For example in the Koran it says Abraham offered his son and the Bible Abraham offers Issac
but today most Muslims feel without scriptural support it was not Isaac but Ishmael. So why might that be
Are there similar issues, things feel strongly about not really spoken to the way moderns do?
Are there other cases where an oral tradition (like Abraham offering Ismael) trumps something written by Moses (Abraham offering Isaac) ?
Oral tradition of men?
It's amazing to me that people can be so dogmatic about so many beliefs, especially in Christianity, that do not originate in the Bible except by inference or implication.
My former religion taught that God was a trinity....there is no trinity in the Bible. Neither the Jews nor the early Christians taught that Jesus was part of a triune godhead....yet it has become a principle doctrine.
They taught about eternal torture in hell.....the Bible's hell is merely the grave. No one suffers in Sheol or hades. It is a place of rest.
They said that when you die, your soul goes either to heaven or hell....there is no such teaching in the Bible. The only choice God's people were offered was life or death. Adam was simply told that he would return to the dust....nothing more. Our "soul" is us....the living, breathing human creature. The word never describes a separate invisible part of man, but the living fleshly organism...of both man and animal.
They celebrated pagan holidays, (Christmas and Easter) when Christians are told not to mix true worship with false worship. One contaminates the other.
They supported the wars of the nations when Jesus said we cannot be part of the world and its political squabbles and bloodshed. He told us to love our enemies.
These are the teachings that forced me to abandon Christendom altogether. They all taught the same things under different banners.
