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Exploding The Myth That Islam Is An Abrahamic Religion
American Thinker ^ | 03//2024 | Sha'i ben-Tekoa

Posted on 03/21/2024 6:51:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Gods of Political Correctness dictate that all religions are of equal worth; that there are “…three great Abrahamic religions,” and “The Arabs are Semites too, so they can’t be anti-Semites.” All three of these sacred cow clichés need to be slaughtered on the altar of truth.

While Christianity and Islam are both offshoots of the Jews and took from them the concept of having one’s own holy writ, their self-definitions as new faith communities were radically different. The Koine Greek language narratives that Christians append to their version of the Hebrew Bible purport to be a continuation of Jewish history. The Catholic Church even defines itself in Latin as Verus Israel , the True Israel.

But Muslims do not claim this. On the contrary, the Koran plagiarized many of the stories in the Hebrew Bible but always with changes, and when a Muslim is asked to explain the different versions of the same stories, he will say the Jews stole them from Islam.

When asked to explain how this theft happened since the former text came into the world in the year 1313 BCE at Mt. Sinai and the latter over 2,000 years later, in the late 7th and early 8th centuries, the Muslims say that Musa (the Arabic mispronunciation of the Hebrew name Mosheh ) brought the Koran down from Mt. Sinai—not the Torah as the Jews believe. And then, down below, the evil Jews snatched it away from Musa and re-wrote it and called it their Torah. When Muhammad came along, he restored the original text, today’s Koran.

Image: Abraham sending away Hagar and Ishmael by Georg Pencz. Public domain.

In Islam’s universe, the Jews’ Torah is a stolen, plagiarized version of Muslim scripture...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: History; Islam; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: abraham; abrahamicreligions; islam; myth; owen
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1 posted on 03/21/2024 6:51:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

In Islam’s universe, the Jews’ Torah is a stolen, plagiarized version of Muslim scripture—which resonates with the contemporary charge that the Jews also allegedly stole Filistin (i.e., Palestine) from the indigenous, putatively primeval Palestinian people.

As for the cliché that Islam is an Abrahamic religion, this is a head-on collision with the Biblical text. The greatest authority on what is Abrahamic was Abraham himself, who accepted that he had to expel his first-born son Ishmael from his family, community, and country because he was not at all “Abrahamic,” like his father.

To Jews, Abraham was the kindest man in the world, which is probably why God chose him. For the religious revolution that Abraham ignited (ethical monotheism) was not only the concept of one God but a kind God—versus the capricious, cruel, and often immoral gods in pagan pantheons.


2 posted on 03/21/2024 6:51:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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3 posted on 03/21/2024 6:55:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That is a stupid point to argue. What you should be talking about is that Judaism and Christianity are religions where people have a relationship with God. The OT is full of stories where even Abraham and Moses argued and negotiated with God. The NT is all about the intimate relationship of living with God in you.

Islam is about Submission to an Unknowable God.


4 posted on 03/21/2024 6:57:47 AM PDT by MMusson
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To: SeekAndFind
Wow

The title is spot-on. It IS a myth.

THIS myth WILL BE (IMHO)a MAJOR selling point of the Antichist and the False Prophet

It's not called "The Abraham Accords" by accident.

No I don't know that he's (JK) the guy.

I'm just telling the world 🌏🌎🌍 be ready for what comes in the 7 years of 'Peace and Security' - it WILL NOT be stopped; all the way to Armageddon.

Mockers and Scoffers may not believe it now; some will; once it starts.

Saved from the Blinken thread - posted for THIS thread - a warning to the world 🌎🌏🌍

(unveiled his grand plan for Middle East peace: a Palestinian state.)

One of these days....it's actually going to happen.

The man who confirms the 7-year Covenant of 'Peace and Security' (Daniel 9:27) will be the Antichrist. The "instead-of" or "counterfeit messiah" prophesied in Revelation chapter 13 and 2nd Thessalonians 2:8-12 (and elsewhere in the Bible).




