There should be another option: a corrupted book written by individuals who tried to capture a devine revelation and contains remnant of the devine revelation.
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It’s a mix of the two in the middle, part of it is the distorted revelation and other parts are either exaggerated or made up historical conjecture with obvious bias
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Paul please bring some experts to talk about the massacres in Sudan. We need people speaking up and knowing what's actually happening! Like so Paul can see this!
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A morass of fantasy, fables, myths, and historical fiction meant to function as religious propaganda.
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As Ahmed Deedat put it: Bible = The word of God, word of the prophets, words of other people like stories etc and erotica literature merged into one book.
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It's a historical record of the life of Jesus pbuh, naturally it contains some fragments of the original Divine text as well
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Definitely divinely inspired, the Prophet pbuh is even mentioned a couple of times yet Christians try to hide it (Matthew 7:15-16, 24:11, Galatians 1:8-9)
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I chose corrupted version of revelation but I think sth closer would be a historical document containing parts of revelation that was corrupted and shaped by the community in their theological debates
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Existence of internal discrepancies in bible rules out first and fourth options for sure, since no divine inspiration would make genuine contradiction with itself.
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The thing is, there are still parts scattered about where the Truth shines through.
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A meandering story where you slowly learn the main character is actually the villain
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I love Parable of the Good Samaritan, which i don’t think makes it into the Qur'an? Not that it particularly needs to either. However, there will be divinely inspired messaging in and around the bible, that doesn’t make it to the Qur’an. The same can be said for the Jewish scriptures and possibly beyond “we sent 124 thousand messengers”. I do think Islam is a more comprehensive expression of god, but people shouldn’t snuff at Christianity and the insights that can be found within it. And impact it has on people to do good. I implore people to read up on Keith Ward. A Christian Theologian / Philosopher, expert on comparative region. Affirms Islam as a genuine revelation. Isn’t somebody with a dogmatic, literal interpretation of the trinity which some Christian’s can be guilty of, but also some Muslims of reducing Christianity to that. His work I think harmonises quite nicely with Ibn Arabi. I think Muslims are implored to take seriously other scriptures right? “People of the book” the gospels. If it can increase your ethical took box, and understanding of other people’s paths into god; then that’s what it’s all about? It’s knowledge building which the Qu’ran encourages. Absolutely Christian’s and others should get to know the Qur’an more, the life of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and I do think there’s genuine content and insight into the divinely inspired teachings and wisdom of Jesus, found within the Christian scriptures. It’s looking at how all the messengers, scriptures can complement, co-exist.
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Speaking of the Bible, this reminded me of a fascinating topic which would make for an excellent video. Which is the Shapira scroll (also known as Moses scroll), which has been deemed as authentic by modern scholars for various reasons. To learn more about it, check out BeyondDoubtTheology’s interviews with Ross Nichols—who wrote a book translating the scroll and explaining its history—and Idan Dershowitz. And Inviting Theology’s “The Moses Scroll and other recensions with brothers Wesam & Ali.” The scroll—alongside J, E, P, and D, and the numerous Pentateuchs—strengthens the idea that the sons of Israel invented their own Books. So a video on this is needed, and the existence of this needs to become more well known, and you have the popularity. So may Allah reward you for doing so. Further, consider making a video presenting the differences between the Dead Sea scrolls and the current bible. It will be the cherry on top when they see that there are entire chapters—such as in the Psalms—that are not in their bible, showing that the sons of Israel invented and changed books. Also, check out “Dead Sea Scrolls Bible Translations” for a large percent—if not all—of the Dead Sea scrolls translated.
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