Recall Abraham

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This is a bizarre set of circumstances. In essence, this means the descendants fighting today are related, and have been killing each other for a very long time over the interpretation surrounding God and his promise to Abraham, who was a Jew.

You have to be on the important people list when you are prominently mentioned in the oppositions bible. Abraham along with Jesus is mentioned in all three major religious publications, the Bible, Torah and Koran.

“Recall Abraham was put to the test by his Lord, through certain commands. And he fulfilled them. (God) said “I am appointing you an Imam (leader or role model) for the people”.

Every family has its secrets, Mohammad’s began with the covenant between Abraham and God, where promises made on behalf of the Jewish
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It had to be rough for Abraham, he has faith in God, but to keep the peace became intimate with Hagar, his wife’s maid. He ultimately banished Hagar and Ishmael and this starts to set the stage for a lot of hatred and animosity for future generations on both sides.

For anyone who has ever been to a major desert, it's a desolate place to be on your own, even worse with a child. Survival would be bleak at best.

Unless you believe in huge coincidences, you have to go with God in this scenario, God leaves nothing to chance, meaning there are no coincidences.

God showed mercy to Hagar and Ishmael and guided them out of their plight and delivered them to a region where Ishmael married and did well enough to have twelve children. Ishmael a prominent person is mentioned in the Bible and Qur’an.

The two major publications of the day have two different stories to tell. The Hebrew Torah claims that the covenant that grants them Palestine as a homeland went to Abraham’s heir through Sarah, Issac.
The Muslim version disagrees and sees Ishmael as the true heir. Its a tricky situation, both sides have a legitimate

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