Did the Quran plagiarise from the Bible?

Question

Don't you find it ridiculous christians (some) accuse islam of plagiarising the bible. LOL.

Whats funny is christians copied the Old testament, word for word.
You guys are a trip. At least the quran is in it's own words.


If the source (god) is the same its bound to be similar.

So how is it that the Quran plagiarised from the Bible, but the Bible didn't plagiarise from the Torah.

bung yow:

I think its more plausible to believe people raised Jesus to be the son of god. This has been the case in history with Pharoahs, hercules, Alexander the great... etc.

So the question of Jesus being god's son is something you need to ponder over the plausiblity of him being elevated to those ranks by his followers over time.

Furthermore, jews reject the notion of a son of god.

Chris C. can you elaborate.

"It was stolen from the true scriptures ..."

By the same argument you have to concede that Jesus stole from the Torah. (not that i believe that) anything short of that is hypocritical.

"Nothing has been changed or re-written"

Thats all the more to the credit of islam. it is harder to reproduce something. That requires knowledge which muhammad wouldn't have had being that he was illitrate, scriptures were never that readily accessible, they were bound to be found only in places of worship. In addition, the Jews of his time would ask him questions to ascertain his prophethood, and you would see areas where the quran says .. "And they ask you about..." which he would answer through revelation. this demonstrate the Jews didn't expect him to have knowledge about those issues. Furthermore, he was neither a jew nor a christian. so he didn't learn any of this from church or synagogue. So quran's reproducing stories from the past, is more of an attestation to its divinity then against it.

Chris C:

"Jesus Christ, being God, the Son...the second Divine person of the Holy Trinity...could not steal or plagerize something He created"

I expect a stronger argument from someone who has written a book, you have to reason with me. Thats not gonna fly

"DontStop2"

"the Quran mentioned Mary the mother of jesus it was daugther of Aaron's family"

Allow me to correct you. it didn't say daughter it says:

Quran 019.028
"O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!"

There are numerous places the term brother is used when it doesn't mean brother in the literal sense. Every prophet was considered "Brother" to his people. evidence is in the link. every prophet is brother to his people.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/007.qmt.html#007.065

Furthermore, the reason she is called Aaron's sister is because her mother had dedicated her to the priesthood. As a christian you should know there are two types of priesthood, the Aaronic priesthood, and the levitical (order of Melchizedik) priesthood. So Mary, was a sister (as in a nun) in the Aaronic priesthood. Hence sister of Aaron.

Answer 1

well when God sends a Holy Book with the help of His messengers be it any of 1,24,000 prophets -pbut, He sends it with only one aim -- MY CREATION will let go of all its perverted ways. but NO, people commit and reinvent more sins and new sins everytime. so God sent a new messenger with a new Holy Book. but yet again the same thing happened. this cycle of God sending His messengers and man deviating from the path of God, has become a routine.

when Torah was sent for mankind, people meddled with it. History repeated itself with Bible and finally u have the Qu'ran. now all of us should look and observe some of the similarities in all of these. what we may discover may surprise us.

why dont we read other's Holy Books and take all the goodness from all Holy Books and leave the differences. then as we have come with the similarities -- we can make a fresh start and that will in itself gaurantee that this earth we live in will be a blissful Paradise. all religions have 1 UNDERLYING MESSAGE -- BE GOOD AND DO GOOD.

Answer 2

Of course it did...grossly. He's got to be kidding that the Qur'an is the true word of God. It was stolen from the true scriptures 600 years later.

Its as false as the Book of Mormon


P.S. Addition to respond:

You said:
Chris C. can you elaborate.

"It was stolen from the true scriptures ..."

By the same argument you have to concede that Jesus stole from the Torah. (not that i believe that) anything short of that is hypocritical.


