Ra's claim that 'the island was supposed to sink' is not in the text — Ra added that detail to the prophecy; Ezekiel says the city's materials would be cast into the water, not that the island would sink.

Ezekiel never says the island will sink beneath the sea. The text says the stones, timber, and soil of the city will be thrown into the water — which is exactly what Alexander did with mainland Tyre's rubble to build the causeway. Ra's framing of this prophecy as 'the island was supposed to sink and it didn't' is an addition to the text, not a reading of it. Winger argues this is characteristic of Ra's approach: assert a bold claim about what the Bible says, then show it didn't happen, without actually checking whether the Bible said that.