Isn't it obvious that the Bible and the Koran were written by primitive Middle Eastern men?

Question

Isn't it obvious? the misogyny gives it away.

Answer 1

Well, lets see both Book's authenticity

**-The Authenticity of the Bible-**

The belief in the original holy Books revealed to the Prophets before Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is one of the six pillars of Faith in Islaam:

"Say (O Muslims): "We beleive in Allaah and that which has been sent down to us and that which has been sent down to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and to the Tribes, and that which has been given to Moses and Jesus, and that which has been given to the Prophets from the Lord. We make no distinction bewtween any of them, and to Him we have submitted (to Islaam)"" [Qur'aan 2:136]

The Qur'aan mentioned the names of some of these Books: Scripture of Abraham, the Torah, the Psalms, and the Gospel. The Cripture of Abraham were completely lost, while some parts of the original Torah, Psalms and Gospel are still preserved in the Bible mixed with what people's own hands wrote as confirmed in the Qur'aan:

"Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands and then say: "This is from Allaah/God", to purchase with is a little price! Woe to them for what their hands have written and woe to them for that they earn thereby". [Qur'aan 2:79]

The Bible was corrupted. Most parts of the gospel were lost, the remainings where kept, and more thigns were adding by

There original Torah and Gospel are the literal Word of Allaah/God, revealed to his Prophets Moses and Jesus (Peace be upon them), whereas the books of the Bible are merely narratives or stories written in the third person, i.e. the sayings and deeds of the Prophets were wreitten by historians and not by the Prophets themselves. For example, in the book of Deuteronomy is on of the five books attribute to the Prophet Moses (peace be upon him). If this book was really reaveled to the Prophet Moses (peace be upon him), or even written by him, how could it mention hid death?:

"And Moses the servent of the Lord died there in Moad, as the Lord had said. He burried him in Moad, in the valley opposite Beth Pear, but to theis day no-one knows where his grave is. Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died...
2(Deutronomy 34:5-7)

The Gospel revealed to the Prophet Jesus was lost and many gospels were written. The chose four gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and destroyed or banned the rest. Althought these gospels include some framents of the original Gospel, it is very clear that non of them is the Gospel of the Prophet Jesus(peace be upon him), because:

1-All the four gospels contain many contradictions and errors while the Gospel of Prophet Jesus(peace be upon him) which is the Word of Allaah/God was free form contradicctions and errors.

2-These gospels are different accoutns or reports of the life of Prophet Jesus(peace be upon him), written by men. Thney mention his birth, his allege crucifixion and death, etc, which cannot be mentioned in the Gospel revealed to the Prophet Jesus(peace be upon him) during his mission.

**-The Authenticity of the Qur'aan-**

Allaah has promised to protect the Qur'aan form corruption and adulteration:

"No doubt We have sent down the Qur'aan and surely We will gaurd it (from corruption) [Qur'aan 15:9]

Allaah has truly fufilled His Promise and for more than fourteen hundred years, not a single word or even letter has been changed. The Qur'aan exists in its original Arabic text and not even mixed with the words of Prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him). It is purely and completely the Word of Allaah.

No honest scholar, Muslim or non-Muslim has ever raised any doubt about the purity and genuineness of the Qur'aan. The Qur'aan has been transmitted to us in the most reliable ways. It was written down and learnt by hundreds of people during the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him). One of th ecopies of the Qur'aan which was written a fews years after the death of Prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him) is still in existence in Tashkent. Furthuremore, since the time of Prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him), thousands and hundreds of thousands of Muslims have memorized the Qur'aan in succcession. (Theres a bit more to this, download this file, http://rapidshare.com/files/9164850/The_Authenticity_of_the_Bible___the_Qur_aan.pdf.html )

Now this is just a bit about the Qur'aan, here is the real stuff.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=10197&ln=eng

Also
Evidence that the Qur'aan is the Word of Allaah
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13804&ln=eng
Who wrote the Qur’aan and how was it put together?
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=10012&ln=eng
The revelation of the Qur’aan in seven styles (ahruf, sing. harf)
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=5142&ln=eng
Texts of the Revelation which confirm that Islam is a divinely-revealed religion
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=84352&ln=eng
http://www.angelfire.com/il2/islamicpage/science

Answer 2

Who knows who wrote the Koran, probably someone who
thinks they've been reincarnated. The Bible was written by
Jesus' closest friends who were there with Him when He was
a human on earth, and the Holy Spirit inspired the others. Each
of the different books written by different people, still mold together in the events that took place. The Dead Sea Scrolls
that were unearthed from a cave some years ago were word
for word like the scriptures we have today. His friends were
Jewish who converted to Christianity when told His Word was
for all peoples, Jew and Gentile alike.

