[BlueDragon]

Don't you agree that the Muslims hold many distorted beliefs and wrong concepts about the Creator of all things of whom they speak?

I think you described it well. There was one biblical figure left out of your list that is significant to Islam. They put that person, a son after the manner of flesh, a literal bastard, in the place of the son after the manner of promise.

I'll put a link here to Genesis 22 though I'm confident that you know that story.

For centuries, the Muslims have contended the scripture was changed. It's a nonsensical claim, for there are more than enough existing copies of Genesis which pre-exist Muhammed by centuries.

The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance For Understanding ... By James VanderKam, Peter Flint page 104

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thank you, Blue Dragon. Your post #31 was exactly right.

[Cronos]

What is interesting is that for 2000 years before Mohammed, no-one contended that it was Ishmael, not Isaac.

In Mohammed's time there were plenty of Jews in the Nejd and Medina was a Jewish city. He caught upon this idea of using Ishmael to rally together the various Bedouins...