Free Republic

Has the Bible or the Qur'an been "corrupted"? Are there contradictions in these texts? In all honesty, if one takes a liberal stance (influenced by the philosophy of language) they can claim these questions are unclear. A text is nothing more than a bunch of symbols which the reader assigns value to. A religious text is often taken to be metaphorical by believers, thus if sentence X does not necessarily mean 'X' we cannot claim X contradicts Y. The point here is that it is not clear what any particular religious text is saying; rather that is a matter decided...