Ibn-Hazm Part 2

Originally posted by honeto

Why would God send or repeat His guidance so many times?

The revelations in the Bible are not simply repetitions, they are a progressive unfolding of God's plan of salvation for mankind starting with the seed of the woman in Gen 3:15.

In every subsequent revelation there is additional color added. For example, the seed would come through the line of Abraham in Gen 12:3, through David's line in Isaiah 11:1, would be born of a virgin in Isaiah 7:14, and would be born in Bethlehem in Micah 5:2 and would be a suffering servant would would solve the sin problem in Isaiah 53, and would be God Himself in Isaiah 9:6.

The Quran does not add further color in continuing this progressive revelation from God, it totally and utterly denies it. It comes centuries after the need for written revelation from God had ceased. All had been fulfilled in Jesus the Messiah.

Ibn-Hazm realized this. However, to save Islam, he came up with the absurd defense that the Bible was corrupted--a doctrine that yields a God that cannot be God--and makes no sense whatsoever.