DEAD SEA SCROLLS

[Andywelik]

If YOU want to know the TRUTH please go to the Dead Sea Scrolls WEB SITE:

http://www.centuryone.com/25dssfacts.html

[muhammad]

I'm not sure what this "truth" you found is. What is it that you think this site proves that we don't already know?

[Andywelik]

Originally posted by muhammad
I'm not sure what this "truth" you found is. What is it that you think this site proves that we don't already know?

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Respnse:

Here is one GREAT TRUTH:

18. The scrolls contain previously unknown stories about biblical figures such as Enoch, Abraham, and Noah.

The story of Abraham includes an explanation why God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only SON ISAAC.

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The Dead Sea Scrolls were most likely **written** by the Essenes during the period from about **200** YEARS BEFORE CHRIST to **68** AFTER CHRIST.

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Can you please tell US how the DEAD SEA SCROLLS happen to mention that it was **ISAAC who was sacrificed** by Abraham?

[muhammad]

The people who wrote the scrolls were not infallible. Abraham (AS) was not from the period of time that the scrolls where made but from much before. Since some of the dead sea scrolls are simply an older version of the old testament, the same errors which were made in the old testament would have occured in this as well as we would expect.

Your "not" currently addressing the issue. Muslims have two beliefs regarding the bible and you're confusing them:
1) The OT and NT that we have today were not the divine books revealed to the prophets. The NT is just a subset of books collected by the council of Nicaea in 325AD. Many other books were discarded. Many poor uniteralists were massacred during this time because they didn't accept the trinity (after the creed was announced).
2) The present day bible has many different forms and versions, every christian sect claims that their version is correct.

Nothing that you've written above answers 1 since no new light is shed as to the source of the scripture via the dead sea scrolls. Regarding 2, it may be possible to prove that some versions of the bible have been modified from the original, but this is assuming that the translation of the dead sea scrolls can be verified as reliable (all words are translated correctly). So even with this there is some subjectivity.

[Andywelik]

>>The story of Abraham (in the DSS) includes an explanation why God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only SON ISAAC.<<

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Where does the Koran mention ISHMAEL as the son who was sacrified by Abraham? Pl. show the Sura, so I can read it.

[Andywelik]

Please answer the following questions.

1. Was there at one time in the history of the world a book called the TAURAT?

2. Who gave the TAURAT to mankind, and when?

3. Who wrote the words of the Taurat?

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Please answer HONEST to Allah !

If you are not willing to answer please say so.

[Andywelik]

You wrote:
>>2) The present day bible has many different forms and versions,<<

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Response:

When you talk about PRESENT DAY BIBLES being corrupted versions, you are saying that there were at one time in the PAST BIBLES THAT WERE 100% pure and true.

Please tell us where those Bibles (SCROLLS) went.
What happened to them?
What PROOF DO YOU HAVE that there were SUCH 100% pure, true Bibles in the past?

Were those Bibles available to Prophet Mohammad, so he could say in the Koran that he was able to COMPARE the corrupted Bibles with the UN-corrupted Bibles and then conclude that corruptions had been made in the later Bibles?