10-21-2004, 12:02 AM
to ronnie- whenever muslims recite prayers, they recite surahs right out of the quran word by word. if the person leading the prayers makes a mistake an individual behind him will correct him. this is the reason why the quran cannot be changed. it is memorized by many muslims all around the world young and old. if you go to any number of learned muslims and tell them to recite a particular verse, it will all be the same. yes there might be diffrences in english versions only because there are words in arabic that cannot be found in the english vocabulary. arabic is a very deep language. the oldest known quran i believe is sitting in the museum of cairo. it matches what we have today. the problem with the bible is that it was changed by hands of men . why is it that the 4 canonical gospels in the bible begin with "according to". it seems to me that they were opinions according to these writers. and this why they some of them contradict one another. some of these men did not even know christ. did you know thet there were originally 70 gospels but only 4 were chosen . why i don't know. the catholic church tried to hide many of them because a lot of them told the truth and they feared losing their powers over the people if the people knew the truth. i have heard many christians refute the gospel of barnabus even though it was translated from its original armaic to english by a couple of christian individuals. barnabus was with christ unlike theother so called disciples. the christianity we have today is the christianity found by paul mixed with roman paganism. even though you are protestant , protestants are it self is born from catholicism. i suggest you open up your mind and truly contemplate christianity and look at its origin and compare it with what jesus really said. remember that back in those days there were many ideas that had god/son relationships. for e.g. troy being the son of roman god hercules. this is where christianity got this idea so that it would appeal to the romans. peace.