Abstract:
One of the most important foundations of knowing and interpreting the Qur’ān, the Torah, and the Gospel is the belief in the infallibility and impeccability of the words and propositions of these divine scriptures. If the verses and statements of the noble Qur’ān and the Testaments during the revelation era and the ensuing times have been afflicted with distortion and contradiction, then they cannot be trusted. One of the dimensions of the originality and authoritativeness of the divine scriptures is their freedom from any kind of mistake, disharmony, and disagreement. When a person tries to understand the verses based on such a viewpoint, he will expect nothing but harmony from the verses and will try to figure out this harmony and convergence. In this article, various existing viewpoints in this regard are presented and examined, and it is concluded that the infallibility of the divine scriptures is the stance taken by the majority of Muslims and the Judaist tradition, while there are disagreements among Christians. The main reason is the viewpoints of Muslims, Jews, and Christians toward revelation.
Machine summary:
This disagreement among the followers of Abrahamic religions about the infallibility of their divine scriptures originates from their different views to the nature of revelation and its role in the life of the human, where the majority of Muslims and Jews and a minority of Christians have emphasized the divinity of the propositions of their divine scriptures (Encyclopedia of judaica, 1982, v.
Some Christians have generalized the divinity of the propositions to the whole text of their divine scripture, including the Old Testament and the New Testament, and believe that God has set a sacred word objectively in the minds of the receivers of the revelation (Lofmark, 1990: 7).
Although some events and conditions might have had a role in the generation and gradual revelation of the verses, all words and meanings of the qur’ānic propositions are metaphysical, and the mind and mentality of the Prophet (s) or other issues have not been effective in the formation of the identity of the Qur’ān (Shākir, 2009: 61-65).
e. freedom from disagreement and contradiction) which is also mentioned in the “Tadabbur” verse, he has a point that might be used to confirm our foregoing discussion: “If an utterance is based on truth and completely conforms to reality, its propositions do not reject each other, because unity and harmony only exist among the principles and elements of the right (i.