so GP jaan, lets see here, this God guy created men, then decided we need people to show us how its done and be GOOD ! then he sends JC and Co. but suddenly 1400 years ago decided ok that's enough, how come no one is coming now? isnt world a MUCH dirtier place now than then? how come no one can "OPEN THE SEA" now? what happened? is he sleeping? and whats the POINT of this? he created us then is seating and watching us and waiting for us to make a mistake so he can burn us in hell? this guy is EXTREMELY bored if you ask me
Good points.
I don't get why we weren't just left to use our heart reason and logic to get us to be good or progress in creation. Since you could always argue we have been given reason heart and logic thus what's the point of a "divine scripture"?
Vali keep in mind (from a philosophical pov) and IMO that this is subjective and too ambigious and their may be things that we don't know. It might be that the scriptures were needed at that time and are not needed now i don't know or it might be that they were meant to have signs in them to direct towards God again i don't know since i already think there are signs in the Universe to acknowledge purpose or design.
A question like this is i think hard because there are so many possible answers.
But if you look at something like the embryology thing posted, that's IMO less subjective because you can kinda just narrow it down to like three or four possibilities:
1) it's from aliens
2) its knowledge copied from others
3) it's divine
4) It's just a good guess (but i think logic would deny this)
Do you get what i mean?
I disagree with you when you say the world is a dirtier place now compared to the past. There are lots of things which we have bettered and developed by following and better understanding the laws in the universe.
About the last part of your post:
Have you ever thought of that which sustains you to be God? I mean basically everything that sorrounds you and beyond in other words that which encompasses all things. I say this because i think you've already formed an image of God based on humans. IMO you should look at what it is you actually submit(can't think of a better word) to in your life.
If you sleep or your skin recovers after a cut, that's because the laws of your sustainer/ the sustainer/ nature/ life....whatever you wanna call it has placed. It could be that this sustainer is intellegent or not (that's like a whole philosophical debate) but what i'm saying is assuming that this sustainer is intellegent, it would seem logical that for going against a law, there will punishments. Ie: if you don't sleep for two days you will punished by the laws of your sustainer that's my version of hell. I strongly reject fire, shackles and any otherthing on these lines in the Quran to be true of that which borught us into being. I reckon these are not literal. There is actually a verse in the scripture which does point to this.
Historically the book was after all written by a man with an arabic tongue in which it could even have a different accent or dialect in comparison to the arabic used today.
About the opening of the sea, at the moment, I actually don't believe that either. I think it's against the laws of the sustainer that something like this happens.
Oh and if i'm responding to you, it's because it was the easiest to read and reply to in comparison to other posts.