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tkthafm wrote:Note that I said empirical evidence when talking about the preservation of the Qur'an. As for that, there is plenty, even from secular scholars.This debate is informative/also entertaining: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWK1xv0Bt-A (entire channel has plenty of nice vids)Now, more importantly, as for why I personally believe... there are many angles to look at it from.The literary/linguistic perfection and miracles of the Qur'an (Ofc. knowing Arabic helps but not essential):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaS5NsvZ4yM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWFIS0LCKy0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIOUo0u8eaw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNu3huTMFmA http://www.linguisticmiracle.com/ The scientific...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5h6CNhtVls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoNEfuEWtXc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiLBGHwX_4c http://quranandscience.com/quran-a-science.html http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/scientific_index.html The historical/prophetic...http://www.quranmiracles.com/category/archaeology/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKcsgnoKKTI The Prophet's character/biography...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o8UmErRVZk misc...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCgj6p3JTLghttp://thedeenshow.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2sa5ymA8SE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Hr1_LB3Io http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSI4LyIlNIQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rOn4vYwa0w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOwA0v026wY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3eJKDmyXrk&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktq_Nz_ABI8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pESXwJYYcGo&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVdkdjzY2Xs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zor1et-rT8c These are just some aspects (tried to choose vids/shorter writings rather than books), and along with the overall message (ofc reading the entire Qur'an http://quran.com/ for yourself is important)/personal experiences are some of the reasons I personally believe. I can't fathom how it would have been possible for an illiterate man 1400+ years ago to have produced the Qur'an (or copied/stole it etc as some falsely claim) and yet it is free from any errors/contradictions... literally sets the standard for the Arabic language, and in fact fixes the errors in other religious texts, and contains various scientific/historical information that was unknown at the time etc. This illiterate man single-handedly changes his entire society in just 23 years (and soon after, much of the world) and Islam continues to have tremendous growth (as prophesized) until this day where it is the fastest growing religion and the only religion where millions have memorized the holy book word for word (God himself stated he would make it easily memorized) and the only holy book that was perfectly preserved (again, God himself stated he would protect the book from human changes). No societies on Earth matched the fairness/justice seen under the first four Caliphs. Also, the beauty of the religion itself. Nothing, no other religion is comparable. For example, Hajj is unparalleled anywhere else in humanity. Literally millions from every country in the world gather together in peace in one place regardless of race/language etc to worship one God, as they do in their respective homes 5 times a day everyday. All the elements of practice/worship are perfection to me and vastly superior to any other religion/methodology, even the simple/overlooked things like the importance of manners & hygiene etc. I don't think this is all coincidence, or the fact that Muslims are THE most religious/faithful/pious of any other group on Earth...http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/03/conflict-theology-and-history-make-muslims-more-religious-than-others-experts-say/. I very actively seek out all alternative explanations/criticisms/attacks/refutations etc and I find absolutely nothing that changes my mind, but my faith only increases. If there is any religion from God, it must clearly be Islam. It covers every aspect of life from the very simple to theology to political/social structure etc. I don't see how a human/humans could have formed the Qur'an/Islam. Ofc there will always be an element of faith, but view/read these materials with an open mind/heart/sincerity and reflect deeply on things, look for errors/contradictions and do your own research (as the Qur'an itself commands us to do so in numerous instances) compare Islam to all other faiths/systems (including secular ones) and come to your own conclusions, however long it takes you.
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tkthafm wrote:There's no proof the Qur'an was human created or edited..
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RKO2004 wrote:sillyputty wrote:Lets be honest here.If you all have a problem with me faking being religious, for a moment, when my life is being threatened, how is that ANY different from you thinking you can believe, for a lifetime, because you don't want to go to hell or be punished?Do you think you can fool an all-knowing god by believing in it, only to avoid punishment?...unless you're not a total believer... ...This is why Pascal's Wager (i.e. "better to believe than to not") fails.Putty it doesn't work like that for anyone.
sillyputty wrote:Lets be honest here.If you all have a problem with me faking being religious, for a moment, when my life is being threatened, how is that ANY different from you thinking you can believe, for a lifetime, because you don't want to go to hell or be punished?Do you think you can fool an all-knowing god by believing in it, only to avoid punishment?...unless you're not a total believer... ...This is why Pascal's Wager (i.e. "better to believe than to not") fails.
