If you believe the sacred texts of your religion are infallibly true...?

Question

How do you know this? How do you know the texts that other religions claim to be infallibly true are not? Is it based on rationally indemonstrable and therefore unconvincing "faith," or on some allegedly miraculous characteristics of the texts which we can empirically examine?

Answer 1

I am Pagan we do not have Religous texts. we have a way of life.
and a spritual belief system that varies greatly between each of us.

Answer 2

I will explain how the bible was proven to be inspired (infallibly true) in the 3rd century, not the 15TH OR THE 21st., using the facts of history. For there was no "Bible" as we know it but for a long process. It did not fall from the sky.

The Bible is initially approached as any other ancient work. It is not, at first, presumed to be inspired. From textual criticism we are able to conclude that we have a text the accuracy of which is more certain than the accuracy of any other ancient work.
Next we take a look at what the Bible, considered merely as a history, tells us, focusing particularly on the New Testament, and more specifically the Gospels.

We examine the account contained therein of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. Using what is in the Gospels themselves and what we find in extra-biblical writings from the early centuries,

We then take that and together with what we know of human nature (and what we can otherwise, from natural reason alone, know of divine nature), we conclude that either Jesus was just what he claimed to be—God—or he was crazy.

Further, Christ said he would found a Church. Both the Bible (still taken as merely a historical book, not yet as an inspired one) and other ancient works attest to the fact that Christ established a Church with the rudiments of what we see in the Catholic Church today—papacy, hierarchy, priesthood, sacraments, teaching authority, and, as a consequence of the last, infallibility.
Christ’s Church, to do what he said it would do, had to have the character of doctrinal infallibility.

We have thus taken purely historical material and concluded that a Church exists, namely, the Catholic Church, which is divinely protected against teaching doctrinal error. Now we are at the last premise of the argument.
This Catholic Church tells us the
(2)Bible is inspired, and we can take the Church’s word for it precisely because the (1)Church is infallible.

Only after having been told by a properly constituted authority—(1)that is, one established by God to assure us of the truth concerning matters of faith—(2)that the Bible is inspired can we reasonably begin to use it as an inspired book.
http://www.catholic.com/library/Proving_Inspiration.asp

Dizzy? This SUMMARY should clarify:

1) On the first level we argue to the reliability of the Bible insofar as it is history.
2) From that we conclude that an infallible Church was founded.
3) And then we take the word of that infallible Church that the Bible is inspired.
4) This is not a circular argument because the final conclusion (the Bible is inspired) is not simply a restatement of its initial finding (the Bible is historically reliable),
5) and its initial finding (the Bible is historically reliable) is in no way based on the final conclusion (the Bible is inspired).
What I have demonstrated is that without the existence of the Church, we could never know whether the Bible is inspired.

Answer 3

Yes. EVERY LAST WORD. Except for the passages that are obviously wrong, or horridly cruel and barbaric. Those are just allegory, designed to teach you some over-arching lesson about the love of Christ Jesus.

Answer 4

The miraculous charectersics beside the convincing of my own mind made be believe that the Qur'an is infallibly true...see this page:
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/

Answer 5

I know it because of faith and love and the joy in my heart. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!!

Answer 6

because not believing the sacred texts of there religion are infallibly true would mean they would have to admit they where wrong
and evil christian pride would never let them do that

Answer 7

You bring up many good questions.. You should research the literature of Bart D. Ehrman of UNC-Chapel Hill.. His teachings support many of your assertions..

Answer 8

What it seems like your're stating is that we shouldn't believe our scriptures because we haven't studied everyone else's. That would take a while, probably more than a lifetime. When your life has been changed, rather miraculously, what more proof do you need that you're on the right path?

Answer 9

First of all we need to understand that what God says is True! Secondly the book must be the Word of God and not human's. For example Bible was written by man, in contrast Quran was revealed to Prophet Muhammad by Angel Gabriel word by word. Therefore Quran is the Word of God.

Quran has not changed (even one letter) since it was revealed. And this makes the Quran infallibly true. Here is a brief history of compilation of the Quran.

During the life of the Prophet Muhammad (saas) (570-632 CE)

* The Prophet (saas) used to recite the Qur'an before angel Jibreel (Gabriel) once every Ramadan, but he recited it twice (in the same order we have today) in the last Ramadan before his death. Jibreel also taught the Prophet (saas) the seven modes of recitation.
* Each verse received was recited by the Prophet, and its location relative to other verses and surahs was identified by him.
* The verses were written by scribes, selected by the Prophet, on any suitable object - the leaves of trees, pieces of wood, parchment or leather, flat stones, and shoulder blades. Scribes included Ali Ibn Abi Talib, Mu'awiyah Ibn Abi Sufyan, Ubey Ibn Ka'ab, Zayed Ibn Thabit.
* Some of the companions wrote the Qur'an for their own use.
* Several hundred companions memorized the Qur'an by heart.

During the caliphate of Abu Bakr (632-634 CE)

* Umar Ibn Al-Khattab urged Abu Bakr to preserve and compile the Qur'an. This was prompted after the battle of Yamamah, where heavy casualties were suffered among the reciters who memorized the Qur'an.
* Abu Bakr entrusted Zayed Ibn Thabit with the task of collecting the Qur'an. Zayed had been present during the last recitation of the Qur'an by the Prophet to Angel Jibreel (Gabriel).
* Zayed, with the help of the companions who memorized and wrote verses of the Qur'an, accomplished the task and handed Abu Bakr the first authenticated copy of the Qur'an. The copy was kept in the residence of Hafsah, daughter of Umar and wife of the Prophet.

During the caliphate of Uthman (644-656 CE)

* Uthman ordered Zayed Ibn Thabit, Abdullah Ibn Al Zubayr, Saeed Ibn Al-Aas, and Abdur-Rahman Ibn Harith Ibn Hisham to make perfect copies of the authenticated copy kept with Hafsa. This was due to the rapid expansion of the Islamic state and concern about differences in recitation.
* Copies were sent to various places in the Muslim world. The original copy was returned to Hafsa, and a copy was kept in Madinah.

Three stages of dotting and diacritization

* Dots were put as syntactical marks by Abu Al-Aswad Al Doaly, during the time of Mu'awiya Ibn Abi Sufian (661-680 CE).
* The letters were marked with different dotting by Nasr Ibn Asem and Hayy ibn Ya'amor, during the time of Abd Al-Malek Ibn Marawan (685-705 CE).
* A complete system of diacritical marks (damma, fataha, kasra) was invented by Al Khaleel Ibn Ahmad Al Faraheedy (d. 786 CE).

Answer 10

Where do you come off asking about the faith of others?? Why don't you simply examine yours only instead?

Peace be with you!