Lots of problems. The message came from God to the Angel Gabriel then to Muhammad who dictated it to people who wrote it down? So if I told you that an Angel spoke to me and for you to write down what I tell you, you'd believe me? Of course not. But you believe Muhammad?
No, I believe Baha'u'llah and His successors and that is why I believe Muhammad was a Manifestation of God (Messenger).
And what about Joseph Smith? He said he spoke to the Angel Moroni. Then he dictated what he read off of some special golden plates and dictated it to someone. Should we believe him? If not, why don't we?
I do not care what you or anyone else believes. Maybe Joseph Smith did speak to the angel Moroni, but that does not mean he was a Manifestation of God, a Messenger of God or a Prophet. As a Baha'i I do not believe that was the case because of what Shoghi Effendi wrote:
“Joseph Smith we do not consider a Prophet, minor or otherwise. Certainly no reference he made could have foretold the Coming of this Revelation in his capacity as a Prophet.” (Letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual, 21 Feb. 1942)
So Moses didn't write the first five books of the Bible? Isaiah or Daniel or Jerimiah didn't write the books ascribed to them? Yet, with those prophets, and the others, we believe their prophesies?
No, I do not believe Moses or the Prophets wrote the prophecies but they still might be true even if not exact.
All scholars know the truth. The Tahakh and the Bible were written by men, and we do not know who they were.
"Who wrote the Torah? In light of more than two hundred years of scholarship and of the ongoing disputes on that question,[1] the most precise answer to this question still is: We don’t know. The tradition claims it was Moses, but the Torah itself says otherwise. Only small portions within the Torah are traced back to him, but not nearly the whole Torah:
Exodus 17:14 (Battle against Amalek); 24:4 (Covenant Code); 34:28 (Ten Commandments);
Numbers 33:2 (Wandering Stations);
Deuteronomy 31:9 (Deuteronomic Law); and 31:22 (Song of Moses). "
Who Wrote the Torah?
"Over centuries, billions of people have read the
Bible. Scholars have spent their lives studying it, while rabbis, ministers and priests have focused on interpreting, teaching and preaching from its pages.
As the sacred text for two of the world’s leading religions,
Judaism and
Christianity, as well as other faiths, the Bible has also had an unmatched influence on literature—particularly in the Western world. It has been
translated into nearly 700 languages, and while exact sales figures are hard to come by, it’s widely considered to be the
world’s best-selling book.
But despite the Bible’s undeniable influence, mysteries continue to linger over its origins.
Even after nearly 2,000 years of its existence, and centuries of investigation by biblical scholars, we still don’t know with certainty who wrote its various texts, when they were written or under what circumstances.
Who Wrote the Bible?
