From my X / Twitter “Following” feed today -
“The Quran gets its own founding completely wrong. Let me prove it to you:
According to the Quran, Abraham built the Kaaba in Mecca, an event and a place that Genesis never mentions.
Surah 2::227: ‘Abraham and Ishmael raised the foundations of the House,’ the Kaaba, in Mecca. Surah 14:37: Abraham settles Ishmael ‘in an uncultivated valley by Your sacred House.’
According to the Bible, Genesis places Hagar and Ishmael in the wilderness of Beersheba, then Paran. Negev / Sinai, near Canaan. Genesis 21:14-21.
Ishmael grows up there; his mother gets him an Egyptian wife.
No Mecca (over 1,000 km south). No Kaaba or temple-building.
(Fair note: Muslims hold this as a revelation ADDING to Genesis. This is their claim. But the corruption thesis said the Quran CONFIRMS the earlier Scripture, and here, on geography, it doesn’t; it points where Genesis never goes.)
And the real Abraham of Genesis received a promise that wasn’t about a building: ‘In your offspring shall all the NATIONS of the earth be blessed.’ Genesis 22:18.
Not just one nation or one sanctuary.
‘ALL nations.’
‘The blessing of Abraham came to the Gentiles through Jesus Christ.’ Galatians 3:14.
I faced a house for years.
The promise was always pointing to Jesus, through whom the blessing reached even a former Muslim like me.”
The Quran gets its own founding completely wrong. Let me prove it to you: According to the Quran, Abraham builds the Kaaba in Mecca, an event and a place that Genesis never mentions. Surah 2:127: “Abraham and Ishmael raised the foundations of the House”, the Kaaba, in Mecca.
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