Alexiev wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 9:27 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 4:24 pm
If God speaks, He's more than capable of making Himself clear...even to his fallible creatures. Do not think that God stutters.
Really? How does He speak to you? Does He appear in a burning bush. saying, "I am what I am"? Does He speak through the Bible? If so, do you read it in Hebrew, or Greek or Aramaic?
In many ways, and pre-eminently, in the person of Jesus Christ. See Hebrews 1: 1-3.
Paul's letters weren't so different from the Quran.
Totally different. Different in content, and different in structure.
Translations of the Quran are notoriously bad, because no Muslim would translate.
Then Mohammed is not a prophet to anybody but Arabic speakers. To everybody else, he's incomprehensible, you're saying. And that's bad, because as you know, the Koran is the lone "miracle" that is supposed to validate his credentials. Without it, he would not be recognizable as a prophet at all, even to Arabic speakers. So to most of the world, he will
never be a prophet, if what you say is correct. They cannot perceive his "miracle,"and thus have no reason to believe the words ascribed to him in the Koran.
But I'll bet you think he's supposed to be a prophet to everybody. But he can't be, if what you say is true.
How can the Bible be literally true after being translated so many times?
Because translations (proper ones) are not translations of translations, but translations of the text. As such, the more of them there are, the more accurate the translations possible become.
And no book in the history of the world has been more often, more carefully translated than the Bible. That's just an empirical fact. You might argue you don't agree with what the Bible says, but you can't fault the effort put into translating what was said. Literally nothing has had more, or more careful, or more expert attention more often.