The Bible unfolds in how it reeals God, the Koran does not. How does that affect the believers? or does it?

Question

The Bible unfolds, God creates the world and mankind, there is the fall, the flood and the scattering of nations and a series of covenants with Noah, with Abraham, with Moses, with David and the coming new covenant and the Messiah

The Koran begins with an inditement against idolatry without explaining who God is and the first sura is about the golden calf. The various suras do not necessarily build on each other but like psalms or proverbs touch here and there. And the stories of the Koran although they refer to people in Old and New Testaments are different than the Bible so it is not clear that it builds on itself or the Bible. Or does it?

How does this building or non building affect the way the various believers in the two believe and act? The books of the BIble rest on each other. The Koran appears to rest on itself... or does it

Answer 1

They're both filled with ignorant nonsense.

Answer 2

Idolatry is the worst sin in islam..so i can imagine.. it was only right sura to start with when complilation of the Koran began... this does not confuse the believers for muslims are taught the stages of it revelation to the prophet (pbuh)

It's was revealed according to the events of the time..to meet the challenges that were met by the prophet when converting people... it thats why it is not compiled in sequences with topics related following each other... a true devine revelation.

Some of the stories resemble those of the bible to be specific old testament.... because islam is related to some level... to christianity both religions share a big number of prophets like Noah, David, Solomon, Moses, Isa(jesus) etc..

But the Bible was tampered with by man with time.. to suit their needs... cant say much about the sequence thou, at the end of the day its all about belief the way the Holy books were written is all up to God we are only he's creations

Answer 3

I don't know how it affects the way the believers behave, but it has a significant affect on how these books are read and understood. In my religious studies class, we all struggled with the Koran. Because it's not chronological, and lacks transitional phrases even within the Surahs, it can be pretty incomprehensible and difficult to read. I think that is why the Western world sometimes has a strained relationship with Islam...there is a lot of misunderstanding, and the Koran does not necessarily faciliate understanding.

Answer 4

In the very first Surah, Al Fatihah, God is revealed. :)

Secondly the Quran is chronological because it has a Medinan phase and a Meccan phase. The Medinan phase is first - talking of various prophets and peoples that were before Muhammad. Then the early history in which Muhammad is a part of. The Meccan phase is after he migrated to Medinah because the situation the had gotten so rough that He needed to leave or be killed.

The verses in the Quran came as they were needed and so they may not seem chronological. But as a whole the Surahs are indeed chronological with the verses in them also.

Answer 5

Only two contradictions of the New Testament have been mentioned, but others will be referenced when the Trinity, Divinity of Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship of Jesus, Original Sin and Atonement are reviewed.
How could the "inspired words" of God get the genealogy of Jesus incorrect (See Matthew 1:6-16 where it states 26 forefathers up to Prophet David, and Luke 3:23-31 says 41 in number). Or for that matter, give a genealogy to Jesus who had NO father? See II Kings 19:1-37, now read Isaiah 37:1-38. Why is it that the words of these verse are identical? Yet they have been attributed to two different authors, one unknown and the other is Isaiah, who are centuries apart; and yet, the Christians have claimed these books to be inspired by God.
I looked up the word Easter in the Nelson Bible dictionary and learned that the word "Easter" (as mentioned in Acts 12:4) is a mistranslation of "pascha," the ordinary Greek word for "Passover." As, you know Passover is a Jewish celebration not a Christian holiday. I think human hands, all to human, had played havoc with the Bible.
From the brief points mentioned above, and the fact that Biblical scholars themselves have recognized the human nature and human composition of the Bible (Curt Kuhl, The Old Testament: Its Origin and Composition, PP 47, 51, 52), there should exist in the Christian’s mind some acceptance to the fact that maybe every word of the Bible is not God’s word.
As a side note to this subject, let me mention that some Christians believe that the Bible was dictated to Prophet Muhammad (SAW) by a Christian monk, and that is why some of the biblical accounts are in the Quran. After some research, I found that this could not have happened because there were no Arabic Bible in existence in the 6th century of the Christian era when Muhammad (SAW) lived and preached. Therefore, no Arab, not even Prophet Muhammad (SAW) who was absolutely unlettered and unlearned, would have had the opportunity to examine the written text of the Bible in his own language.

Answer 6

Well, I think that you have the Bible right. You know more about the Koran than I do, but I've read enough to think that Mohammed-- if he was even the one responsible for the Koran that we see today, was a madman. I saw it as what you said, "touching here and there" with no particular purpose to the writings.

The Bible properly understood, edifies the believer. It strengthens the trust that we are supposed to have with God. God proves his ability to fulfill his word, and we are given unfulfilled things to look forward to. It tells of the coming Messiah, and then shows the Messiah as being the accomplisher of those things; all the things that he was supposed to accomplish with enough mystery to fool the Jews, which was another one of his promises-- they wouldn't understand and recognize him and that came true!

So I am glad that there is another person out there who knows which book to believe.

Answer 7

like each and every of the counterfeiting demons posing as God Islam mentions the Bible to get the reader to flow around the Bible. The seven pillars of Islam replace the salvation message that God taught us in the time of the Bible and could reason the Muslim to flow to hell.

Answer 8

In a way the Quran (Koran) is a bit like the Book of Mormon, they both mix Biblical truth with conjecture to sound authoritative..... however the reader does not have to make up their own mind, in both cases the 'thinking' is already done for them, whereas the Bible encourages the reader to have an inquiring mind.

Answer 9

The Bible is a mish mash of various religions, forced together by translation.

The Creation stories and the Flood are Babylonian, Abraham is Canaanite, Moses was Egyptian and Christianity has more to do with Greek Mythology than anything remotely Jewish.

Answer 10

It affects people who are rational and are really seeking the truth.
it affects people who uses their minds to see if what they are reading makes sense or not.

Answer 11

No book can ever reveal God.