Hm, I didn't see your reply til today.
That's a pretty interesting find and quite damning of Islam. That is to say, of it's claim of scriptural purity.
I'm not sure if it's damning yet, gotta be sure which one came first
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I came across another instance of this, which I think we already discussed, which is the suspicious similarity to the story of Abraham in Genesis, chapter 18, verses 22-33 to the story of Muhammad bargaining with Allah to reduce the number of prayers Muslims have to pray.
It (Abraham's bargaining for Sodom) is in the Qur'an, but there is only a scant reference to it.
Then... he (Abraham) began to plead with Us for the people of Lot.
Ibn Kathir says,
It is mentioned by Sa'eed bin Jubair, Suddi, Ibn Is-haq and Qatadah:
Ibrahim said to them, "Will you destroy a town that has three hundred believers in it?'' They (the angels) said, "No."
(With the addition of "Two hundred?" in Qisas Al-Anbiya (Stories of the Prophets))
He then said, "Will you destroy a town that has two hundred believers in it'?' They said, "No.''
He said, "Will you destroy a town that has forty believers in it'?' They said, "No.''
He then said, "Thirty?'' ("Fourteen?" in Qisas) They still replied, "No.''
This continued until he said, "Five'?' They said, "No.''
Then he said, "What if there were a single believer in the town, would you destroy it?'' They said, "No.''
With this, Ibrahim said, "But Lot is in it." They said, "We know better who is there, we will verily save him and his family, except his wife..." Qur'an 29:32
He then goes on to quote from Genesis, which many dislike for his quoting the Jews all the time (them and their corrupt scripture!
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I think these things are part of what makes religion so interesting: seeing how different ideas and stories and theological points are transmitted by different people and manifest themselves in different ways in different religions, and even within different sects of the same religion.
Yup.
Topic: Khidr / Elijah