Is there any organized Sunni Islamic group today that dissents from the position that the Koran is
Uncreated? It seems that all arguments about the essential differences between Islam and Christianity
come back to this foundational chasm. The Bible is a record of the God of History of the Christians and
the Jews-the Koran records the literal words of God.

Posted by razib at December 30, 2002 02:02 AM| TrackBack | Email this article
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The question of “Biblical Inerrancy” is really the same question – some Christian groups believe that the
Bible is the revelation given by God to man. See: href=”http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:5zl9f4p1pT4C:www.reformed.org/documents/icbi.html+bibli
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(the cached article for the first listing on Google searching for “Biblical Inerrancy”)

Posted by: Anthony at December 30, 2002 07:56 AM

not totally, look at the statement and it indicate that the spirit of god guides people toward inerrancy. the
koran was the words of god, given to muhammed via gabriel. it was as if god was dictating, not guiding
people toward absolute accuracy. the more important point though is that muslims consider the Koran
more than just a record-because it HAS ALWAYS BE IN EXISTANCE, like god himself.

Posted by: razib at December 30, 2002 12:49 PM

I don’t get how the uncreatedness of the koran is the source of differences between Christianity and Islam.

I’m more of the view that the interpretation of texts is highly mutable, particularly religious texts. The
bible and the koran mean exactly what I say they mean (so long as i can convince a few million others).

Posted by: Ikram Saeed at January 1, 2003 09:30 PM