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By the way, let me remind you again that the holy Koran presents a model of multiple universes. And heaven means the universe, not paradise:
https://www.answering-christianity.c...p?topic=3772.0 Thus the Holy Qur'an once again corrects the false Bible on the market. |
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Hey, Emre
That Answering Christianity Research Centre that you keep spamming links to has a section ranting about "the 9/11 lie" being "100% an Israeli Mossad Operation!", using drones and thermite, and other such tosh. Care to comment on this? Do you agree or disagree? Do you think it may undermine the credibility of your preferred source? |
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I share my own posts from that site's forum.
As for 9/11, it was an attack by the Illuminati, which means it was the plan of a supra-national organization. There were no airplanes in that attack. Here is an article in Turkish on the subject: http://michaelsikkofield.blogspot.co...-6-milyar.html http://michaelsikkofield.blogspot.co...milyar_29.html |
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So you're once again calling it a "false Bible on the market"
So why does the Quran keep referencing Christians as "people of the book" but yet they worship Jesus? Why does the Quran call Jesus holy, but refers to Christians as people of the book? Your Quran says Mohammed is a sinner in chapter 48:Verse 1) Lo. We hath given thee (Mohammed) a signal victory, 2)That Allah may forgive thee of thy sin that which is past and that which is to come, and may perfect his favour unto thee, and may guide thee on a right path, 3) and that Allah may help thee with strong help. Clearly admitting evidence from your book that Mohammed is a sinner and clearly he is not holy. Yes, this is from your book. How was Mohammed born 4 years after his father's death? How is that possible? Yet, this bit of information is from your book. One of the 4 Islamic sects say one can make this type of claim up to 10 years. Amazing! |
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On 29JUL2022, 'Gaetan' said: "We all know here that the moderators are for the use of firearms and they don't mind if some people recieve a bullet in their head." A man's best friend is his dogma. |
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Thank God we're getting this alternative viewpoint so aren't trapped in a bubble. Yes this is much better for free speech then... like this not happening.
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Although there's not a Quaker molecule in my body, I must opine:
Friend Jay, thee ought not say "prepare to have your body parts handed to you" in speaking to Friend Emre. He would not recognize a metaphor if it (I hope it does not) bit him on this nether end. Thee must remember that he hears us through a translating machine. And too, although I hope all will be well, Turkistan has a history of dismemberment that thee must consider -- in charity, of course. |
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Again;
"Sateh سطح" in Arabic means surface however this surface can have any shape.or example, surface of the moon means " Sateh Al-Kamar سطح القمر " and has the shape of a sphere. "Sateh سطح" could have any shape. it could have the shape of a saddle. Quran 50:7 And the Earth We have spread it out, and set thereon mountains standing firm, and have produced therein every kind of lovely pairs (of plants). The Quran says that God spread out the Earth 'والارض مددناها' meaning increase in surface area. 'Madda' in Arabic means 'spread out' and is also found in Quran 25:45 describing shadows as "non-static"; however this "non-static" was also mistranslated to 'flat'. The Quran says that God spread out Earth, that is, increased the surface area during formation. Our solar system is 4.57 billion years old. Earth started accreting concurrently with the sun and our neighbouring planets 4.57 bln years ago. However during the accretion process the radius of Earth was not spontaneously 6400 km; but rather started a few kilometers long and progressively increased. The surface area is a function of the radius (surface area = 4πR2), that is, as the radius increases the surface area increases. So the Quran correctly described the surface area as increasing. (This is contrary to the Bible where the creation of Earth was spontaneous.)" https://www.miracles-of-quran.com/earth.html |
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So, The Holy Quran corrects the false Bible again.
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On 29JUL2022, 'Gaetan' said: "We all know here that the moderators are for the use of firearms and they don't mind if some people recieve a bullet in their head." A man's best friend is his dogma. |
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Fun fact. It doesn't come up a lot but all the secrets of the universe are actually contained in the instruction manual for the obscure 1968 Milton Bradley Board Game "Dynamite Shack."
I know, I was shocked too but go look it up, all there. The Unified Field Theory of Everything, the Meaning of Life, a workable Israel/Palestine peace treaty, the solution to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, all there in plain English with no parables, no metaphors, clear as day. |
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So when you say it refers to an "egg-shaped" Earth, that's an interpretation on your part -- a decision about what ambiguous words and phrases should mean. Taken as a whole, all the relevant passages from the Qur'an seem to point to a belief in a flat Earth. This produces the least strained interpretation of each relevant passage.
