Why the Bible is Divinely Inspired (Why Not the Qu’ran)

Arguments for why the Bible is the inspired Word of God and the Qu’ran, well, not so much. Michael Gleghorn is a research guy with Probe Ministries, so he knows how to research and probe stuff, to figure out such things.

And here’s what he came up with, reasons why he thinks one can suppose that the Bible is indeed the divinely inspired Word of God:

“First, the Bible claims to be an inspired text: ‘All Scripture is inspired by God’ (2 Tim. 3:16). This does not prove that it really is inspired. However, if the Bible nowhere claimed to be inspired, then we would hardly have good reason to believe that it was. Thus, what the text claims for itself is important.

So you see? The Bible is most likely the inspired Word of God because it says so itself, right there in its own pages, and also nowhere does it mention that it is not, which is just as important, as the Probe dude points out.

Furthermore, answering to the question why the Qu’ran can not also be a divinely inspired Scripture, Gleghorn explains:

“If the Bible is inspired by God, then it would seem logically impossible for the Qu’ran to also be divinely inspired. Why? Because both texts teach very different doctrines that are not logically consistent with one another.

“Clearly, both texts cannot be correct, for this would violate the law of non-contradiction. Thus, if the Bible is inspired by God, then it logically follows that the Qu’ran is not.”

And there you have it, logically the Qu’ran can not be inspired by God because if the Bible is instead, which has already been evidenced as per the above, then that law of non-contradiction thing cinches the case.

(He probably should have been more clear about that, though, specifically how that the non-contradiction law only is applicable to inter-contradictions, intra-contradictions not a problem. But I suppose he might have figured that was a given, hardly worth mentioning, really.)

Although, now that I think about it, I reckon some Muslim research guy somewhere could also very well make the flip-side argument for the Qu’ran over the Bible, recording the Almighty’s utmost authentic pronouncements. Verbatim, even, when I read back over this, except for switching the two books.

Well, also that one 2 Tim. 3:16 Bible verse, “all Scripture is inspired by God”, would need to be swapped out for the Qu’ran’s Jonah 10:37, “it was not possible for this Qu’ran to be produced by someone other than Allah”, but yeah… other than that, same same only different.

Now I’m just totally confused about what’s what, and right when Michael Gleghorn had me pretty much convinced, what with his awesome compelling reasons regarding why so, the Bible as God’s authoritative word. Holy shit.

Originally posted at Furibundum.