01-12-2005, 12:40 PM
To all others who have offered responses, let me say that <b>I KNOW</b> what Muslims believe about how the Quran was transmitted. The point of my question to Anyabwile was to emphasize the fact that ALL books were written - in the literal sense - by human hands.
The Quran is no different from any other book.
The only thing that I know and believe was NOT written by human hands were the original 10 commandments given by God to Moses. There, miraculously, God Himself actually "wrote" them down. Other than that, EVERYTHING was written by human hands.
It is only FAITH that prompts or moves any of us to believe that our respective scriptures are more than just the PRODUCT of human thought and invention, but actual divinely REVEALED words. Out of all that I have read, there has never been enough to prove that the Quran was divinely revealed. For all that YOU all have read, there is nothing that proves that the Bible was divinely revealed.
Same for any other religion. There are some things that are taken on faith.
Now, for me and many other Christians, we actually see the manifestation of the things written in the Bible AND FOR US, that serves as proof.
But anyway, point being.... ALL books were WRITTEN by human hands. But it is faith that leads you all to believe that an angel actually appeared to your prophet and spoke the words to him which he then recited to others.