5 posted on 03/21/2024 6:59:17 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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While Christianity and Islam are both offshoots of the Jews

Hmmm. Well its true to say that Christianity might be an offshoot of Second Temple Judaism, so is the modern Rabbinic Judaism of today. Neither are the kind of Judaism of Jesus's day when the rituals outlined in the Torah were carried out in the Temple.

The New Testament is every bit as Jewish as that Talmud--and it was written earlier.

6 posted on 03/21/2024 7:01:29 AM PDT by AndyTheBear (Certified smarter than average for my species)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yet the Dead Sea scrolls dare 900 years before any historical mention of the Koran.


7 posted on 03/21/2024 7:01:58 AM PDT by circlecity
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Yep. Christianity was the natural conclusion of what Judaism was always working to. Like the caterpillar to the butterfly.


8 posted on 03/21/2024 7:04:06 AM PDT by circlecity
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Only Christianity is true. Everything else is a false religion.


9 posted on 03/21/2024 7:07:28 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Jesus told the parable of The Wineskins and the Patched Coat to explain it all..............


10 posted on 03/21/2024 7:08:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MMusson
Islam is about Submission to an Unknowable God.

Oh, I think we all know who the god of Islam is.

11 posted on 03/21/2024 7:09:51 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it woill defend itself.)
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LET'S GET THE TRUTH OUT THERE!!

Historical and biblical truth - The “Palestinian refugees” are neither Palestinian nor refugees.

Here are the facts! https://www.frontpagemag.com/__trashed-14/

12 posted on 03/21/2024 7:10:56 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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(Oh, I think we all know who the god of Islam is.)

Winner 🏆🏆🏆.

And he has no son. According to their own writings.


13 posted on 03/21/2024 7:12:58 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

aw jeez, not this shiite again?


14 posted on 03/21/2024 7:17:38 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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THIS myth WILL BE (IMHO)a MAJOR selling point of the Antichist and the False Prophet

I found all I needed to know when I saw the timeline of events associated with the mahdi. It's almost EXACTLY the timeline of events we associate with the antichrist. Either we stole it from them (which I don't believe), or they stole it from us (which I think is possible), or they're BOTH true, and their mahdi is our antichrist.
15 posted on 03/21/2024 7:19:26 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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I believe that the Antichrist will be a world 🌍🌎 political leader hailed as a messiah

I believe that the False Prophet will be a world 🌎🌍 “religious” leader who will appear to be “christian” (small “C” on purpose)

They may accept one or the other as “Mahdi”

Time will tell.

They believe he is down deep in a well behind the Jamkaran Mosque in the city of Qom, Iran.


16 posted on 03/21/2024 7:27:37 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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How can you guys not see it.

THE MEDIA HAS BEEN GIVEN MARCHING ORDERS. It is all about elevating Republican visibility of being anti Muslim.

TRUMP CAN WIN MICHIGAN IF WE STOP SIGNING ONTO THE MEDIA’S AGENDA.

Stop with this idiocy. Drain the Swamp is ALL IMPORTANT.


17 posted on 03/21/2024 7:31:34 AM PDT by Owen (.)
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To: SeekAndFind

BTTT


18 posted on 03/21/2024 7:47:05 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: SeekAndFind

You don’t need to be religious to see a telling difference between Christianity and Islam, a difference that cannot hide the negatives of Islam even today.

The prime figure in Christianity is Yeshua (Jesus) Christ, the Messiah, who in his sojourn on earth refused to allow his followers to take up the sword in his name, not even to defend him.

The prime firgue in Islam is a man who went to war against any and all in Arabia who would not go along with him, and who sanctioned such war against all non-Muslims; a call which his followers immediately took up, all across the Middle East, and beyond.

Even if one is not religious, there is no moral or ethical grounds to follow the latter example, or his cause.


19 posted on 03/21/2024 9:16:48 AM PDT by Wuli (ena)
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Islam was created as a war plan response to Christianity’s ascendancy. It is designed to destroy Christianity and its Judaistic roots.

It is the definition of “Antichrist” religion by stating unequivocally that…

“GOD HAS NO SON!”
20 posted on 03/21/2024 9:50:11 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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