Scoobes said:
To be fair, similar arguments can be made against Christianity. The bible as it currently is was collated in 325AD. There were many more texts that refered to Jesus but these were disregarded by a group of fallible humans with their own bias 325 years after he died. This is not even taking into account the material that may have been lost in translation. For instance, the virgin birth may not be as miraculous as orginally thought as the Hebrew word translated to "virgin" could also be used to mean "young woman". The 4 gospels in the bible are also estimated to have been written 60-100 years after Jesus' death meaning a big gap in first hand knowledge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_reliability_of_the_Acts_of_the_Apostles#Historicity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_reliability_of_the_Gospels Every Religious text has inconsistencies with historical and archaelogical consensus. Singling out Islam when the bible contains inconsistencies is just plain wrong. |
60-100 years isn't hard to lose track with because it can easily be passed from one generation to the next. This is why scholars don't question is it reliable as people at the thing. The society at the time was a collectivist/low-context society they were train were rasied to never mess up on quoting and to be able to send the message for years. 60-100 years is very easy for the type of society it was. You're viewing them as your society were we can't remember anything and write everything down is common mistake with people who don't look into the societies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJpBKmeLW_Y&feature=plcp
^ Suggest you watch and try to absorb what I'm saying.
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Every Religious text has inconsistencies with historical and archaelogical consensus. Singling out Islam when the bible contains inconsistencies is just plain wrong."
You just make a claim...but didn't give an example? I'm not going to agree to claim obviously so give me example in Christianity. I already know about others so don't bother with the Islams/Hindu/ etc because I can tell you why there not reliable as the bible.
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