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Originally Posted by Muhammad_4
If I come across Biblical verses which says that: Almighty God is One, Jesus is a Prophet of God sent to the children of Israel,that he was born miraculous,that every soul is responsible for his own sin, then I accept.But when you are telling me that God is like charlote, he is like an apple, like an egg, that Jesus has to die for you sin, there is when problems start.
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Muhammad, to convince a Christian to convert to Islam, you first have to show where Christianity erred before convincing him of the relevance of the Qu'ran. You claim that Christians strayed from the original teachings of Jesus, you need to be able to point differences between, say, the first century Christians and the fifth century Christians, and why these differences were significant enough to warrant their correction by a prophet and not by a reformation.
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Originally Posted by Muhammad_4
However, if I were to convince you or anyone else of the authenticity of the Qur’an, I must prove 1) that it was impossible for Muhammad to manufacture such a book 2) I must prove that it was equally impossible for any human agency to have created it.
Let us think about this. The Qur’an makes the statement: And we created the human beings from a hanging clot that was clinging to the wall of the womb". How did the prophet Muhammad know that the embryo started out as a clot hanging and clinging to the wall of the uterus of the mother? Did he have a telescope? Did he have a microscope? Did he have some kind of X-ray vision? How did he receive this knowledge when this was discovered 60 years ago? How did he know that the ocean have a barrier between them to separate the salt and the fresh water? How did he know that? How did he know that the sun and the moon and the planets are all swimming in an orbit that has been ordered for them? How did he know them when these things just been discovered 35 or 50 years ago? Technology and science, the sophistication of which you and I well know, have just discovered these things. How did Muhammad know them fifteen hundred years ago? An uneducated shepherd who could not read or write, a man raised in the desert, how could he say something like this? How could he produce something like this? How could anyone else living with him before and after, produce something that has been discovered recently? Impossible. How could a man who never left the Arabian Peninsula, a man who never sailed on a ship make such clear and astounding descriptions that were recently discovered in the half of the 20th century?
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Muhammad, i'm not very familiar with the Qur'an, but scientific statements in most religious texts are so vague that they could be made to fit anything. People are able to find the hydrological cycle, the solar system, ice ages, and even dinosaurs in the Old Testament (somehow).
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Also if this is not enough, let me mention to you that the Qur’an has 114 chapters, over 6000 verses and there were hundreds of people in the time of the prophet Muhammad who memorized this book entirely. Was he come kind of genius? How did that happen? Did anyone memorize any of the gospels? Did anyone memorize the Torah? The Psalms? The Old and the New Testament? Nobody, not even the pope himself. But there are millions of Muslims today, who has memorized the entire book. This is the ambition of almost every Muslims. How many Christians have you meet in your life that has memorized the Bible? You have never meet any Christians that memorized the Bible because you have never meet a Christian who even knew what word the whole Bible.
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Note that statement above in red, the ambition of Muslims is to memorize the Qur'an. Christians don't memorize the Bible because that is not their ambition.