Christianity did not "steal" or plagerize the Torah or the Old Testament. It is exactly the same book. Nothing has been changed or re-written. I have read the Qur'an. Bible stories from the Old and New Jewish and Christian writings have been re-written and compiled to fill its pages. That is what is meant by plagerize.
Not to mention the fact that it was written several hundred years after these other texts. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see which is genuine.

I know you already know all of this but just can't bring yourself to accept truth. Make yourself believe lies and call me to task to "explain" my opinion. In the end Truth will prevail. God Bless

Oh, and one last thing. Jesus Christ, being God, the Son...the second Divine person of the Holy Trinity...could not steal or plagerize something He created. Muhammad was only a man.

Answer 3

Christians take their information about Jesus from the Bible, which includes the Old and New Testaments and interrupted by men (It Mean the trueness of information may be in doubt)
These contain four biblical narratives covering the life and death of Jesus. They have been written, according to tradition, respectively by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. They are placed at the beginning of the New Testament and comprise close to half of it.
Encyclopedia Britannica notes that none of the sources of his life and work can be traced to Jesus himself; he did not leave a single known written word. Also, there are no contemporary accounts written of his life and death. What can be established about the historical Jesus depends almost without exception on Christian traditions, especially on the material used in the composition of the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke, which reflect the outlook of the later church and its faith in Jesus.
BUT SEE QUR’AN say you reality and all about truth because this is they only source that no man has interrupted it its pure ALLAH’s word The Quran says in reference to the status of Jesus as a Messenger:
God says in the Quran regarding the Trinity:
"People of the Book (Jews and Christians)! Do not exceed the limits in your religion, and attribute to God nothing except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was only a Messenger of God, and His command that He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in God and in His Messengers, and do not say: ‘God is a Trinity.' Give up this assertion; it would be better for you. God is indeed just One God. Far be it from His glory that He should have a son. To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth. God is sufficient for a guardian" (Quran 4:171).

Answer 4

the Quran is a bad copy from the Bible.. the Quran mentioned Mary the mother of jesus it was daugther of Aaron's family and that's fake surah Al Imran.. and the Quran mixed beliefs from arabian pagans in special the woshirp to the Black stone or Kabah.. the Quran says Jesus was not crucifixied.. that's a big lie.. The Quran says Adam and Eve were forgiven by God just read genesis 2 u will find that's not true.. and other the Quran sometimes it's hard to understand in the second chapter 2 or surah 2 Muhammad says the christians and jews will go to the paraside if they do good things and believe in One God.. and after that muhammad says the muslims must fight againts the christians and jews till to converted them or they have to pay a tax 9:5 quran and this chapter God says they will be killed by the muslims hand

Answer 5

The Torah and the bible go hand in hand like a Caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Koran is similar to the rules and regs and law of the old testament, were it goes wrong is Jesus showed up and offered a better covenant with his HOLY SPIRIT AS A PROMISE, the Muslims don't have that and the Jews either , yet, the bible says the Jews have been hardened for a period of time so the Gospel could go around the world,and it is!

Answer 6

the Quran, bible n Torah are all the word of Alah/God..
the thingy is that .. bible n Torah have been tempered with n they arent anymore the word of God since many popes n rabbis have made their own additions...
but the miracle of Islam.. the Quran .. is just the way it was revealed some 1400 yrs ago,... not a word of it has been changed.... n thats waht makes ISlam so pure n Ultimate truth!!!!!!

Answer 7

Did the Torah plagiarise from the Epic of Gilgamesh?

It seems religion has always been an out with the old and in with the new type of thing.

Answer 8

It doesn't make sense that the Qur'an plagarizes the Bible when it's the same author (well... except that the Bible has been seriously tampered with by the hands of man)

Answer 9

it is like the windows operating systems;is windows ME copied from 98?or is XP copied from ME or 2000? certainly not copied, but has developed and answers more requests.

Answer 10

yeah, its pretty ridiculous.

but tell an ignorant bum that the streets are made of gold in Caracas and he'll beleive it. he has no way of finding out without being there himself