When I was Muslim, I read the golden calf story in Surah 20 and never blinked.
The Quran says the man who led Israel into making the golden calf was “as-Samiri.” The Samaritan.
At Mount Sinai. Around 1400 BC.
Here’s the problem: Samaritans did not exist yet. Not for another 700 years.
The Samaritans emerged after the Assyrians conquered northern Israel in 722 BC and foreign settlers mixed into the region of Samaria — a city that itself wasn’t built until 1 Kings 16, centuries after Moses.
You cannot have a Samaritan at Sinai for the same reason you cannot have an American at the fall of Rome.
So how did a Samaritan end up in the Exodus?
By the 7th century AD, Jews and Samaritans had despised each other for centuries.
Jewish polemic blamed Samaritans for idolatry — one later tradition even ties a Samaritan to calf worship.
If you’re composing a story and you need a villain the local Jewish audience will instantly hate, “the Samaritan did it” writes itself.
That’s not the fingerprint of God. That’s the fingerprint of a 7th-century neighborhood feud leaking into “eternal scripture.”
And here’s the JESUS FLIP. Buckle in.
Jesus knew exactly what Samaritans were — hated, half-breed, heretics — and He made one the HERO of His most famous parable.
Then in John 4, He crossed into Samaria on purpose to offer living water to a Samaritan woman with five husbands.
The Quran wrote the Samaritan in as the villain.
Jesus wrote the Samaritan in as the neighbor and friend.
Tell me which one sounds like God.
Praise the Lord Jesus.
@NorthernLassLaw@TRobinsonNewEra Pls dont lie, the Bible and Koran do not tell the same stories…that’s not true, the God of the Bible is different from the Allah of the Koran.
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He endured crucifixion torture and attempts to remove off his Christian tattoos. Now he faces extreme back and urinary pain with no doctor, no
visits, and poor prison conditions. All for converting to Christianity.
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South Africans, how do you turn away a heavily pregnant woman in active labour from a hospital she desperately needs, simply because she’s not South African but another African national living in South Africa
How does refusing urgent help to a pregnant mother align with your values?