RE: Benevolent Creator God?
August 7, 2021 at 6:59 pm
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2021 at 7:01 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(August 7, 2021 at 5:03 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(August 7, 2021 at 4:45 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: I’m confused. You think that a story about someone claiming divinity is evidence that he was divine? How is that not circular?
You asked for an example of something in the Qur'an that Muhammad couldn't have gotten from local knowledge, the Paraoh's claim of divinity is a detail that is not in the Bible or even the apocrypha. You could of course claim Muhammad could travel to Egypt and decipher hieroglyphs...
It’s less than 1000 miles from Cairo to Mecca. It isn’t unreasonable to posit that, during the fifteen centuries in which the title ‘pharaoh’ was used, word of the divine appointment of those particular kings could have filtered across that distance. In fact, it is UNreasonable to assert that not a single Egyptian made that journey (although a more likely scenario is that it happened in stages, over several generation).
Since it is at least plausible that the divinity of the pharaohs was known in Arabia by mundane means, claiming that the only way Mohammad could have known about it was via God seems, well, a little desperate.
At any rate, I’d be interested to see the verse in question.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson