by mike_70 on November 17th, 2011

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by Stormarm on May 6th, 2012
First of all, the Torah is the first 5 books of the Bible, though I gather you meant "from the Christian New Testament [27 books] and the Hebrew Old Testament [39 books)".

Secondly, you should read both the Bible and the Quran and see for yourself. If you do, you won't come away with the impression that the Quran is just a cobbling together of passages from the Bible (which is much, much longer than the Quran).

That being said ...

The Quran makes some references and allusions to the Bible - primarily the Torah and the Gospels - but repeats very little that is in the Bible, and even then it's almost never direct quotation. The Quran does however borrow extensively from the apocryphal infancy "gospels" of James and Thomas.

It is, however, essentially an original work composed in Arabic in the lyric poetry of late 6th century Arabia.
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by Spookburger on November 17th, 2011
I imagine it was cobbled together, but I'm not sure about that.
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- Nothing is "cobbled" about the Qur'an. It is an original text right down to every letter. Not one word has been changed since it's inception.
  
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  by Theby on November 18th, 2011
- Yeah but the people who wrote were freaking sociopaths.
  
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  by Spookburger on November 18th, 2011
- Muhammad's companions sociopaths? I think not.
  
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  by Theby on November 19th, 2011
- Some of them are at least, that's a fact.
  
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  by Spookburger on November 19th, 2011
- References?
  
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  by Theby on November 20th, 2011
- September 11 2001
  
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  by Spookburger on November 20th, 2011
- A tragedy...yes. But you say most Muslims are psychopathic because of the few that committed this atrocity? Hardly. Did you ever stop to think WHY 9/11 happened? Look at Afghanistan and Iran for instance. Do you not think that Americans are the terrorists for killing innocent people in these lands? Thousands killed. Then Iraq. Millions killed and displaced. Then Palestine.... America providing billions to Israel for state of the art weaponry and killing and displacing million of Palestinians. Put yourself in the Palestinians place....how would you feel? Frustrated and powerless, perhaps? The real terrorists are the Americans, Israelis (and Russians for invading Afghanistan as well.) 9/11 was terrible and of course I don't condone it BUT I can see why it happened.
  
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by borasalama on December 1st, 2011
To say that the HQ was the work of Mohammed would be to give him greater credit than the Muslims do.

To say that the HQ was put together by Mohammed from the Bible would be to give him even greater credit, the credit of learning the Bible well, working on what to leave out, what to reproduce and what to modify. The credit of being able to do all that secretly. That of course was impossible. He was a man who was so much in the spotlight of both his followers and his opponents. He was strongly disliked by his opponents and had many critics watching his every move, ready to trip him on the slightest inconsistency in his claim.

The HQ was said to be revealed to Mohammed a few verses at a time over the last 23 years of his life, from the age of 40 onwards. The revelations would come to him in any situation where there was a problem to be resolved or an issue to be addressed. Any time he received a few verses of revelation he would dictate them to his scribes, and he and many others would commit them to memory.

The revelations claim to be from the God of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus, the one whom Jesus called "Thee, the only true God". That is why there is so much similarity in the core content of the OT, the NT and the HQ.
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by Night Time on November 17th, 2011
All religions are cobbled together from earlier religions. Ideas from the ancient Greek religion was cobbled together from the ancient Vedic texts of India and so on ad naseum.
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by ErgoStep - Millionaire Websites on November 17th, 2011
My impression is it was all written by Muhammad.
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- Mohammad pbuh was illiterate. His companions wrote down the words.
  
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  by Theby on November 18th, 2011
- Quite so. I stand corrected.
  
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  by ErgoStep - Millionaire Websites on November 18th, 2011
- No problemo :D
  
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  by Theby on November 19th, 2011
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by spookyaction on May 6th, 2012
I hate Quran the great lie!
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by spookyaction on May 6th, 2012
I hate Quran the great lie!
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by JakobA I^_^I the alooney on May 6th, 2012
Both.

Islam is the 3rd "Abrahamic Religion". The 2 first (cronologically) being Jewry and Christianity.

All 3 religions believe in 'The god of Abraham'. Each in their own slightly different way.

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by jaindough on November 17th, 2011
It's different than either the bible or Torah, being the word of Mohammad. It's more like a religious instruction manual than story book. Some beliefs cross over.
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- Mohammad pbuh received the words from God via Gabriel. The Qur'an is the word of God.
  
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  by Theby on November 18th, 2011
- they are all just books, written by men by the words that came out of their own thoughts. Anyone can write one.
  
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  by jaindough on November 18th, 2011
- Muhammad's pbuh companions may have written the book but the words are from God via Gabriel. A challenge has existed since the Qur'ans inception for anyone to write a surah (verse) like the ones in the Qur'an. It has never been met.
  
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  by Theby on November 19th, 2011
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by Friartuck on November 17th, 2011
Eh? Is it "Yes" it was cobbled together or "Yes" it is original?
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  It would be nice if A and B were opposites A == ~B . Then the answer would be an unqualified Yes ( IF (A or ~A) ...).
  
  But they are not. I am not exactly sure what they are.
  
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