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Is Quran the proof of God?
#71
RE: Is Quran the proof of God?
I get up in the morning, and I go to bed at night.

The sun rises in the morning, and it goes down at night.

Goddammit then, I must be God!
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#72
RE: Is Quran the proof of God?
(January 8, 2016 at 12:17 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You have already made your conclusions on those points regarding other books.  You have failed to apply them to your own.

I haven't said these are signs of the book being true. I haven't said they are reasons to believe in them. I am trying to understand when can we hypothetically tell the difference between purposeful design (hypothetically) and coincidences (as the case you believe in Quran and other books).
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#73
RE: Is Quran the proof of God?
-and again, you've already reached your conclusions on those points regarding other books...and have failed to apply them to your own.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#74
RE: Is Quran the proof of God?
Here, let me present you with a surah.  Explain to we heathens what is happening here..

016.079 
YUSUFALI: Do they not look at the birds, held poised in the midst of (the air and) the sky? Nothing holds them up but (the power of) Allah. Verily in this are signs for those who believe. 
PICKTHAL: Have they not seen the birds obedient in mid-air? None holdeth them save Allah. Lo! herein, verily, are portents for a people who believe. 
SHAKIR: Do they not see the birds, constrained in the middle of the sky? None withholds them but Allah; most surely there are signs in this for a people who believe.

http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran/verses/016-qmt.php#016.079
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#75
RE: Is Quran the proof of God?
And if the word land appeared 7 times instead of 13 they would have said "praise the lord, it's the number of continents" those superstitious people will find any excuse to make the Quraan true. Insert almost any number to any word and then find the appropriate excuse, it will often work.
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#76
RE: Is Quran the proof of God?
I haven't applied them because I don't understand the phenomenon. When purposeful design can be distinguished from coincidence as far as this issue.

As I believe God did teach the Quran, I can't rule out the possibility that he has purposely designed the book in a way, that these should be perceived as more then coincidences. For me to rule out that possibility, I have to see that similar design is indeed in other books or at least it's mathematically plausible, and we aren't looking at a 1/trillion chances of such design to happen or anything like that but that it's probable or at least highly plausible that it's taken as all coincidences.
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#77
RE: Is Quran the proof of God?
Perhaps you could tell us what god was trying to teach us through the perfect quran ........ in the surah I offered, then?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#78
RE: Is Quran the proof of God?
(January 8, 2016 at 12:33 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Perhaps you could tell us what the quran was trying to teach us in the surah I offered, then.


That all laws exist by God's command. That the whole universe is functioning all through God's power and his command to be. Seems like a simple message to me? What does it mean to you?
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#79
RE: Is Quran the proof of God?
Why, exactly what it says.  That the flight of a bird is a good reason to believe in god..it's not as if there's anything but god holding the bird up there. I like your correction though. Tell me, why don't they allow people like yourselves to correct errors in the text such as that? Whom should I trust as the authority..the qurans words..or yours?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#80
RE: Is Quran the proof of God?
Rhythm, you shouldn't trust either me or Quran words. You have no reason to at the moment.
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