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==The Bible versus the Qur'an==

==The Bible versus the Qur'an==

At less that 80,00 words (figures vary: 77,701 by one source,<ref>http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Uk/uk.religion.islam/2005-09/msg01868.html</ref>) the Qur'an is much smaller than the Bible,  (Old Testament: 602,585; New Testament: 180,552<ref> http://muthbible.org/resources/bible/biblestatistics.php</ref> with the [[KJV]] being counted at 788,258 words total. <ref>http://www.biblebelievers.com/believers-org/kjv-stats.htm</ref>) and is far more restrictive in in its scope of communication. Lacking the manner of extensive historical accounts of the Bible, and the context it provides for its laws, as well as genealogical records which helps provide historical chronology, the Qur'an is difficult to interpret by itself, and in its allusions to Biblical characters and events it evidences that it depends upon the Bible. Muhammed himself is seen to uphold the Scriptures that existed then as Divinely inspired, both the Torah, (Sura 2:87) and the Psalms, (4:163) and the gospels, (Suras 3:3; 5:46)  such as in stating,  

At less that 80,00 words (figures vary: 77,701 by one source,<ref>http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Uk/uk.religion.islam/2005-09/msg01868.html</ref>) the Qur'an is much smaller than the Bible,  (Old Testament: 602,585; New Testament: 180,552<ref> http://muthbible.org/resources/bible/biblestatistics.php</ref> with the [[KJV]] being counted at 788,258 words total, <ref>http://www.biblebelievers.com/believers-org/kjv-stats.htm</ref>) and is far more restrictive in in its scope of communication. Lacking the manner of extensive historical accounts of the Bible, and the context it provides for its laws, as well as genealogical records which helps provide historical chronology, the Qur'an is difficult to interpret by itself, and in its allusions to Biblical characters and events it evidences that it depends upon the Bible. Muhammed himself is seen to uphold the Scriptures that existed then as Divinely inspired, both the Torah, (Sura 2:87) and the Psalms, (4:163) and the gospels, (Suras 3:3; 5:46)  such as in stating,  

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