saying that Christ quoting the Torah and not the Quran as a theological difference is sillyâŚof course the Quran had not been revealed at the time of ChristâŚ
I asked about theological contradictions (not historical ) between the Quran and the Torah (five books of Moses)
still looking for an answer
The biblical story of Moses meeting his wife:
When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their fatherâs flock. Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.
When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, âWhy have you returned so early today?â
They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds.
He even drew water for us and watered the flock." âAnd where is he?â he asked his daughters. âWhy did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.â
Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, âI have become an alien in a foreign land.â
Exodus 2:15-22
The quranic version of Moses meeting his wife:
And when he arrived at the watering (place) in Madyan, he found there a group of men watering (their flocks), and besides them he found two women who were keeping back (their flocks).
He said: âWhat is the matter with you?â They said: âWe cannot water (our flocks) until the shepherds take back (their flocks): And our father is a very old man.â
So he watered (their flocks) for them; then he turned back to the shade, and said: âO my Lord! truly am I in (desperate) need of any good that Thou dost send me!â Afterwards one of the (damsels) came (back) to him, walking bashfully.
She said: âMy father invites thee that he may reward thee for having watered (our flocks) for us.â So when he came to him and narrated the story, he said: âFear thou not: (well) hast thou escaped from unjust people.â
Said one of the (damsels): âO my (dear) father! engage him on wages: truly the best of men for thee to employ is the (man) who is strong and trustyââŚ
He said: "I intend to wed one of these my daughters to thee, on condition that thou serve me for eight years; but if thou complete ten years, it will be (grace) from thee.
But I intend not to place thee under a difficulty: thou wilt find me, indeed, if Allah wills, one of the righteous."
He said: âBe that (the agreement) between me and thee: whichever of the two terms I fulfil, let there be no ill-will to me. Be Allah a witness to what we say.â Sura 28:23-28
The stories clearly refer to the same incident, but plenty of differences exist between them. Two aspects are particularly striking:
In Exodus, Moses meets seven women at the well, all seven being daughters of one man.
In the Qurâan it is said explicitly that they were two women, also daughters of the same man.
In both cases, their father offers Moses one of the daughters for marriage.
However, in the Qurâan, the father asks a payment for marrying his daughter.
The condition is that Moses has to work for him for eight or ten years.
Note that there are two terms of service mentioned, although they are alternative numbers. In the Qurâan we have two women and two terms, contrary to the biblical account.
Theologically teaching, the koran story does not concur with the Biblical one. Since the 5 books of Moses were written first and they were already about 2000+ years old, the koran is false.
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