When it comes to scriptural contradiction, it's not that big of a deal in Christianity. The books are only said to be divinely inspired, not the verbatim words of God. Not so for the Qur'an. The Qur'an claims to be the eternally existing verbatim words of God. So, if it contains contradictions, inaccuracies, and lies, then it is a major problem. But according to the Bible, it is inspired instead of verbatim, except for a few scattered quotes. And when the Bible contains mentions of an eternally existing word, it is referencing Jesus or else a power of creation which can be examined in the light of the Gospels to be considered to be pre-birth Jesus. The Qur'an is claiming essentially to be the written form of the Word, but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny even by its own internal standards. But if Jesus is the Word, then the Bible containing contradictions, problematic edits or alterations isn't a dealbreaker, since it basically represents the human perception of events, cosmology, theology, etc... And it has many different authors who have different perspectives. And these are all undeniably human authors. For example, the authors of Matthew, Mark, and the epistle of James appear to be on the same page. But Luke, Acts, and the Pauline Epistles appear to be by a different school of thought. And then the gospel of John and the Revelation are clearly completely different in nature. The other Epistles, it is hard to tell where they come down. I have classified these schools of thought by how they treat the importance of prior Jewish tradition and the Torah after reading them thoroughly. Though I personally find that they all have good points. I see it like this, that both the Semetic Christianity and the Greek Christianity are needed. Because in the Last supper story, there's something you can only see if you're familiar with the original languages. Aramaic is somewhat mutually intelligible with Arabic. Hebrew as well is very similar. The Hebrew word for bread is the same as the Aramaic and Arabic word for meat. It's a homonym. And the Koine Greek word for wine also means blood. So the symbolism here in these homonyms is not only in the gesture and the ritual. But also in the linguistics of needing both the Semetic and Greek understandings. Both the Jerusalem Church headed by James, and the understandings of the Romans who were following Paul.

@technicallydifficult i suspect it really depends on denomination for both

@technicallydifficult like specifically

> it's not that big of a deal in Christianity. The books are only said to be divinely inspired, not the verbatim words of God. Not so for the Qur'an

would probably get you in a socially awkward situation with a lot of "bible-based christians"

@apophis @technicallydifficult yeah that's true, some Protestants treat the Bible in a similar way to how Muslims treat the Qur'an (though they would never admit it)

@alienskyler @apophis

Those people haven't read it thoroughly.

@alienskyler @apophis

Anyone who really reads the Bible and doesn't just half-ass it is going to notice that it contains errors and contradictions. Since God doesn't make errors or contradict himself, well, you get the rest.

@technicallydifficult @apophis @alienskyler people who think the bubble was literally received from God in its current form like the ten commandments are prone to extremism among other follies

@technicallydifficult @alienskyler @apophis can't believe I wrote bible wrong