Monday, December 21, 2009

Miracles - why the double standard?

The splitting of the moon is a claimed miracle done by the prophet Muhammed in Islamic tradition. Slice a celestial body a leave it hanging in orbit - now that's an impressive miracle.

I would like to know whether those who believe in the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ (or any of the other supposed miracles described in the Bible) are skeptical of Muhammed's supposed dicing of the moon. If so, why are the miracles described in the Bible more reliable than the miracles described in the Qur'an? Please help me out on this.
Posted by The Atheist Missionary at 9:28 PM
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8 comments:

  1. "Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time; it is, therefore, at least millions to one, that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie... Instead, therefore, of admitting the recitals of miracles as evidence of any system of religion being true, they ought to be considered as symptoms of its being fabulous." --Thomas Paine (The Age of Reason)
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  2. I didn't know about this splitting of the moon miracle.

    For someone else who never heard of it:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_of_the_moon
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  3. See this http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021029.html :)
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  4. In many North American Indian cultures, such as the Algonquin, a wild animal that repeatedly appears may be considered a personal totem guide; a kind of spiritual being that is neither above nor below but rather equal to man. There is a synchronistic meaning given to the animal.

    I don't know about you, but if I'm in Vegas and there is a game where you bet money on what is more likely to be true, the belief in personal totem guides or Noah's boat, I'm putting my money on the beasts.
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  5. In Quebec, there is a cult called the Raëlians (the UFO religion) who believe that Jesus was an alien and that the aliens replaced him with a clone after he died on the cross. Now, that is way more plausible than cutting the moon into two halves. Isn't it?
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  6. Same reason my grandma's chocolate chip cookies are WAY better than your grandma's chocolate chip cookies.
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  7. Brother Dean:
    What is life but a miracle from God? God is the Infinite revealed in the finite. There is no way a finite being can comprehend the Infinite so it is necessary that God reveal Himself in every living being and finally as He became a man through the virgin birth and then lived among us to show what He is in a way we can understand!
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  8. Brother, please just think about what you profess to believe: Now I am going to impregnate a woman with myself as her child, so that I can be born. Once alive, I will kill myself as a sacrifice to myself - to save you from the sin my daddy originally condemned you to. You're correct - that is incomprehensible.

    BTW, you haven't attempted to answer the question posed in this post: Why are the miracles described in the Bible more reliable than the miracles described in the Qur'an, or any other supposed holy book?
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