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[–]immersang 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Bible being "overall" the Word of God and it being "literally" God's rules is hardly the same thing. Yes, there are fundamentalists who believe you have to take everything in the absolute literal sense. But, I'd say most Christians today see it as not being literal, but open to interpretation. And many actually realize that translating it between different languages over thousands of years also had had an impact. Partly accidentally and partly to push an agenda (see: Mary Magdalene was most certainly not a prostitute).

Thing is, there's room for this in Christianity. You might have Evangelicals who loudly proclaim that they are the only ones who do Christianity right, but that doesn't mean that's actually rooted in Christianity itself.

I'm not sure there's room in Islam for anything else but "This is the LITERAL Word of Allah". As far as I know there isn't. But I'm not an expert, so someone else would have to answer that.