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|The Quran is the eternal word of Allah, existing before the world exists (for example, the Quran being the Mother of the Book, written on the stone tablets)||The Quran has been changed by the mere people, and therefore isn't eternal.||Assume the Quran is the eternal word of Allah at some point of time. After the Quran successfully has been changed by the sahaba, the Quran they have after the event is no longer the eternal word of Allah. Therefore, either the verses alleged to mean that the Quran is eternal word of Allah mean something different, or the Quran is false. | |The Quran is the eternal word of Allah, existing before the world exists (for example, the Quran being the Mother of the Book, written on the stone tablets)||The Quran has been changed by the mere people, and therefore isn't eternal.||Assume the Quran is the eternal word of Allah at some point of time. After the Quran successfully has been changed by the sahaba <i>within time continuum</i>, the Quran they have after the event is no longer the eternal word of Allah <i>outside the time continuum</i>. Therefore, either the verses alleged to mean that the Quran is eternal word of Allah mean something different, or the Quran is false. | ||
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|The Quran is perfectly preserved, right down to the letter.||The Quran has been changed||After the Quran successfully has been changed by the sahaba at least once, the Quran is changed | |The Quran is perfectly preserved, right down to the letter.||The Quran has been changed||After the Quran successfully has been changed by the sahaba at least once, the Quran is changed. If the Quran says that no word(s) of the <i>Quran</i> can be changed, then the Quran must be false. | ||
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| The only author of the Quran is Allah || The Quran is at least partially authored or edited by the sahaba. || 1. If sahaba successfully changed the Quran the Quran is at least partially authored or edited by the sahaba | |||
2. <i>Possible escalation:</i> If "We" in the Quran only refers to both the authorship of the Quran and the deity to be worshipped, Islam reduces to polytheism. | |||
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| Allah's word is eternal and cannot be changed || Allah's word in the Quran (Quran 3:4) was successfully changed and therefore isn't eternal || Allah's word <i>outside the time continuum</i> has been changed by the sahaba <i>within the time continuum</i>, and therefore isn't eternal. | |||
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