Posted on 08/10/2018 9:59:31 AM PDT by ebb tide
Countering Muslim Claims, Episode 2: The Literary Miracle of the Quran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2XVbpIfEkA
Acts17Apologetics
Published on Aug 28, 2017
Muslims boast that the Quran is a literary masterpiece, that its eloquence is unsurpassed and unmatchable. Such claims imply that the Quran expresses its contents and themes in the clearest manner, and that it contains no grammatical ambiguities. In fact, Muslims will argue that the Quran is considered the standard for Arabic grammar. Moreover, this claim suggests that whenever the Quran makes a point it will allow the reader to understand the issue being addressed with an unmatched clarity. This episode will expose the fallacy of the “Argument from Literary Excellence.”
Category
Education
The Koran/Islam was created absolutely in order to establish Muhammads political power and status as a leader....his efforts to establish himself and his ideology were rejected so he had to ‘copy’/counterfeit whatever ways and means available he saw were working at the time. ...
In THAT era/time Arabs/pagans were divided tribes, each tribe ruled itself and they were looked upon as uncivilized barbarians by their neighbors..... with the ongoing struggles between the Byzantine empire and the Persian empire often drifting over into the Arabian peninsula they could not defend/or stay away from those battles.
So short end of it he He marries a Christian (Khadijah) who told him there will come ‘a new prophet’ to continue the teachings of Christianity...he simply took advantage of the situation. He noticed how powerful the Christian faith was., how devoted it’s followers and knew he could use it in a way to unite his people and become their leader and carve out his own empire.....but he needed to be “spiritulized’ to gain their trust that the pagan God they worshipped (Allah) had appointed him as the prophet of the hour.
So thus you have him copy moses trip to the mountain....’seeing’ the unseen....and all the other gobbly goop he then proclaims to his followers.and appoints those to to write for him, (Since he was illiterate)...passages he twisted and bent from the bible and other litterary works of that time.
Presto! Islam was born..and the new Prophet mohammed.
In the Fiction category?
It’s right down there with Mein Kampf.
Is the author ridiculously verbose here? He is usually such a good writer.
No. It doesn’t read well at all.
By contrast, the God of the Bible issues a challenge but it is NOT defensively about who composed text better but that God would PROVE He is God by foretelling the people things that were yet to happen and when the events DID happen as God said they would, then they could know God was the only, true God. For example:
It’s bad writing. Obscure. Disconnected. Contradictory.
I consider the Koran and Mein Kampf to be the same book by different authors.
They have the same basic themes;
1. Kill all the Jews
2. Destroy all competing religions (Nazism aspired to be a state religion)
3. World conquest
4. One leader
Also read the Hadith.
Actually, it’s a source of the paper to use to clean up after creating a colonic masterpiece! A tad stiff butt better than nothing.
Nope.
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