199. Did God actually turn people into apes for breaking the sabbath?
the Bible No
Yes the Quran
the Bible's Perspective
1 Timothy 1:4and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith.
1 Timothy 4:7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself towards godliness.
2 Timothy 4:4and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.
Titus 1:14not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
2 Peter 1:16For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
the Quran's Perspective
Al-Baqara (The Cow) 2:65-66And ye know of those of you who broke the Sabbath, how We said unto them: Be ye apes, despised and hated! And We made it an example to their own and to succeeding generations, and an admonition to the Allah-fearing.
Notes
Yusuf Ali in his translation, The Meaning of the Holy Qur’an, admits that this is only a fable: p. 34, footnote 79.
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