[TML] China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 28 Aug 2007 at 15:14, GDWGAMES at aol.com wrote:

>> Mohammed had seen what sort of arguments the Christians got into
>> about stuff and *tried* to forestall a lot of that in Islam.
>> That's why only the original Arabic text is valid and translations
>> aren't "really" the Koran.  

>> Of course, this has some built-in booby-traps too. 

> Ummm. I have relatives who claim that the KJV is the only "real" version of 
> the Bible, superceding all previous versions, even the original language 
> versions.

The difference being that that is their *opinion* unsupported by 
facts. 

Whereas it is *Mohammed* who (speaking for Allah) said that the 
Arabic version of the Koran was the definitive and only proper 
version.

The KJV Bible was admitted at the time to have deliberately shaded 
translations.




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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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