{"id":478,"date":"2010-11-22T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T12:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contradictingbiblecontradictions.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2016-06-06T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:17:10","slug":"how-old-was-abram-when-ishmael-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contradictingbiblecontradictions.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"How old was Abram when Ishmael was born?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #b22222\">86 years old<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n\t<em>16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.<\/em><br \/>\n\t<strong>NASB&nbsp; Genesis 16:16<\/strong><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #b22222\"><strong>More then 135 years old<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<em>4 Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living.<\/em><br \/>\n\t<strong>NASB&nbsp; Acts 7:4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.<\/em><br \/>\n\t<strong>NASB&nbsp; Genesis 11:26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>32 The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.<\/em><br \/>\n\t<strong>NASB&nbsp; Genesis 11:32<\/strong><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skepticsannotatedbible.com\/contra\/abram_ishmael.html\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>SAB Contradiction 8<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Supposed Bible Contradiction<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Acts 7:4<\/span> says that Abram didn&#39;t leave Haran until after his father died. That happened when Abram was 135 (<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Genesis 11:26, 32<\/span>) and then he left Haran.<br \/>\n\tSo how is it possible that Abram, living in Haran at the same time, had the child named Ishmael in Canaan at the age of 86?<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>No Contradiction at all<\/h3>\n<p>In the former article we have shown that Abram left Haran when he was 75. And so there is no problem with the fact that Ishmael was born in Canaan in the house of Abram, who was then 86 years old.<br \/>\n\tCompare the article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contradictingbiblecontradictions.com\/?p=470\">How old was Abram when he left Haran?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">No Bible Contradiction<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is it possible that Abram, living in Haran at the same time, had the child named Ishmael in Canaan at the age of 86?<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acts-of-the-apostles","category-genesis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contradictingbiblecontradictions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contradictingbiblecontradictions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contradictingbiblecontradictions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contradictingbiblecontradictions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contradictingbiblecontradictions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.contradictingbiblecontradictions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4048,"href":"https:\/\/www.contradictingbiblecontradictions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/4048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contradictingbiblecontradictions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contradictingbiblecontradictions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contradictingbiblecontradictions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}