To: america4vr
There were many versions of Koran just after Muhammad died. At the Caliphs order, they’re all destroyed but the ‘official’ one.
2 posted on
01/19/2008 2:41:45 AM PST by
paudio
(Rose: I loath and despise money! Father: You also spend it!)
To: paudio
There were many versions of Koran just after Muhammad died. At the Caliphs order, theyre all destroyed but the official one. The alternative versions were ordered destroyed, but I believe there are other copies of material other than this new stuff that proves that there were other copies. I am sure the rank and file muslim is not aware of that sort of information, however.
4 posted on
01/19/2008 2:52:21 AM PST by
highlander_UW
(I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
To: paudio
What if scholars can prove beyond reasonable doubt that the Koran was not dictated by the Archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Mohammad during the 7th century, but rather was redacted by later writers drawing on a variety of extant Christian and Jewish sources? It will make what went on over those Danish cartoons look, well, cartoonish.
13 posted on
01/19/2008 3:16:57 AM PST by
Dahoser
(America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
To: paudio
There were many Gospels, too, in the early centuries of the Church. Only Church establishment approved Gospels made it into the Bible.
15 posted on
01/19/2008 3:19:59 AM PST by
SatinDoll
(Fredhead and proud of it!)
To: paudio
Sounds a lot like the action of Justinian in calling the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. to synthesize all the variations of gospels and ‘canons of belief’ into a standard set of approved orthodoxy beliefs about various versions of Christianity.
To: paudio
This is what the Catholic Church did when they cannonized the Bible.
John
126 posted on
01/20/2008 12:41:40 PM PST by
Diggity
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