Why the inconsistency ?
I use the Quran as the template. If it is in the Quran .........
The heavily abrogated STAND-ALONE 23-year record of a SINGLE, 7th century SW Arabian desert dwelling illiterate.
........ and the bible then those verses of the bible are pure.
The 1600 year record of the one true God YHWH to mankind, as revealed through ALL of His prophets and witnesses, that His people have followed through two covenants, for 3500 years.
Example
The Quran speaks of Ishmael the baby leaving with Hagar and going to Paran by the will of God.
And excellent example! Of what can only be called Islamic "tradition" because it was all penned in the 7th to 10th centuries AD, without reference to any actual historical record that precedes the 5th century AD.
Yet Islamic so-called "tradition" masquerades as a 4500 year pre-Muhammad historical record.
Let alone that there is not a shred of EVIDENCE that suggests that Mecca ever existed before pagan immigrants from Yemen settled the area in about the 4th century AD, and built their kaaba in the early 5th century AD for pagan Arabian moon, sun, star and jinn-devil worship, and veneration of 360 idols. This while other ancient Arabian towns are very well attested in the historical and archaeological records of Arabia.
THE HISTORY OF MECCA
And of course you believe Paran to have been where Mecca is, because Hagar and Ishmael are supposed to have gotten water from the well of Zamzam (that Muhammad's grandfather Abdel Mutaleb dug to establish a Hajj around the Arabian jinn-devil religion and the two idols he placed on al-Safa and al-Marwah).
HAJJ & UMRAH
Here is a sample Islamic site on the matter:
"Abraham took Hagar and her son, Ishmael to a place near the Kabah; he left them under a tree at the site of Zamzam. No one lived in Makkah back then, yet Abraham made them sit there, leaving them with some dates, and a small water-skin. Thereafter he set out towards home."
OK now let's look at a map:
Muslims recognize Abraham lived in Hebron, where so-called "Palestinians" (Israeli Muslims) control, and continue to desecrate Abraham's grave to this day.
Ishmael lived sometime around 1800 BC. Prior to Ishmael, by 2,000 BC, Arabia had been reduced to a desertified, unexplored, untraveled, uncharted barren desert wasteland, over 500 years before camel transport, or even a road, were ever established. History tells us that overland travel along the Red Sea in Arabia was not established until around the 6th to 8th century BC. Even Medina wasn't established until around the 6th century BC. Prior to that time spices from Yemen moved to the north by ship. A Saudi site further informs us that even the advent of camel caravan transport, didn't occur until around 1,000 to 1,100 BC.
So why don't you explain to us how Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael, wandered across 1400 kilometers of uncharted untraveled desert wasteland from Hebron, to arrive at one of the driest places that even Arabia has to offer - dropped Hagar and Ishmael off and then wandered the 1400 kilometers back to his
WIFE Sarah in Hebron - and all about 2400 years before the historical record tells us Mecca ever existed. What did they eat? What did they drink?
The bible speaks of 17 year old boy being exiled by the will of Sarah. Unfortunately the scribes that inserted theses verses did not clean up the actual exile which speaks of a child or boy.
Have a look at this nice image from the biblical encyclopedia
Genesis 21 Bible Pictures: Hagar and Ishmael leave Abram
Scribes even today are trying to change the verses to portray a young adult being exiled but the truth is evident they refer to a child.
You blaspheme the perfectly reasonable historical account found in scripture, that is ever increasingly supported by archaeology, and perfectly within the bounds of geography, for the preposterous fables and pure fiction of Islamic so-called "tradition" that was all created and put to the pen in the 7th to 10th centuries AD by a bunch of semi-literate SW Arabian desert dwellers. Shame on you.
