Here where we disagree. The bible is not the word of God. It's a collection of several books.
The
Bible (from
Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,
tà biblía, "the books") is a canonical collection of texts
sacred in
Judaism and
Christianity. There is no single "Bible" and many Bibles with varying contents exist.
[1] The term Bible is shared between Judaism and Christianity, although the contents of each of their collections of canonical texts is not the same. Different religious groups include different books within their
Biblical canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate
additional material into canonical books.
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Correct. However, it is believed that the authors are inspired by God, not unlike Muhammad is believed to be.
Not the same, but whatever.
How is it not the same?
I don't memorize the Quran but i don't recall a verse which says it's error-free because it doesn't make sense for someone to write a book and then say it's error free. Don't you think? you are a teacher and i think you can relate. In the same sense, when Allah revealed the Quran the argument was whether it was from Allah or not. Either way, feel free to share with us the so called errors.
I already did, on several threads but one we can come back to is 46:15 saying gestation + weaning is 30 months, while 2:233 states that the period of breastfeeding is two years.
The tafsirs state this means that 6 months is the minimum date of viability- a child who is born 6 months after marriage is viable and a child born before that time is not, therefore the mother is an adulteress.
You stated that 6 months is a relative minimum, but I ask you how does this work if we are determining whether or not a person is to be accused of adultery. Wouldn't it be careless to declare a general minimum when it comes to a person potentially being accused of a capital crime?
Also, gestation + weaning = 30 months and breastfeeding = 2 years, it follows that the only children who are to be breastfed for two years are kids who were born after 6 months. Most kids, who are born after 9 months, would only need 21 months of breastfeeding.
Yet according to the World Health Organization, a child needs at least 2 years or more of breastfeeding in order to be healthy. This is true especially in developing countries.
Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended up to 6 months of age, with continued breastfeeding along with appropriate complementary foods up to two years of age or beyond.
WHO | Breastfeeding
Those who are breastfed less than 23 months often pay with their lives.
Key facts
- Every infant and child has the right to good nutrition according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Undernutrition is associated with 45% of child deaths.
- Globally in 2012, 162 million children under 5 were estimated to be stunted and 51 million have low weight-for-height, mostly as a consequence of poor feeding and repeated infections; 44 million were overweight or obese.
- About 38% of infants 0 to 6 months old are exclusively breastfed.
- Few children receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods; in many countries only a third of breastfed infants 6–23 months of age meet the criteria of dietary diversity and feeding frequency that are appropriate for their age.
- About 800 000 children's lives could be saved every year among children under 5, if all children 0–23 months were optimally breastfed.
WHO | Infant and young child feeding
In Indonesia, children who were breastfed 12-36 months were healthier than those who did not. In Guinea-Bissau, kids who were no longer breastfed 12-35 months of age were 3 times more likely to die than those who continued to breastfeed.
Health effects
Priscilla Colletto stated in Beyond Toddlerhood: The Breastfeeding Relationship Continues, "The adverse health effects of weaning a child before or during toddlerhood are well documented for Third World countries such as Guinea-Bissau, where children who were no longer breastfed at ages 12–35 months had a 3.5 times higher mortality rate than did their peers who continued to breastfeed."[171] Dr. Laurence Grummer-Strawn, widely known in the breastfeeding research and advocacy communities,[172] observed that breastfeeding is protective against diarrheal diseases and other infections and that breastfed children aged 12 to 36 months in Indonesia have much greater mid-arm circumference than children who have been weaned at an early age. He also noted that the incidence of malnourishment in breastfed Indonesian children is 3–5% less common than generally encountered in early-weened children. In one study, artificially fed infants had 2 to 3 times as many episodes of significant illnesses (defined as "otitis media, lower respiratory disease, significant vomiting or diarrhea, and any illness requiring hospital admission").[151] In traditional human societies, the lack of nutrients missing in breast milk such as iron, zinc, and vitamin b12 was supplemented through premastication and feeding of meat to the child.[173][174]
Breastfeeding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sorry, that one is not good enough and you know it.
Why not? You yourself said you wouldn't make a vow in the name of God and Muhammad because that would mean equating Muhammad with God.
This is exactly what Jesus did in the verse, He equated Himself and the Holy Spirit and the Father.
Well, i got scolded by my teacher when i was asking him about certain things, lol. When i explained for him some of the opinions i have he told me that i shouldn't speculate and that i should speak only of what i know for certain especially that i'm not a scholar.
That's why i'll answer of what i know, and Allah knows best.
Cool, thanks for sharing that. In Canada, we have a very lax discipline policy and my lovely little teenagers just love to share their opinions... whether it is called for or not.
"Why can't I just listen to music??? I don't wanna work with Angie, math is
bor-ring"
"We gotta read??? Come on Mr, X. That's
bunk..."
"It isn't my fault he got me mad and I threw an eraser at him! Now I gotta spend 5 minutes after school???? This is so stupid!"
LOL I actually encourage kids to express themselves, and especially when they are learning English and History, a lot of our focus is getting them to read and understand and then analyze what they have read and form their own opinions. A society that can think for itself is harder to manipulate.
But yeah, sometimes it's also important to shut up and listen, especially when you don't know what you are talking about... not that I would ever tell my little darlings that
