(April 20, 2020 at 1:18 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Not really. Their version was preserved in such a manner. Such is the true value of faithful preservation.
But the scholars say it is different, like
Quote:While the upper text is almost identical with the modern Qur'ans in use (with the exception of spelling variants), the lower text contains significant diversions from the standard text. [...] Comparing it with parallel textual traditions provides a unique window onto the initial state of the text from which the different traditions emerged.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
