tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38413397.post3418507865047110622..comments2023-12-19T15:10:02.866-08:00Comments on ex cathedra: Old and New Testaments, Muslim-styleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38413397.post-89322831429732921932012-09-14T10:30:35.873-07:002012-09-14T10:30:35.873-07:00It is like that. Another way I’ve thought of it is...It is like that. Another way I’ve thought of it is as changing covenants. In Christianity, God establishes one covenant with the Jews, and later swaps it with a new covenant with all of humanity. Islam presumes a third covenant in Mecca, which changes yet again and again, in small ways and large, by the time Mo is firmly established in Medina!<br /><br />In counterpoint to the common charge that the Bible is just as violent as the Qur’an, I’ve thought it interesting to note how the bible progresses from the violent OT to the far less violent NT – while the Q-book makes its progression /in the opposite direction/.<br /><br />I have never heard a good explanation for why in the jahanna the thing was finally set as longest book to shortest. What in the world could the use possibly be? I suspect that some copyists just decided to tackle their job that way, and it later got mistaken for some sort of wise or divine scheme.<br /><br />--NathanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com