[Quranic Reflection]: Quranic manuscripts from 1400 years

[WinterHold]

Beowulf is the oldest extant work in the (proto)english language.  It's contemporaneous to the quran.  There isn't a single place in the english speaking world that hasn't been invaded, burnt down, rebuilt, and invaded and burnt down again since it was written.  

Clearly, that means that grendel and his mother are super duper real, as are the dragons and sea serpents and the white hall.  

The meso-american temple complex's myths are literally written into stone monoliths, also contemporaneous to the quran.  The region has endured near total genocide and countless wars since.  Their gods and stories must be equally true, to you.

Or not..because you don't actually believe anything on the basis of the silly things you post here.  50/50 - I'm leaving just as much room for you to be as ridiculous as you make yourself out to be.

I'd rather see that very logical explanation...than anything you've ever posted to the boards, Atlas.  Anything.  Not because I;d suddenly drop to me knees and proclaim some fairy my master...but because it would help to establish that so many of the world's people aren't absolute cretins.  That they have some actual reason to believe what they do..even if it's false, and even if it wouldn't matter if it were true.

The questions that inspire the search for the truth for me are as simple as "what am I doing here" ? and "If God really existed he won't complicate matters for me greatly".

Both questions opened the road for me -and I hope they open the road for you; too- to find God.

The first question will take you to all kinds of literature claiming an answer; but the content of that literature always proves false or the work of man,

The second question's answer will be innate capacity when one sees the huge amounts of books and pages required to satisfy the claim.

For example, read the bible. You'll have to see the fingerprint of horny Roman religious men in many of its verses, as for the second question, you can try to read the thousands of pages Shiite Hadith and Sunni Hadith are squashing your head with.

I can't prove a thing; I'm a human not God. But I believe God put logic in the heads of each of us; the right course is clear from the wrong.

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You use both. You look at the universe, and read the Quran.

Been there, done that. The book has bugger all to do with the universe. Nothing in it about GRBs or the expansion of space-time. Try some Asimov instead.

It's not a science book.