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Is Becca in the Bible the Mecca?
« on: November 28, 2019, 08:13:16 AM »
https://www.quora.com/Is-Becca-in-the-Bible-the-Mecca

Dear Zahir Omar, Abraham never traveled within 1,000 KM of where Mecca was eventually established in around the 4th century AD. He lived well over a thousand years before overland travel was possible between northern and southern Arabia. There is not a shred of scriptural, historical or archaeological evidence that suggests that Mecca ever even existed before migrants from Yemen initially settled the area in around the 4th century AD, and built their Kaaba in the early 5th century for pagan Arabian moon, sun, star and jinn-devil worship.

The scriptures tell us that Hagar wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba, which is about 20 miles from Abraham’s home in Hebron where Jews, Christians and Muslims visit Abraham’s tomb to this day. That is where hagar found the well to fill her waterskin (likely the “well of seven” that Abraham dug). To suggest that it was the well of Zamzam in Mecca, would be to suggest the absurd notion that Hagar wandered 866 miles (by driving roads today), across harsh, barren, waterless, foodless desert, about 1300 years before overland travel to southern Arabia was possible (~6th century BC).

Additionally you are parroting a falsehood about Psalms 84. The passage is very specific about where the pilgrimage is to.

Psa 84:7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

In ZION. That is the name of the easternmost hill in Jerusalem. The pilgrimage referenced is about Yahweh’s people on pilgrimage to the temple Yahweh had them build on Mt. Moriah in Jerusalem. In THE Holy Land of the prophets and patriarchs. For more try visiting http://www.historyofmecca.com