Re: the difference between isaac and ishmael

Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar [Hagar]. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above us is free, which is the mother of us all


Untwisted in a clearer translation: For it is written that abraham had two sons, one by a female servant, the other by a free woman, but he who was of the female servant was born according to the flesh and he of the free woman through promise. THis is allegorical, for these are the two covenants one indeed from Mt sinai which brings forth slavery which is Hagar. for this Hagar is Mt Sinai in arabia and corresponds to Yerushalayim which now is and is in slavery with her children...

So in Galatians 4:22-25 apostle said that the people described are not people but allegory

Allegory: a narrative in which abstract ideas are personified, a description which is meant to convey a different meaning than what seems to be expressed.


The story is allegory by the bibles own admission. Shame that either religions use it to discriminate when Hagar is not a person but a symbol.

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