RE: Benevolent Creator God?
August 7, 2021 at 5:57 pm
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2021 at 5:57 pm by R00tKiT.)
(August 7, 2021 at 5:24 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(August 7, 2021 at 5:14 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: The entirety of the Qur'an is an oral transmission, its later compilation came from the same oral heritage that prevailed during Muhammad's lifetime and it didn't alter its content.
Sure. Telephone. I know this game. People wrote down what Muhammad allegedly said. Of course, we have no way of actually confirming it’s accuracy, and if I understand correctly, those alleged translations of oral tradition passed through several pairs of hands after Muhammad’s death. I’ll ask again: how did you rule out other ways that information could have ended up in your book?
It's not a game really... Oral traditions of crowds of people about the verses of the Qur'an is a very accurate way to preserve information. Can you imagine people not remembering well something like Luther King's utterance "I have a dream" ? The Qur'an is a collection of arabic verses who are just as easy to memorize on average. Meccans in Muhammad's time were far more fluent in Classical Arabic than any Arab alive today, it's even easier for them to memorize chunks of the qur'an and recite them verbatim. Many companions of Muhammad recited the Qur'an in front of him to make sure it's preserved accurately.
In what other way Muhammad could know what an ancient pharaoh said ? Muhammad agrees with the bible on many points, which means that, if he was really copying stuff around him, he wouldn't have put the divinity claim made by the pharaoh.
Let's even say that such information was available somewhere in his time, how does he exactly pick the correct details from a myriad of claims and myths about ancient pharaohs ??