Thread: Would you delete a copy of the Koran?
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Old 10-04-2010, 02:56 PM   #338
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Originally Posted by EatingPie View Post
Why is his record suspect? And while the tale could have grown in the telling, so to speak, John was an eyewitness. If we were, say, in a court of law, an eyewitness is considered one of the very best witnesses to a crime. Sure, there are suspect glossed sections in John (as discussed previously), but this is not one of them. This verse also exists on a pre-300AD fire manuscript (also referenced previously I believe). Hebrews -- authorship unknown -- also refers to the deity of Christ, as well as various "Son of God" and "Son of Man" references, interpreted as equating Jesus with God.

And while Jesus does not call himself "Son of God" in the synoptics, he accepts the phrase in Luke:


Jesus also uses the "I am" phrasing here.

You certainly can draw your own conclusions. But what's important here is that Muhammed contradicts Christian Theology, and therefore the statement that the Koran is a continuation of Jesus' teachings cannot be true.

-Pie
All of the Gospels, except for Luke, are anonymous. The names given them were ascribed by tradition. None of the authors were eye-witnesses. Mark, the first to be written, and which served as one of the templates for Luke and Matthew, is believed by critical scholars to have been composed after 70 CE, about ten years after Philemon, the last of the seven books that can be reliably attributed to Paul.

Modern scholarship doesn't always gel with fundamentalist beliefs.
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