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Originally Posted by nexialys

religious books like the bible or the quran are written by fans, they are biased... i never consider biased content to be the truth... fans are blind, they hear no reason either...

give me a book written by your enemy, i will read it and have a good fun comparing...

btw, any religion have the same goal: believe in yourself at first... the rest is just sharing.

A book written by an enemy isn't biased? I fail to see that logic. So you'd read the republican version of the democratic party, or vice versa? :-) If it happened, then it's true, it is an epistemological issue after that.

To answer the question posed up front. The Christian Bible is a collection of 66 books written by at least 40 authors over a 1600 year period with two distinct parts, the OT and the NT. Christianity and Judaism had no knowledge of Islam, for they were full worldview systems centuries before Islam.

The Qur'an (Koran) is the written record of the memorized recitations of the followers of Mohamed, exclusively after his statements made during his life. It was recorded in the 630's and standardized over the next twenty years. Because the Qur'an was written after Christianity came into existance, it of course takes into account the pre-existant systems.

I've got both and they are dramatically different systems.