Believer or not. God judges your heart.
You can say in your last minute of life "Jesus is my lord and savior and I have 100% faith in God!" and I don't think it will change much.
Its like if you were a rapper. Some of your friends tail off and stop believing in your ability to make it. Then one day you get your big break and they all come running back around. You're going to ask them where they were during the times where you were down and could have used their support.
God knows who you are through the smiles and sad faces.
He sees through your works and your words.
If your are truly about that life. He'll know. A fair amount of people will not enter the his kingdom.
A fair amount of those people may be lifetime church goers. Just like a Husband can spend 50 years with his wife and cheat on her and not sell out to her.
So can a 50 year church goer cheat on God so to speak.
RKO2004 wrote:AntonLaVey wrote:RKO2004 wrote:Putty it doesn't work like that for anyone. Believer or not. God judges your heart.You can say in your last minute of life "Jesus is my lord and savior and I have 100% faith in God!" and I don't think it will change much. Its like if you were a rapper. Some of your friends tail off and stop believing in your ability to make it. Then one day you get your big break and they all come running back around. You're going to ask them where they were during the times where you were down and could have used their support.God knows who you are through the smiles and sad faces. He sees through your works and your words. If your are truly about that life. He'll know. A fair amount of people will not enter the his kingdom. A fair amount of those people may be lifetime church goers. Just like a Husband can spend 50 years with his wife and cheat on her and not sell out to her. So can a 50 year church goer cheat on God so to speak.If God judges your heart you then most Christians are burning in hell for all eternity like Putty and I, FACTWithout fear, Christianity would lose most of its followers, you can deny it all you want but it's the truthQuick tid bit about myself. I don't believe because I don't want to go to hell.
AntonLaVey wrote:RKO2004 wrote:Putty it doesn't work like that for anyone. Believer or not. God judges your heart.You can say in your last minute of life "Jesus is my lord and savior and I have 100% faith in God!" and I don't think it will change much. Its like if you were a rapper. Some of your friends tail off and stop believing in your ability to make it. Then one day you get your big break and they all come running back around. You're going to ask them where they were during the times where you were down and could have used their support.God knows who you are through the smiles and sad faces. He sees through your works and your words. If your are truly about that life. He'll know. A fair amount of people will not enter the his kingdom. A fair amount of those people may be lifetime church goers. Just like a Husband can spend 50 years with his wife and cheat on her and not sell out to her. So can a 50 year church goer cheat on God so to speak.If God judges your heart you then most Christians are burning in hell for all eternity like Putty and I, FACTWithout fear, Christianity would lose most of its followers, you can deny it all you want but it's the truth
RKO2004 wrote:Putty it doesn't work like that for anyone. Believer or not. God judges your heart.You can say in your last minute of life "Jesus is my lord and savior and I have 100% faith in God!" and I don't think it will change much. Its like if you were a rapper. Some of your friends tail off and stop believing in your ability to make it. Then one day you get your big break and they all come running back around. You're going to ask them where they were during the times where you were down and could have used their support.God knows who you are through the smiles and sad faces. He sees through your works and your words. If your are truly about that life. He'll know. A fair amount of people will not enter the his kingdom. A fair amount of those people may be lifetime church goers. Just like a Husband can spend 50 years with his wife and cheat on her and not sell out to her. So can a 50 year church goer cheat on God so to speak.
I believe because I feel there is something greater for us all beyond what we see and live.
No I wouldn't want to be without God, so I try to form a greater bond with him and continue to work on obeying his laws.
So yeah, I fear God and fear being outside of his presence in the afterlife.
Its the fear I had for my mother and grandparents. Its a respect fear. Without respect, where would we be?
Without the fear of going to jail and being punished, how many more criminals would we have?
It is what it is in terms of how I'm viewed and depicted.
But I really do love God and have faith that there is something greater awaiting after this world. This is a very dark world no matter how bright that sun is.
tkthafm wrote:Go easy on the Christians....It's been near two thousand years and they still can't reconcile the concept of God supposedly being 3 yet 1 at the same time inb4 1+1+1 = 1
OnTheNephs wrote:No one benefits anything from these threads, as it has been said a hundred times, I do enjoy them though.
