http://www.answering-christianity.com/paran.htm
Mecca, Bacca and Paran:
Let me paste for you the following Verses from the Bible and the Noble Quran:
"Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. (From the NIV Bible, Psalms 84:5-6)"
Besides apparently not even knowing what version he was quoting from, do we have to wonder why he left out the very next verse, from the same King James Version?
84:7
They go from strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion appeareth before God.Not that it matters what version is being quoted, since they all indicate the pilgrimage was
to Zion. So masters of deception like Ahmed Deedat, his self-described disciple "Dr." Zakir Naik and other dissimulators like Yusuf Estes - all of whom deceive their unsuspecting and trusting Bible-ignorant and geography-challenged adoring minions with this false notion - leave out
the only verse that is germane to the location of the pilgrimage described, which is
IN ZION! In Jerusalem, where YHWH had His people build His temple, on
the temple mount that still stands today. The term for this brand of intentional omission, or concealing the truth while pretending to present it, is
"dissimulation". Which is another way of saying that Muhammad's followers lie in the way of their "Allah". This is a near universal practice when Muhammad's followers present this subject, from their most famous, to their least.
But all a person with the barest hint of cognitive function needs to do, is apply a little common sense to the
immovable, physical, geography, regarding the preposterous claim that Psalms 84 is about the Quraish's Kaaba in Mecca. Are we really expected to believe that YHWH's people turned their backs on their temple that YHWH had them build in Jerusalem, to wander across 1400 kilometers of unexplored, untraveled, uncharted, harsh, dry, waterless, barren desert wasteland, over a thousand years before the historical record informs us a caravan route was established along the Red Sea in Arabia, in order to visit a town in the SW Arabian desert that was not initially settled until 2,000 years later in the
4th century AD? And this presumably so that YHWHs people could march around the Quraish pagan's black stone idol and
5th-century Kaaba seven times, only to wander the 1400 kilometers back to their home in Jerusalem where their own temple was located!
Doesn't that make about as much demographic and geographical sense, as believing that Abraham, Hagar or
Ishmael made the same 1400 kilometer trip across that barren desert, with Abraham dropping them off in an unpopulated desert wasteland, only to wander the 1400 kilometers back home?
http://www.historyofmecca.com/geography_mecca_islam.htm#zamzamThe well that the scriptures inform us the Lord showed to Hagar, was obviously where the scriptures inform us she was wandering, which was in the "
Wilderness of Beersheba".
Which of course makes perfect geographical sense since Beersheba was just south of Abraham's home in Hebron which is just south of Jerusalem. Does it really make sense to the guys at Answering-Christianity that Hagar would have crossed 1400 kilometers of harsh, barren, untraveled, unexplored, waterless desert on a single waterskin, before getting a drink from the well of Zamzam in Mecca?
http://www.historyofmecca.com/baca_mecca.htm
Below is the Temple Mount on which the ONE true God YHWH had His people build His temple.
On which location do you think the one true God would have His people build His temple? On Mt. Moraiah in
THE Holy Land of the prophets and patriarchs, or 2,000 years later, and
1400 kilometers away from THE Holy Land in the SW Arabian desert, for pagan Arabian moon, sun, star and jinn-devil worship?
http://www.petewaldo.com/hajj___umrah.htm#al_safa_al_marwahTo march around the Quraish pagan's black stone idol and
crude unsymmetrical Kaaba that the Arabian pagans cobbled together, that was periodically inundated with urban floodwater, that is always laced with human sewage.
http://www.petewaldo.com/hajj___umrah.htm#kaabaSahih Muslim Book 007, Number 3078:
'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported: Allah's Messenger may peace be upon him) said to me: Had your people not been unbelievers in the recent past (had they not quite recently accepted Islam), I would have demolished the Ka'ba and would have rebuilt it on the foundation (laid) by Ibrahim; for when the Quraish had built the Ka'ba, they reduced its (area), and I would also have built (a door) in the rear.
How can a person's mind come to imagine that YHWH's people, instead of going on pilgrimage to their own temple that YHWH had them build on the temple mount IN ZION, turned their back on their temple to wander across 1400 kilometers of unexplored, untraveled, harsh, dry, waterless, barren desert wasteland, over a thousand years before the historical record informs us a caravan route was established along the Red Sea in Arabia, in order to visit a town in the SW Arabian desert that was not settled until 2,000 years later. And then even if Mecca had existed - which it didn't - only to march around the pagan's kaaba and black stone idol, to then wander the 1400 kilometers across dry desert back up to their own temple, in THE Holy Land of the prophets and patriarchs.
Not surprisingly Muhammad's followers and the Arabian pagans circumambulated the Kaaba shoulder to shoulder right up until the year before Muhammad's last Hajj:
http://www.petewaldo.com/hajj_umrah.htm#twafSahih Bukhari Volume 2, Book 26, Number 689:
Narrated Abu Huraira: In the year prior to the last Hajj of the Prophet when Allahs Apostle made Abu Bakr the leader of the pilgrims, the latter (Abu Bakr) sent me in the company of a group of people to make a public announcement: 'No pagan is allowed to perform Hajj after this year, and no naked person is allowed to perform Tawaf of the Kaba.'Just imagine a bunch of naked Muslims and pagans marching around the Kaaba. Mind you
this was in the 7th century AD, which was about
700 years after an enterprising Greek had invented
the first analog computer. And we're supposed to believe that Muhammad's followers brought other than ignorance, illiteracy, murder, mayhem and misery to wherever they went?
http://www.falseprophetmuhammad.com/jesus_or_muhammad.htm
