• Dem Bosain@midwest.social
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    3 days ago

    The most important question: which child did he try to kill? Was it Isaac, the son he fathered with his barren wife? Or was it Ishmael, the son he fathered with his wife’s handmaiden?

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      Adam and Eve were the first humans.
      They beget Cain and Abel.
      Cain kills Abel.
      Then he wanders around, meets his wife and builds a city ???
      Most of the bible makes no sense, except in a symbolic way.

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      In Islam, iirc, it’s Ishmael. Islam traces a lot back to Hagar and Ishmael - one of the stops on the Hajj is the spring that God made to keep Hagar alive when Sarah drove her out.