(November 9, 2011 at 11:58 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: This gives the notion that Quran being unique without no one being able to replicate it implies it's divine?
To replicate means to make an exact copy , to reproduce, to copy. It is easy to replicate any documents. We can use photocopier, scanner, offset printers, e.t.c.
Bring a Surah like it. This statement indicates you to bring something that looks exactly like it. Easy. Just bring a copy of a quran. The argument 'bring a surah like it' is not a sound argument to claim that quran is divine. There is no such thing as divine. There is no God. Many religions claim their scriptures is sacred and there is nothing like it. You have to photocopy them if you want to replicate them.
That statement was given to Mohamed's people who were poets and disbelievers at the same time. At that time poetry was popular and poets were competing to create the most beautiful poetry in competitions. Of course they can not make anything that resembles the quran, a scripture which promotes hatred and killing and threatens the disbelievers to go to hell. Big deal. Bully the disbelieving poets that they're going to go to hell and for extra bullying, challenge them to repeat/reproduce what the quran is saying ("go to hell you disbelivers").
That statement is just a method of bullying.
Does a disbeliever who spends all of his life feeding poor people in Africa deserve to go to hell? The supposedly divine quran says so.
If someone ask me to bring a surah like it, I'd say how come this disbeliever is more benevolent than your divine god? This disbeliever feed millions of poor people in Africa and he funds research to combat disease there! How come your divine god is more cruel than this disbeliever? that your god ask you to kill this disbeliever and other millions of disbelievers in the world and send them to hell? Why should I try to replicate surahs that promote hatred, killings and cause misery to human beings? How come this disbelievers save more lives than your divine god? Which is more divine? your god or this disbeliever? Before I accept your challenge to replicate the quran, I want to challenge you back: Feed millions of hungry people in Africa and around the world just like what this disbeliever does, instead of killing human beings all the time.