Putty why do YOU, or atheists in general, dislike religion?
It can not be wars considering the wars caused by greed, corruption, social systems, faaar outweigh any of the "battles" regarding religion.
The idea that religion is the cause of all these wars is purely manipulated by the media. I am sure you are smart enough to know this, or not "smart" but at least resourceful enough to find out that this is the case.
Is it that religious people are bad people?
I mean, am I bad because i believe in ALLAH?
.. but yet you have no concept of bad.
So what am I? why would i cause some sort of discomfort to you?
Is it that you think humans can achieve more than what we already have?
Surely religion does not de motivate individuals nor does it kill ambition.
You can achieve just as much being an aethist doctor, as one named Muhammed, correct?
If it is because religion shapes outlooks and those outlooks do not generally approve of yours, there are conservatives, liberals, republicans, democrats, socialism, capitalism (killed way more than religion) and they are all ways of life.
People generally use these terms to describe much more than just their political views but also their personal views. And just like there are anarchists who believe those systems are at fault, there are atheists who disprove god.
So the exploitation of WHOLE continents, people and resources of the earth that Capitalism/Merchantilism caused, yet people still follow them blindly and agree with the system whats your view on that?
Why are you not out there professing your disgust and clear failures with in a system?
MY POINT IS, why is religion given so much attention when the factors that really affect day to day life for all societies has nothing to do with religion?
OnTheNephs wrote:There are many reasons not to like religion. Religious bigotry, how religion tries to influence our secular nation, how religion tries to influence the education system, how religion persecutes certain minority groups due to their archaic laws, etc. Come on. Over looking the fact that your nation is not secular, have you literally seen this any where? The church and the gays. Do the actual math and you will realize the gays have much more power than the church in USA, they are neither the minority nor are they persecuted in the birds eye view of things. What else is there? the political and judicial system imposes more on your free rights as a human being than religion ever has.
There are many reasons not to like religion. Religious bigotry, how religion tries to influence our secular nation, how religion tries to influence the education system, how religion persecutes certain minority groups due to their archaic laws, etc.
And the concept of bad. Typical human behavior is to associate bad with feelings of guilt, the implicatioin that you can commit actions feeling no guilt, to me, signifies that your understanding of bad is different than mine or the mainstream. Hence why i say you don't believe in the concept of bad.
tkthafm wrote:The article falls apart right from the start:"Every religious book is written, edited, and printed by humans. All moral opinions, interpretations, and proclamations are human opinions. If there were a huge, glowing set of tablets with commandments engraved on them that descended from the sky accompanied by angels blowing trumpets, and the choice was between following those or making up moral laws on our own, we'd be having a very different debate; but there is no such thing. All moral laws are humanly produced. The question is which set of human-created laws we should follow and why."Simply: No.
The author might as well have written "I personally deem all religious books as being human-created". Better yet, you can summarize his entire "article" as: I don't believe in God, therefore he doesn't exist.
There's no proof the Qur'an was human created or edited.. in fact all proof points to the opposite. (unlike all other religious texts). If you want to ignore this and assume it was human created so you can group it together with other texts in one giant clump and write a boring/irrelevant article about churches changing their mind, that's on you; but don't be so pompous/arrogant as to assume you just proved the lack of a moral authority.
tkthafm wrote:The point of my post wasn't to prove God's existence, but rather to refute the article. Faith aside, the empirical evidence for the Qur'an being perfectly preserved is on my side.
Hence claiming a non-human moral authority can't exist because all religious texts are human-created is mere opinion.
Claiming all religious texts were human edited is an unsupported assumption.
So as you said, we're back to square one. As for the evidence, if you are interested I can refer you to why I personally believe the Qur'an is in fact from God. Accepting/rejecting is of course up to you.
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FIREPOWER23 wrote:tkthafm wrote:There's no proof the Qur'an was human created or edited.. There's no proof it was created or edited by a deity.
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tkthafm wrote:FIREPOWER23 wrote:tkthafm wrote:There's no proof the Qur'an was human created or edited.. There's no proof it was created or edited by a deity.Refer back to my post. There are mountains of evidence (I even broke it down by category) that show no human (no matter how smart/where he plagiarized from/how many people helped him etc) could have written it.
