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There is a remarkable unity and symmetry of the Bible that cannot be duplicated or imitated by any other so-called "holy scriptures"

(The Koran, Zendavesta, Shastas, Puranas, Vedas, Sutras, etc.). In the first book of the Bible there is the first creation; in the last book of the Bible there is the last creation. Bullinger laid it out like this: 1) The first creation (Gen 1:1). 2 Satan's first appearance (Gen 1:2). 3) Restoration and blessing (Gen. 1:3- Gen 2). 4) Satan enters (Gen 3). 5) God deals with mankind in general (Gen 4-11). 6) God deals with the Jews in particular (Gen 12 - Mal.). 7) The first Advent (Matt-John). 8) Transition period of the books of Acts. 9) The Church Age (Rom-Phile.). 10) The Second Advent (Rev 19). 11) The restoration of the Jews. 12) The Millenial calling out of the gentiles. 13) The binding of Satan (Rev 20:1-3). 14) The Millenial restoration of the earth (Rev 20:4-6). 15) Satan's final appearance (Rev 20:7-9). 16) The new creation (Rev 21-22).

In that layout, points 8 and 9 are the center events of the Bible plan. You will notice that there are seven points that precede point 8 and seven points that follow point 9. Points 1-8 are the counterpart matches for points 9-16; points 10-16 are like reading points 1-7 backwards The Second Advent (point 10) matches the First Advent (Point 7), the restoration of the Jews (point 11) matches God's dealings with the Jews in the Old Testament (point 6), and so on. The entire book is balanced from start to finish.

How can you explain this, given the fact that the Book was written by forty different authors over a period of 1,600 years on three different continents? Mohammad couldn't even do that as one author in his own lifetime. The only explanation for such a phenomenon is Someone sitting up in Eternity, past Revelation 22, who sees all history laid out from Genesis 1:1-Revelation 22:21 and reveals these things to His creation. in the order He wants. Allah, Buddha, Jupiter, Ra, Baal, Thor, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, et al., can't do that. Only "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ " (Eph 1:3, 4:6) can do that!
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
There was no need for the "so-called" adjective.

That looks like no more than an unprovoked and pointless attack on others' faiths and scriptures that are as true to their followers as yours is to you.

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Whether those others are unified or symmetrical is a literary judgement, I leave to those who have taken the trouble to study and understand religion generally to a sufficiently high level, including reading all those other texts and various works about them. Really, a field for the professional historian and theologian.

I am not one of those, but I do try to see other faiths and none as equally-valid. The problems only come when proselytisers insist without any shred of evidence or need beyond ego, that their own version of their own faiths is the only "correct" one and condemn all others.

However, on the matter simply of style, the Kings James Authorised Edition of the Bible is popular with many Christians for its learned but very lyrical 17C English; and many non-Arabic Moslems learn Arabic so they can read the Q'ran in its original language, which is said to be very poetic. Both faiths claim their books were inspired by God; though one is a carefully-selected and edited anthology of many books by many writers, while the other was the work of a single author.