How could a book produced a couple of thousand years after an event, and without the help of modern archaeology, get something right about a detail of an ancient time? The only conclusion is that the author (or translator) of the book had Divine help--the book MUST be from God.

For years a certain passage in the book was ignored but only under the light of modern scholarship has a connection going back thousands of years been established. A name carved on a stone PROVES that the Book MUST be exactly what it claims to be--divine.

Of course the book I'm talking about is the Quran. In the Quran the battle of wits between Pharaoh and Moses is discussed. In a few of the passages the Quran has the Pharaoh telling his minister, Haman, to do something.

Only in modern times after the deciphering of ancient Egyptian hierglyphs has it been found that there actually WAS an official in ancient Egypt named Haman. In Vienna there is a stone with a funeral inscription for a governor named "Haman."

Of course, since ancient Egyptian didn't use vowels the name is written "Hmn," but this is a small thing to quibble about.

So if Mormons claim that three consonants on a stone in Yemen PROVE the Book of Mormon then they must accept that three consonants on an ancient Egyptian funeral inscription currently residing in a museum in Vienna PROVES the Quran also.



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Amazing "proof!"

I used to live in Vienna. But I never saw that "Hmm" stone. Where exactly is it?

The stone is in the “Kunsthistorisches Museum” in Vienna.

"Things that make you say 'Hmn'."

yes there were no vowels back then. But that's no reason to make them up. His name is just Stan. Like his brother, Jess.

"Jss"

R_TFLMF__!

Exact same logic. You are right by Mormon reasoning,the Quran is true.

Are we sure we haven't actually discovered the burial place of He-man? After all, that would use the same consonants, and "prove" correct a set of beliefs that are just as logical.

Not sure if they are from god...but some of them claim you will think you've met him afterwards.

...but after what???

The Muslim apologists are up to the same tricks as the Mormon apologists I think. The Haman stone story originated from Harun Yahya - possibly a group of people publishing under one name - think DCP (and brethren) in a turban. Free Inquiry magazine has been featuring this guy (these guys?) lately.

The author of the Quran made a few of the same errors Joseph did when incorporating extra-biblical myths, and had the disadvantage of probably only having oral renditions of some Jewish myths. He conflated parts of the Exodus and the Exile, and modern Islamic apologists are weaving cobwebs, over a millennia later, to try to keep internet savvy Muslims faithful.

Check out the issue with the Haman Stone here, and be gob-smacked at the similarities:
http://answering-islam.org/authors/katz/haman.html

My mistake - Harun Yahya was plagiarizing an earlier apologist. Who would have thought!

A stopped clock is right twice a day.

this is the old clairvoyant/medium tactic that, if you throw enough information out, then some of it will be right.
people tend to remember the few 'hit's and forget the million 'misses'.

one hit to a million misses - as a wise woman once said: "That don't impress me much"