kovan
How is this possible to occur in the koran?
about that heaven and universe..
some translations refer to it as "heavens"
and some refer to it as universe..
but if your interested in exactly what it says in the quran
read the arabic..
You said that all texts (copies/publications) are the same as some "original" text. Now you say that some refer to it as "heavens" and some as "universe".
Then you say to read the arabic.

Kindly explain the difference between what you said and what I said about reading the Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament versus other language translations such as English.

Gen-X
In my particular case, I can only remember having "degrees" of faith, not absolute belief nor absolute unbelief. So I would say that this strawberry tastes better than this strawberry. I also basically said that the bible says 'if you start out liking chocolate, then as you continue to be around strawberries, that is the way to acquire the taste and preference for strawberries (and once acquired, you cannot go back to chocolate.)'
My scientific pursuits are the closest I come to unbelieving. I suppose it is my underlying bias which tends to apply "initial conditions" as a reason for God versus a bias against God's existence tending to apply "initial conditions" as a reason for the nonexistence of God. Basically the same argument as to why two people given the same evidence still conclude differently.

Food for thought: Counterfeit investigators do not study all the counterfeit variants; they study the true article so that they can know a counterfeit when they see one.
I suppose this can only lead me to "True Christianity" because we cannot start with the given "this is true" to find "which one is the truth".

That I would prefer to seek "True Christianity" doesn't address the original topic, though "hearing the word" does if you are an unbeliever..

[Edited by VirtuallyVB on 10-05-2000 at 11:29 AM]