The holiest of Islam's two yearly holidays is Eid al-Adha; in Arabic, “the feast of the sacrifice.” This week, on August 21, Muslims worldwide slaughtered sheep, remembering how God saved Abraham from sacrificing his son Ishmael.
Wait, Ishmael? Not Isaac?
Though the Qur‘an doesn't name the son, Muslims believe it was the ancestor of the Arabs that God used to test Abraham's faith. Should Christians understand this as a theological error? Or an outright lie?
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