RE: Benevolent Creator God?
August 7, 2021 at 7:10 pm
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2021 at 7:19 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(August 7, 2021 at 6:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Not to mention the silly double-speak of claiming “there’s no way anyone could have possibly known anything true or factual about the Egyptians through mundane pathways,” while out the other side of his mouth propping up two-thousand-year-old oral tradition as a completely reliable method of communication that is delivering us facts and truth about a god; that we’re being irrational in our doubt. Help me out because I’m no historian; did the Egyptians not speak or write things down?(August 7, 2021 at 5:03 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: 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
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.