Prophet Abraham (pbuh) and his visitors

Please compare and contrast:

The Koran says: 11.69 " There came Our messengers to Abraham with glad tidings (that he will have a son, Isaac, and grand son, Jacob). They said, "Peace!" He answered, "Peace!" and hastened to entertain them with a roasted calf. "

11.70 "" But when he saw their hands went not towards the (meal), he felt some anxiety and conceived fear of them. They said: "Fear not: We have been sent (by God) against the people of Lot. ""

While in the Holy Scriptures:

Genesis 18:6-8 "" And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hastened to dress it. And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. ""

1. The Holy Koran confirms the story of the Angel visitors to Abraham and Lot. They came in the Garb of human beings, but the Al-Mighty God was not one of the visitors, because God is omnipresent, (He is always with us, but He is Transcendental we cannot see Him). God does not need to personify himself; whenever He wants anything to exist, He simply says: "Be!" and there it is!

2. The contemporary medical science-Biology and Physiology-confirms the fact that the "Human Body" is made (by God) from the elements of the Earth; so it is terrestrial, made of calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, iodine... etc. in balanced proportions, according to precise scale fixed by our Creator. So the human body miraculously craves for these elements which are provided to it by the earth produce: vegetables, fruits, meat, seeds (corn and wheat etc..) the human body becomes hungry and thirsty, and it dies if it does not eat food and drink water so as to get these essential elements to flow in its blood stream, which is the "River of Life", WE EAT TO LIVE!....Don't we?

But the bodies of the Three Visitors of Abraham and Lot are not made of the earth elements, they (The Visitors) are not terrestrial, the are Celestial -made of light- They do not crave for our food to keep them alive! Does Our Creator, The Almighty God, need to eat our food in order to keep Himself alive? Do the Angels need to eat our food in order to keep themselves alive? Use your common sense and judge for yourself whether this story is the genuine word of God in the Holy Bible?

This story about Our Creator and His angels eating meat and bread is a fiction inserted in to the Holy Bible by a human hand. It is not a revelation by God; it is an obvious interpolation and distortion! It degrades Our Creator and His Angels to an animal status-needing to eat the produce of our earth in order to live !!

Our Creator, the Almighty God, is portrayed in Genesis 18: 20 as a human being- Likened to a manager of a department or organization, who 'heard' (from someone else) complaints that his subordinates (employees), the people of Sodom and Gomorra, are doing bad deeds; but He was not sure enough of what He had heard; so He decided to go down himself to the earth ( in the disguise of a human being) just to check on them, and see if they are indeed as bad as He had heard! If not, He would know that.!

Isn't such a description of Our Creator, Almighty God, a Blasphemy? Use your common sense and judge for yourself!

Our Creator is described in the Holy Koran as: The Omnipresent, The Omnipotent, The omniscient. Please read carefully the following Koranic verses that describe God:

50.16 "" It was We Who created man, and We know what goes on his mind and soul; : for We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. ""

2.284 "" To God belongeth all that is in the heavens and on earth. Whether ye show what is in your minds or conceal it, God Calleth you to account for it. He forgiveth whom He pleaseth, and punisheth whom He pleaseth, for God hath power over all things. ""

4.126 "" To God belong all things in the heavens and on earth: And He, it is that Encompasseth all things. ""

40.19 "" God knows the slightest betrayal of an eye (if lustfully it glances at a taboo), and all that the heart of man conceals.""

6.103 "" No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision: He is above all comprehension, yet is acquainted with all things.""

We Muslims, never bear any grudge or hatred against any of the former Divine Messages; on the contrary, we highly respect and sanctify them, because they are, like our Holy Koran, delivered from the same fountain head ( OUR CREATOR), but we deny and reject any "interpolation" and "Distortion" to be inserted into the HOLY BIBLE as a genuine doctrine of God!!


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