RE: How do you know God isn't dead?
June 14, 2013 at 11:14 am
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2013 at 11:16 am by Zarith.)
(June 14, 2013 at 10:56 am)sarcasticgeographer Wrote: Statler:The Qur'an according to Muhammad is the literal words of Allah, dictated (verbatim) to Muhammad via the angel Gabriel, and recorded without alteration. This is why a translation of the Qur'an is not really considered the Qur'an.
A claim that scripture is infallible is not accurate. Are you telling me that scripture is free from error and that there are not inaccuracies in that book? That "holy" book was written by human authors and yet you claim they are infallible? It would take a lot more than subjective faith to prove that the bible is free of error.
If divinely inspired authors are infallible, then christians must accept the fact that the koran is also infallible. If I am not mistaken, the koran was inspired in part by Muhammad. Yet, I seem to remember christians able to question the koran and not follow its premises.
As far as 'infallible scripture' -- do the many Biblical errors, contradictions, omissions, and interpolations count for nothing here? Or are you (statler) using some other sense of 'infallible' that permits failing?