(March 1, 2013 at 6:27 am)paulpablo Wrote:You ask good questions. But just think of this for one second: God wants to send down his speech to us as humans. How is He going to do that? Just think about that question for a bit. And now answer this; what do you think is the wisdom behind God sending a human Prophet to do the job? God could have easily sent an Angel to us rather than a human, why isn't an angel delivering the Qur'an directly, why do we need a human Prophet? Can you think of what would happen if God sent an angel to all of mankind instead?(March 1, 2013 at 6:20 am)mo66 Wrote: Like I said, those who did not hear the Qur'an are not obligated to accept it, God accepts ignorance as an excuse. God does not punish somebody if they didn't hear the revelation. They are not at a disadvantage.My point is that although I'm always debating against Islam because I'm an atheist it's mainly because of the logic that gods best way of delivering a message is through an arabic prophet 1400 years ago, then relying on the word of man to spread the word of a religion which has many sects and many beliefs within each sect, for example you will find one sunni muslim who believes in beating women and that terrorism is a good thing and one sunni muslim who believes the opposite.
But i agree the quran still has some good advice within it, and I'm sure muslims believe everything in the quran is good advice for example not drinking alcohol or eating pork and women covering up their bodies, in hot countries some people believe rising testosterone accounts for higher crime rate which would be hindered slightly by women covering up more. But that being the case why would god not give this good advice to the world?
And ok if the quran is a test like you claim then why is most of the world going to remain untested before death? The majority of the world might have heard of the quran now, maybe or maybe not. But before the recent invention of the internet and global travel and communications the quran would have only been revealed to an extreme minority. Why is god relying on man to spread a message?
You asked a lot of good questions such as why an Arab Prophet not a French one or something else? Why is there a lot of different interpretations in the revelation? Why does God wish to spread the message through humans? these 3 are all good questions but I'm going to answer them one at a time so you can think of alternative scenarios yourself.