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To: muawiyah

"Ismael, unfortunately (from the Moslem point of view) was displaced from his status as First Born by Isaac because his mother was only a servant and not a true wife as was Sarah."


Which is interesting, because biologically, he's still Abraham's first-born.


40 posted on 04/02/2005 7:07:26 PM PST by Blzbba (Don't hate the player - hate the game!)
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To: Blzbba
Which is interesting, because biologically, he's still Abraham's first-born.

You're exactly right. But Ishmael was not the child of the promise. That was Isaac.

The LORD told Abraham and Sarah that they will have a child. Only Isaac fulfilled that promise because he was sired in the union of Abraham and Sarah.

Abraham sired Ishmael but that was only of the flesh.


50 posted on 04/02/2005 7:38:48 PM PST by rdb3 (To the world, you're one person. To one person, you may be the world.)
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To: Blzbba

God also slighted the first born in the case of Easau and Jacob.


55 posted on 04/02/2005 7:49:14 PM PST by mercy (never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over a year now)
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