How Ironic ?!?

zam

Life is full of irony....lest name some... 💡

For instance we call Israel "The Holy land" (I shrink to my seat whenever our priest say it in prayer)

sage_amp_onion

Life is full of irony....lest name some... 💡

For instance we call Israel "The Holy land" (I shrink to my seat whenever our priest say it in prayer)

As a matter of interest, what would you call it?

zam

Life is full of irony....lest name some... 💡

For instance we call Israel "The Holy land" (I shrink to my seat whenever our priest say it in prayer)

As a matter of interest, what would you call it?

If I am an arab, I will call it "Land of the Outcast" 😳

sage_amp_onion

Life is full of irony....lest name some... 💡

For instance we call Israel "The Holy land" (I shrink to my seat whenever our priest say it in prayer)

As a matter of interest, what would you call it?

If I am an arab, I will call it "Land of the Outcast" 😳

Interesting, and who will be the outcast ❓

freza

It's called The Holy Land, because it's the birth place of Abraham, the spiritual "father" of all three major religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It also holds a special "holiness" to Chrisitians because Jesus was born and died there.

sage_amp_onion

It's called The Holy Land, because it's the birth place of Abraham, the spiritual "father" of all three major religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It also holds a special "holiness" to Chrisitians because Jesus was born and died there.

Correct, however still waiting for Zam to come back

mraph33

It's called The Holy Land, because it's the birth place of Abraham

Actaully it isn't. He was born in Ur, which is somewhere around the Syria/Iraq/Turkey border. But he did die in Israel.

shafique

Mraph - you beat me to the explanation that Abraham was an Iraqi (on today's map). 🙂

zam

It's called The Holy Land, because it's the birth place of Abraham, the spiritual "father" of all three major religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It also holds a special "holiness" to Chrisitians because Jesus was born and died there.

Correct, however still waiting for Zam to come back

What Freza said is all true...still it gives me a chill when I hear it in church...can you blame me? 🙄

zam

Life is full of irony....lest name some... 💡

For instance we call Israel "The Holy land" (I shrink to my seat whenever our priest say it in prayer)

As a matter of interest, what would you call it?

If I am an arab, I will call it "Land of the Outcast" 😳

Interesting, and who will be the outcast ❓

Who else? 🙁

freza

You guys are right, Abraham was not born in the Holy Land, though he died there. Abraham's immigration to the Holy Land is the significant factor in fulfilling God's decrees. However, exact birth place is still not known, but rather the attributed place of birth is more in the following of tradition. It is believed to be in modern day Iraq but some people also believe that it is in modern day Turkey. The search for the exact location of Abraham's birth place still continues for some scholars.