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Aleshia Johnson
ENG 201
November 12, 2010
Mr. Tucker
The Bible versus the Qur’an
In world literature we studied pieces of the text from both the Bible and Qur’an. They are both religious text for different religions. The Bible is used by the Christians and the Islam’s use the Qur’an. They have both been around for a long time. Nobody actually knows when they were originally written because they date back so far. Even though these are two very different books they relate to each other in many ways. The bible has two sections, a New Testament an a Old testament. The Qur’an has one hundred fourteen chapters according to the Christianity-islam.com. The Bible has twenty seven chapters in the New Testament and the Old Testament has thirty nine. The Islamic are monotheism just like the Christians. They worship at a Mosque while the Christians worship at a Cathedral or Church. The religious leader for the Islamic is a Caliph and the Christians have a Pope, Minister, Bishop, or Preacher.
One of the differences between the two texts is that the Qur’an invites you to believe in the word of God, while the Bible tells you what you should and should not do. The Bible has Ten Commandments that each tell you what you should live by, sort of like a moral code. The Qur’an also has something similar to the Ten Commandments, it is called the Five Pillars.
The most common story that you will hear related between the Bible and the Qur’an is the flood. According to Dr. Maurice Bucaille,
The Bible speaks of a universal flood and places it roughly 300 years before Abraham.
According to what we know of Abraham, this would imply a universal cataclysm around
the twenty-first or twenty-second century BC. This story would be untenable, in view of presently available history data. How can we accept the idea that in the twenty-first century or twenty-second century BC, all civilization was wiped off the face of the earth by a universal cataclysm, when we know...