The position that it was human created is ironically the one making the more extreme claim.
If it's not from God, then who wrote it ? Muhammad was illiterate, but yet the Qur'an becomes the gold standard for the Arabic language for its beauty,
it contains countless scientific/historical facts with not a single mistake (including corrections of the mistakes of previous religious texts).
Someone claiming a book is from God is a making a very bold statement,
so it would only make sense that the book in question would stand the test of time and be perfect in every form, which the Qur'an is (again, refer back to my post).
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sillyputty wrote:tkthafm wrote:FIREPOWER23 wrote:There's no proof it was created or edited by a deity.Refer back to my post. There are mountains of evidence (I even broke it down by category) that show no human (no matter how smart/where he plagiarized from/how many people helped him etc) could have written it. Books... got... written... by... human... hands... before... the... invention... of... the... printing... press... in... Germany... 600... years... after... islam... was... created...I don't think you understand what the Qur'an is or it's significance in the daily life of a Muslim (IE: how many times a day we recite Quranic verses in congregation, going back to the very first revelation). The Qur'an was meant to be recited and thus memorized immediately by hundreds. To this day millions have memorized the exact same book. This is documented fact. The position that it was human created is ironically the one making the more extreme claim.What is the most succinct and direct evidence that "god" wrote it?Don't forget that Arabic is still spoken, unlike the greek, Aramaic, and latin of the early bibles.But dont forget that ancient chinese works are OLDER by thousands of years far better preserved than even some arabic texts.No other religious text of comparable age is perfectly preserved. Prove otherwise.If it's not from God, then who wrote it ? Muhammad was illiterate, but yet the Qur'an becomes the gold standard for the Arabic language for its beauty,Homer composed the Iliad and the Odyssey, is it hard to believe that its said he was BLIND?! ...maybe Zeus helped in write those...or MAYBE someone wrote them for him... But wait...didn't those texts become hallmark works in our understanding of Greco-Roman culture?Or didn't "Shakespeare" plagiarize some of his works? ...good thing he didn't become a hallmark of period English...oh wait, he DID. I wonder where concepts of hell arose before Dante...oh wait, there weren't any! Your answer is, "Well since I don't know who wrote it...then God wrote it!"Bingo!Case solved. Court adjourned. Home before five to see the wife and kids.Notice how you dodged the question. Who wrote it then ? and where is the proof ? How did he/they/them get the vast amount of knowledge needed to compose this perfect book (IE: Not a single error/contradiction) ? No alternative explanation makes any sense or has a shred of evidence to support it."Qur'an is a religious book ? God doesn't exist. I'll just ignore all evidence.Case solved. Court adjourned. "it contains countless scientific/historical facts with not a single mistake (including corrections of the mistakes of previous religious texts). No. It doesn't.I already showed you in a previous thread how the math it uses to calculate the ratio of the surface area of land to water was off by several orders of magnitude using the numbers YOU provided.Don't be so quick to forget.And thats just one example.and if you went back to the thread you would have seen how you were wrong and the numbers were correct. The water/land ratio is just one minor example. I posted countless more in this thread. Many confirmed by leading experts in their respective fields (see: Dr. Keith Moore, just one example) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_L._MooreIn his article, A Scientist’s Interpretation of References to Embryology in the Qur’an, Moore asserts that "statements referring to human reproduction and development are scattered throughout the Qur'an", and that "the interpretation of the verses in the Qur'an referring to human development would not have been possible in the 7th century A.D., or even a hundred years ago."[12] Moore affirms that Qur'anic statements regarding human development make it clear that the book is of divine origin, concluding: "This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God or Allah."[13] - wikipedia Someone claiming a book is from God is a making a very bold statement,and yet you believe it...so it would only make sense that the book in question would stand the test of time and be perfect in every form, which the Qur'an is (again, refer back to my post). Sans the fact it took 22 years to write and has countless revisions and updates to be incorporated through additional texts like the hadiths and other complementary texts.Your ignorance is showing. I already provided you with an entire series documenting exactly how the Qur'an was sent down over the 23 (not 22) years. Then immediately memorized/implemented with absolutely no changes. (see debate I posted above) If you are interested in how the Hadith was compiled, you can look into the research of Johnathan Brown, a Hadith scholar who became so impressed with the process/accuracy of Hadith compilation that he later became Muslim
tkthafm wrote:FIREPOWER23 wrote:There's no proof it was created or edited by a deity.Refer back to my post. There are mountains of evidence (I even broke it down by category) that show no human (no matter how smart/where he plagiarized from/how many people helped him etc) could have written it.