Answer 3

Well, no-one has ever denied it, at least literally! But I think the same of course, they are not from God, they are just written by men so to influence others, in the name of the Almighty. God would never need to appoint someone to write something for His people. Just imagine that if you are a computer programmer, and create a software, like the sims. Would you create a smaller software to go and fix the bigger software, or fix the bigger software yourself by changing the programming??? Of course you would do the latter. It's crazy to send "prophets" to write books on God's behalf and create confusion. If God wanted us to know something he would have put it in our DNA...

Answer 4

Ofcourse not the bible was written by Christian and the Koran was written by middle-eastern!

Answer 5

bible,...made over 300 years after "jesus" died in rome by the council of Nicea...why dont ppl learn history.....

and Utuk, christianity did nothing but lower womans status in the world, for instance cutting the breast of any woman (christian or non) that openly questioned the bible and didn't well...run!
Claiming them as "witches" and burning them and hanging them form merely "thinking for themselves"
Chritstianity was the wort thing to happen to wemon back then. In paganism they were almost worshipped, and when christianity took over, the tables turned 180 degrees.

Answer 6

I agree that there's a lot of misogyny in the Bible. But there is also a lot of beaty and great literature.

Answer 7

Yes, you are absolutely right! The Bible was written by primitive and uneducated Middle Eastern men, or most of it. They did not have access to science, computers or libraries full of books written by scientists.
When the world great thinkers and scientists all firmly believed that the world was flat like a table until Christopher Columbus proved his theory that it was round like a globe, the part of the Bible written by a farmer from Tekoa named Isaiah, 2100 years before that wrote:
22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. (Isaiah 40:22)
When the most learned astronomers and star gazers such as Ptolemy and Kepler, all confidentially believed that you can count the number of stars, and produced maps showing its exact locatiion and said there are only 1056 stars, another primitive farmer of Middle East, called Jeremiah wrote around 700 BC:
(that means about 2300 years before the invention of telescope by Gallileo Gallilei in 1610)
As the host of heaven (meaning stars) cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me. (Jeremiah 33:22).
Another primitive Middle Eastern man by the name of Moses wrote:
Can you send out lightnings, that they may go,
And say to you, ‘Here we are!’? (Job 38:35)
That, by the way, is written 3500 years ago around the year 1500 BC. so about 3300 years before Benjamin Franklin proved that there is electrical current in lightning, and that electricity can be
harnessed and used for our benefits.
Today as we send emails through the internet, that is exactly what we do, sending lightnings or electrical currents through the air and with the right electrical equipments, we exploint those lightnings on errands all over the world with our messages, and they return to us in the next instant ready to serve us more!
There are too many more scientifical facts like those to mention here, but just want to tell you that the fact that those primitive Middle Eastern people wrote the Bible only proves that their claim is true:
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Tim. 3:16)

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation,[b] for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God[c] spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
(2 Peter 1:20, 21)

Thanks for pointing that out, my friend! It only emphasize how wonderful God is: He can use primitive and uneducated men of the Middle East to write such a wonderful book, which has been an inspiration to many scholars to write thousands of books which brought hope and comfort and assurance to millions of people throughout the ages.

I for one was once a hopeless, aimless and miserable young atheist, but because of the book written by those primitive Middle Eastern men, called prophets and apostles, I am now a happy, hopeful and healthy man, one of millions in the world who are firmly waiting for the last few prophecies written in the book. Hundreds of other prophecies have been amazingly fulfilled to the letter, so there is no reason why the last few will not come to pass!

Answer 8

Yeah

Answer 9

What misogyny? Christianity did more for the liberation of women that any other movement in history. Look it up.

Answer 10

Of course. It is also obvious that god doesn't exist, but I suppose if you are willing to ignore that, why not ignore everything else, and claim that faith needs no logic.