The authors of the Bible and Koran would have been blown away by the technology of a wheel-barrel. Why believe
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agreed.\n\nhowever, it's not the guys who are being followed as such, it's the mass-marketing done by the early followers that the religions have lasted so long. It's engrained in the culture and the fear of being the non-conformist, the guy who questions and doesn't blindly follow with the rest of the herd and becoming therefore an outcast was strong enough to ensure that entire nations have gone on to revere one person or the other without thinking too hard about it - and passed it on to their children of course.
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Muslims believe that Bible was changed from its original version hence all these contradictions.
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If we'd invented God recently he would probably be a bit more tech savvy. Since people are hanging onto the God invented a few thousand years ago he's a little behind the times. Writing on stone tablets was probably cutting edge stuff back then. Funny question!
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Because the Bible is a book that demands life-changing action, and declares that we are morally responsible to someone greater than ourselves.  If man can prove the Book false, he can do whatever he pleases!
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No logical or historical evidences at all u will find against his prophecy.. because he is a true prophet...\n\nActually, i wanna answer the question without the word "not".. also by logic...\n\nMuhammad was an illiterate man (He couldn't read or write).. Allah sent Gabriel the angel to him to recite the Qur'an for him.. He saved the Qur'an in his mind.. he recited it for people.. people saved it in thier minds.. then they wrote it.. later, actually after 1400 years or more.. people discovers some facts in it.. some equations.. and some scientific facts...\n\nThe facts and the scientific facts are somehow hard to understand.. but the word repetitions in it are very strange and splendid.. visit this page please to read some:\nhttp://www.miraclesofthequran.com/mathematical_01.html\n\nafter u read it the logic says immediately how can a man compose such a book only in his mind (consider it a normal book) although he is illiterate....\n\nfor the up to date discovered miracles in Qur'an visit this site:\nhttp://www.miraclesofthequran.com
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Every religion has an armageddon story. Every religion promises some sort of ascension... but the details of the story differs... every religion's mystical prophecies is humbug to somebody
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The men who created God have showed the faults of their intellect and understanding of what was really going on. We have since learned that some of the things that they thought were wrong. They were dummies. So when mistakes are found in the Bible  people will come up with all sorts of self created explanations and excuses. Just look at some of the ridiculous answers they have given here.
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Because the Bible was created by people. It is not straight from the lips of God. Therefore it has as many versions as there were people interested in writing about it.
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The Bible was written by people who are known to make their stories seem more exciting by adding violence.
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Just some white lies maybe. Moses and his lads would'nt have been able to comprehend the scientific terms and proofs of evolution.
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maybe he's an atheist and did not believe in bible. Maybe that's the reason why he further speculated, and formed theories about the world.
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There is "prophecy" in anything people are gullible enough to believe.  Bones, Dice, Cards, Stars, Chicken guts, sayings of 'oracles' at Delphi, tea leaves.  ALL of these things prey (not pray) on the stupidity of people who want answers to the unanswerable, the future, the unresolved past.  Be a skeptic, and ask questions like this one, and do not believe anything just because "it is written", look at the bible contradictions within itself!
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Your question also begs a more basic question:  regardless of version, timing, or translation, human beings wrote the contents of, and chose and assembled, the texts that were called The Bible.  (Same with the Talmud, and the Koran.)  So it's reasonable to ask, why do so many believe it to be God's word?  I mean, it could be.  But why do people today so strongly believe it to be so, with such certainty?  When all they have is other people's word for it?  It is indeed remarkable, and hard to understand.
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The Buy-Bull is an interesting piece of fiction. The problem is that people actually believe what is written and are working very hard to make what is contained in it a reality. The fact that it has as it's stated and sought after goal, THE END OF THE WORLD, makes it a dangerous bit of fantasy because in the nuclear age, some portion of the more zealous of the biblically co-opted may just try to fulfill this ignoble goal. The Buy-Bull needs to be totally marginalized if Humanity is to survive. You can toss the blue eye-shadowed one's Qur'an in the fire as well, for the same reason.
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Many Christians, Jews and Muslims believe that God authored the bible. They believe in the inerrantacy of the bible because it is claimed to be inspired by God himself. If the bible is inerrant, without error, then they reason that  the bible must be literally true. The problem for them then is to interpret the bible so any inconsistancies can be explained within the entire bible when read as a whole continuous work. The bible was written by 40 or more individuals over perhaps 1500 years. Reading it as a whole continuous work inspired by God, does not leave room for the evolution of religious thought not to mention the evolution of the Universe and Mankind. This is "Group Think' on a global scale. I am not saying that the bible is not inspired by God, but it should be read in literary form not literal form. In the area of ethics and morals I believe the bible is more literal in nature. God communicates directly with his creation through Science, there is no middle man. Scripture has man in the middle, communicating ideas with his own limited understanding of the world. When fundamentalists are confronted with the science of evolution, they just do not believe it. Some will try to find ways to expain the Universe so it is in agreement with the bible. Examples would be that radioisotope dating is wrong or the Universe was created to look billions of years old when it is less than 10,000 years old. It does seem ridiculous to reasonable people.
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Simply, no.  The Koran is not a prophetic book, but the Bible is.
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In adventures and religious myths everything is possible. Don't try to give rational reasons for it. Many things could have inspired the storytellers: metheors, comets etc.