(November 27, 2010 at 10:19 pm)Rayaan Wrote: If Muhammad didn't exist, then how do you explain the Quran? Where did Islam come from?The existence of any historical figure is to some extent in doubt. Some are better documented than others. Muhammad seems to have been a real historical figure.
Also, God chose an illiterate man as a prophet so that people do not doubt that the Quran was invented by the prophet himself. There is no person in history who was able to find a single evidence that the Quran was fabricated or plagiarized (from other scriptures). And there are lots of authentic historical information about the life of the Prophet (pbuh) which contradict with the idea that he "made up" the Quran. And if you don't believe me, then this basically means that you didn't do enough research.
The choice of an illiterate man to render a last and final revelation renders no more credibility than choosing a literate man. Clearly if illiterate he was able to transcribe that revelation through to scribes as a proxy to him writing it himself. In fact it leaves it more open to question as clearly scribes can transcribe incorrectly and an illiterate man would not be able to proof read the text.
The more salient question is whether a god communicated to a man. There is not a shred of evidence for that in any religion. The acceptance of any revelation is taken on faith alone and given this was the iron age, revelations such as this were commonplace and accepted by superstitious people who understood little about the world they lived in.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