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So to sum up: You're clearly interpreting the Qur'an. You're not relying upon some self-evidently clear reading of the text. You're making decisions about what important words and phrases ought to mean where various readings are possible. Worse, you're doing so with a particular predetermined goal in mind. You're clearly (mis)interpreting the Bible, clearly motivated by a desire to make it seem inconsistent with the Qur'an and inconsistent with science. You don't know much about science -- just enough to think you've supported your religious beliefs. When professional scientists (as I am) try to correct your misunderstanding, you accuse them of being stubborn and closed-minded. Unfortunately you're not some notable religious sage. You aren't departing from or rising above the sophistry of sectarian Islam; you're fully mired in it. You simply believe your choices are the right ones. It's ordinary sectarianism. Worse, you're being led around by the nose by polemic literature that gets the facts wrong, as such literature invariably does. It's giving you a selective, incorrect view of science. It's giving you a distorted view of Christianity. But you're the one arrogantly presuming that steeping yourself in such nonsense makes you smarter than everyone else. |
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. Sri Ramakrishna Even in the valley of the shadow of death two and two do not make six. Leo Tolstoy |
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Everything says everything if you "interpret it" enough.
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Emre_1974tr,
Which one of the following sentences are correct? 1) Allah is a liar. The Quran said he put down weights on the earth and we still have earthquakes. 2) The Quran lies. It says Allah put down weights on the earth and we still have earthquakes. 3) Mohammad writes lies. Allah never told Mohammad anything about weights and we have earthquakes. |
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The social illusion reigns to-day upon all the heaped-up ruins of the past, and to it belongs the future. The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd, 1895 (from the French) |
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For all three items: you have claimed so, but you can only support it with heavy “interpretation” - that is obviously over-interpreted. Try again, this time without interpretation. You could present some verses, and ask what we think the verses mean, and then we’ll see how obvious your interpretation is. |
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After some more reading of the Quran there are verses in chapter 18 about a man named Dhul-Qarnain reaching a place where the sun sets.
Verses 83-86:And they ask you about Dhul-Qarnain. Say "I shall recite to you something of his story." Verily, We established him in the earth, and We gave him the means of everything. So he followed a way. Until, when he reached the setting place of the sun, he found it setting in a spring of black muddy (or hot) water. And he found near it a people. Sunan Abu Dawud 3991- Abu Dharr said: I was sitting behind the Apostle of Allah who was riding a donkey while the sun was setting. He asked: Do you know where this sets? I replied: Allah and his Apostle know best. He said: It sets in a spring of warm water. There's how Mohammed interprets in his all-wise fashion. So will your re-interpretation explain it away like the flat earth? |
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I give you the round flat egg shaped earth! But should it be over easy?
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The Quran states the following provably wrong, non-subjective falsehoods in a non-parable way.
1. It describes a geocentric solar system. 2. Similar to the Bible is describes the Earth as being created is six days. 3. It describes the Earth as being created before the stars. 4. It states that 7 Earths exist. 5. It describes the Earth and Moon as the same size and same distance from Earth. 6. It claims the Moon generates its own light. 7. It decrees that followers follow rituals that make no sense if the length of a day is variable, such as it is at higher latitudes. 8. Humans are created from clay. 9. Human descending from a magically created original pair of humans. 10. Sperms comes from the backbone and ribs. 11. Embryos are formed entirely from the semen. 12. It describes the heart as a thinking organ like the brain. 13. How you are supposed to face toward Mecca makes no sense if the Earth is round. 14. It describes salt and fresh water as not mixing in nature. 15. It describes a massive wall of iron as existing in Biblical (or Quranian or whatever) times. 16. It tells of Crucifixion occurring in Egypt at the time of Moses. 17. It repeats the oft repeated Noah flood myth. 18. It has a description of humans being turned into apes as punishment for breaking the Sabbath. 19. The whole flying horse thing which is in the Quran and I don't know why you try to lie and say it doesn't. 20. The inheritance rules don't add up mathematically, even if you round the numbers off. 21. Apparently if you have bangs you're a liar. These are not "interpretations" or parables or "colorful language" or metaphors or some ancient people's interpretations of anything. They are falsehoods and lies. |
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