Genesis

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NASB	Genesis 21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
AMPLIFIED 2015 2015	Genesis 21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

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Bible Question: Gen 16:12 "He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone, And everyone's hand will be against him; And he will live to the east of all his brothers."

Examination of this prohecy concerning Ishmael would be coherent to what we are seeing concerning the Muslim/Islamic world which will not live peacefully with its internal or external neighbors. Infidels, Christians and Jews...Buddhists and Hindu, have the hand of Jihad against them. And it appears that the Qu'ran trumps up the relationship between Ishmael and Abraham, to be something greater than what I can find it to be other than animous, in order to lend credibility to Islam to be anything more than that of a plaintiff "Me Too" inclusionary cry from the elder son of Abraham.

Therefore I take this to be a prophecy of Islam as we see it today with the head being in Mecca to the east. The Muslim Faithful all bow to the east in prayer towards Mecca to further solidify my thoughts on this verse.

I can only conclude that Ishmael is the legitimate father of Islam because of the root sin in which Abraham did not wait on God to fulfill His promise. Can I be dissuaded?

Bible Answer: First Islam didn't exist until about 610-620 AD which is approx 2600 years after Ishmael.
While Islam claims it's heritage is in Ishmael little can be proved that Mohammed was a descendant. Remember there were many tribes in the region before Ishmael and a lot of interbreeding between them. Mohammed lineage is Bedouin and does not seem to be from Ishmael as such but since many of these tribes didn't keep any accounting of ancestry so it can't be fully determined.

It is totally possible the many of Ishmael’s offspring are Islamic, but there are many other tribes and people groups that also make up Islam.

In any case Islam claims they are the son of promise and that Jews have corrupted the scriptures in a way that it makes it look like God called Isaac the son of promise. Total nonsense.

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