Millions of people used to believe that the earth was flat. Does that mean it is flat?
I've been baffled to hear the argument over and over that Islam must be right because there are so many believers or that there are so many converts. Isn't this logically known as begging the question?
2006-10-14 01:41:27 · 10 answers · asked by Beam 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So the fact that everybody used to believe that what goes up must come down makes it true?
By some arguments made here, the fact that these people believed it would make it true, because "It is more believable?"
That being the case, knowing the scientific facts about the truths I have mentioned, I would caution any of you that use this as an argument.
It suggests to me that there is really little or no real proof for the quran, and therefore those trying to prove it is true are grabbing at straws.
2006-10-14 01:51:22 · update #1
There is obviously some confusion going on out there, judging from preceding answers.
If the book is the testimony of one witness, then that is all the validity it has, no matter how many believe in the book.
If the book is the testimony of several witnesses, it may contain some truths, but people believing in the book does not add to it's validity.
If the Book is the testimony of millions of people who make up a single nation, spanning hundreds of years, written by many authors, yet having a unified testimony from beginning to end, it is the Bible, and stands on it's own merit.
The Bible is true because it is true, not because anyone believes in it. And if no one believed in it at all, it would still be true.
2006-10-14 02:36:03 · answer #1 · answered by claypigeon 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Here's you a web site www.faithfreedom.org learn all you need to know there and make sure you go through the picture gallery, you wouldn't want to miss that, when you get done with all that you will be BAFFLED as to why anybody would "convert" to islam.
2006-10-14 01:50:49 · answer #2 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a million people all testified in court to the same event, would you say it was true?
Each of those people converted because the Muslim faith brought something to them that changed their lives on a personal basis. They didn't do it just be a Muslim, they did it because it affected them to the core.
2006-10-14 01:48:38 · answer #3 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really it prabably that there is some truth to what's being said becuase of the mass number of people
The Bible is correct in everything it says, the only problem non-believers have is that they cant test it using their conventional scientific methods; it can only be tested through faith wich scientist and others absolutely refuse to have.
2006-10-14 01:47:59 · answer #4 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If that is the case, they why isn't "The Da Vinci Code" treated as a new Bible, considering how many people believe it that?
2006-10-14 01:43:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truth stands on its own merits even if every person in the world disagrees.
2006-10-14 01:48:47 · answer #6 · answered by beek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They think they are rightt and you are wrong. Actually,, you believe very much the same things with a different prophet.
2006-10-14 01:46:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not the believers that make the book right; it is the book that makes them believers. The book is right even if no one believed in it. Allah knows and His prophet know it is right. That is enough.
2006-10-14 01:43:41 · answer #8 · answered by daliaadel 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
probably had no choice was either convert or die.
2006-10-14 01:46:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it doesn't. it just makes it more beleivable.
2006-10-14 01:44:12 · answer #10 · answered by sensei D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