Tag: Old Testament

  • Ezekiel 23 And Its Dis­gust­ing Language

    Ezekiel 23 And Its Dis­gust­ing Language

    ​“Does the Bible use lan­guage not fit­ting for God?” This was the ques­tion that a mis­sion­ary rhetor­i­cal­ly posed to his read­ers in an amus­ing but vain attempt to ​“defend” the inap­pro­pri­ate and unnat­ur­al lan­guage of Ezekiel 23. The fun­ny thing that this author have noticed about his whole ​“defense” (and which also prompt­ed this author to write…

  • Sto­ry of Cre­ation in the Qur’an and Old Testament

    Sto­ry of Cre­ation in the Qur’an and Old Testament

    The sto­ry of Cre­ation is locat­ed in the first Book of the Old Tes­ta­ment, i.e. in the ear­ly chap­ters of Gen­e­sis. The Old Tes­ta­ment nar­ra­tive is almost like a sto­ry­book ; hence it starts off with the sto­ry of Cre­ation as the begin­ning of the sto­ry of mankind. The Qur’an gives a dif­fer­ent pre­sen­ta­tion to its idea and…