FIREPOWER23 wrote:There's no proof it was created or edited by a deity.
In his article, A Scientist’s Interpretation of References to Embryology in the Qur’an, Moore asserts that "statements referring to human reproduction and development are scattered throughout the Qur'an", and that "the interpretation of the verses in the Qur'an referring to human development would not have been possible in the 7th century A.D., or even a hundred years ago."[12] Moore affirms that Qur'anic statements regarding human development make it clear that the book is of divine origin, concluding: "This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God or Allah."[13] - wikipedia
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RKO2004 wrote:Putty, I'm not going back and forth with you. I have faith in God. I'm not going to argue and debate with you over that. You can continue to believe what you please.You won.
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tkthafm wrote:Hopefully some will actually look at the evidence posted. sillyputty wrote:tkthafm wrote:Refer back to my post. There are mountains of evidence (I even broke it down by category) that show no human (no matter how smart/where he plagiarized from/how many people helped him etc) could have written it. Books... got... written... by... human... hands... before... the... invention... of... the... printing... press... in... Germany... 600... years... after... islam... was... created...I don't think you understand what the Qur'an is or it's significance in the daily life of a Muslim (IE: how many times a day we recite Quranic verses in congregation, going back to the very first revelation). The Qur'an was meant to be recited and thus memorized immediately by hundreds. To this day millions have memorized the exact same book. This is documented fact.
sillyputty wrote:tkthafm wrote:Refer back to my post. There are mountains of evidence (I even broke it down by category) that show no human (no matter how smart/where he plagiarized from/how many people helped him etc) could have written it. Books... got... written... by... human... hands... before... the... invention... of... the... printing... press... in... Germany... 600... years... after... islam... was... created...I don't think you understand what the Qur'an is or it's significance in the daily life of a Muslim (IE: how many times a day we recite Quranic verses in congregation, going back to the very first revelation). The Qur'an was meant to be recited and thus memorized immediately by hundreds. To this day millions have memorized the exact same book. This is documented fact.
tkthafm wrote:Refer back to my post. There are mountains of evidence (I even broke it down by category) that show no human (no matter how smart/where he plagiarized from/how many people helped him etc) could have written it.
The position that it was human created is ironically the one making the more extreme claim.What is the most succinct and direct evidence that "god" wrote it?Don't forget that Arabic is still spoken, unlike the greek, Aramaic, and latin of the early bibles.But dont forget that ancient chinese works are OLDER by thousands of years far better preserved than even some arabic texts.No other religious text of comparable age is perfectly preserved. Prove otherwise.
If it's not from God, then who wrote it ? Muhammad was illiterate, but yet the Qur'an becomes the gold standard for the Arabic language for its beauty,Homer composed the Iliad and the Odyssey, is it hard to believe that its said he was BLIND?! ...maybe Zeus helped in write those...or MAYBE someone wrote them for him... But wait...didn't those texts become hallmark works in our understanding of Greco-Roman culture?Or didn't "Shakespeare" plagiarize some of his works? ...good thing he didn't become a hallmark of period English...oh wait, he DID. I wonder where concepts of hell arose before Dante...oh wait, there weren't any! Your answer is, "Well since I don't know who wrote it...then God wrote it!"Bingo!Case solved. Court adjourned. Home before five to see the wife and kids.Notice how you dodged the question. Who wrote it then ? and where is the proof ? How did he/they/them get the vast amount of knowledge needed to compose this perfect book (IE: Not a single error/contradiction) ? No alternative explanation makes any sense or has a shred of evidence to support it."Qur'an is a religious book ? God doesn't exist. I'll just ignore all evidence.Case solved. Court adjourned. "
it contains countless scientific/historical facts with not a single mistake (including corrections of the mistakes of previous religious texts). No. It doesn't.I already showed you in a previous thread how the math it uses to calculate the ratio of the surface area of land to water was off by several orders of magnitude using the numbers YOU provided.Don't be so quick to forget.And thats just one example.and if you went back to the thread you would have seen how you were wrong and the numbers were correct. The water/land ratio is just one minor example. I posted countless more in this thread. Many confirmed by leading experts in their respective fields (see: Dr. Keith Moore)
Someone claiming a book is from God is a making a very bold statement,and yet you believe it...so it would only make sense that the book in question would stand the test of time and be perfect in every form, which the Qur'an is (again, refer back to my post). Sans the fact it took 22 years to write and has countless revisions and updates to be incorporated through additional texts like the hadiths and other complementary texts.Your ignorance is showing. I already provided you with an entire series documenting exactly how the Qur'an was sent down over the 23 (not 22) years.
Then immediately memorized/implemented with absolutely no changes.
(see debate I posted above) If you are interested in how the Hadith was compiled, you can look into the research of Johnathan Brown, a Hadith scholar who became so impressed with the process/accuracy of Hadith compilation that he later became Muslim
at the end of the day, the evidence if never addressed because no one can refute it.
No alternative explanations hold water.
The Qur'an is undeniably divine.
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tkthafm wrote:Hopefully some will actually look at the evidence posted. at the end of the day, the evidence if never addressed because no one can refute it. No alternative explanations hold water. The Qur'an is undeniably divine.
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ATGD7154xBBxMZ wrote:RKO2004 wrote:Putty, I'm not going back and forth with you. I have faith in God. I'm not going to argue and debate with you over that. You can continue to believe what you please.You won.What's the difference between faith and gullibility?
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RKO2004 wrote:ATGD7154xBBxMZ wrote:RKO2004 wrote:Putty, I'm not going back and forth with you. I have faith in God. I'm not going to argue and debate with you over that. You can continue to believe what you please.You won.What's the difference between faith and gullibility?I don't know if this will answer your question. But I'm far from gullible in my opinion. I choose to have faith. For the me, belief in God does wonders in day to day living. It puts me at piece with a lot of things.Also this world can be very evil and defeating at times. I can only hope and pray that someone has our backs at the end of everything. With so much evil there has to be a polar opposite that represents good. That's just me though.
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RKO2004 wrote:ATGD7154xBBxMZ wrote:RKO2004 wrote:Putty, I'm not going back and forth with you. I have faith in God. I'm not going to argue and debate with you over that. You can continue to believe what you please.You won.What's the difference between faith and gullibility?I don't know if this will answer your question. But I'm far from gullible in my opinion.
I choose to have faith.
For the me, belief in God does wonders in day to day living.
It puts me at piece with a lot of things.
Also this world can be very evil and defeating at times.
I can only hope and pray that someone has our backs at the end of everything.
With so much evil there has to be a polar opposite that represents good. That's just me though.
tkthafm wrote: The Hammurabi code is missing sections, and does not even establish the framework for a complete religion.
Various Hindu texts have had countless changes made to them (and contain many contradictions/scientific/historical errors)
and ironically, some texts even talk of the Prophet Muhammad himself (just as the Bible/Old Testament) - one of the vids I posted previously discusses this in much further detail.
As for the rest, at least you admitted you cannot explain/have no evidence to show who else could have possibly written the Qur'an.
The problem is you don't bother to look at the things I posted and continue to claim "there is no evidence to support an Islamic God"
. Of course there is no evidence if YOU don't want there to be any.
How ridiculous of a discussion is this ?
There's at least a few days worth of material that I posted; the material is completely ignored as if it's not there,
no alternative explanations are given,
and the claim of "no evidence" continues to get thrown out. Amazing.
God took 23 years to write a holy book.Why would it take god ANY amount of time to write a holy book?How is a book "sent down?" You mean, a guy says "god talked to him over 23 years?" or do you mean "god took 23 years to write a book?"How is this common sense evading you?God created the universe in six days...but took 22...excuse me, 23years to "write" the Quran...Seems legit. ...because god loves the written version ofArabic over all other languages in the world at the time 1400 years ago and forms of communication. Why didn't he write it in the sky? or on the side of a mountain? Why not just TELL everyone? On top of that, why did god mess up in revealing the "final word" to the jews, then the christians, and FINALLY the muslims? Did god make two mistakes?...and why did he wait so long?
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