Abrahamic vs Eastern

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Catholic Apologetics : Unlike many Eastern faiths, why do Abrahamic religions worship scriptures like the Bible, Quran, Tanakh? What makes billions of people really believe that their quirky books are the true word from God? Are they naive and their beliefs a giant hoax?
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Hans-Georg Lundahl

none/ apprx Masters in Latin (language) & Greek (language), Lund University

24.V.2023

“Unlike many Eastern faiths,”

Not the two biggest ones, which in their traditional versions tend to worship Tripitaka or Ramayana and Mahabharata. A somewhat smaller one tends to worship the Analects. An even smaller one, the Avesta.

“why do Abrahamic religions worship scriptures like the Bible, Quran, Tanakh?”

Any given such collection of texts has a community making about it certain claims:

• about the human authorship
• about how this ties in with (presumed or real) divine authorship.

The different communities and the different claims may be very similar to an Easterner, they are even so not equivalent or interchangeable.

“What makes billions of people really believe that their quirky books are the true word from God?”

I’m not sure whether someone worshipping Mahabharata or Avesta is in a position to speak about quirky.

Again, different communities make different claims, involving different bases for these claims.

“Are they naive and their beliefs a giant hoax?”

Supposing there is no such word of God - yes. But so are Eastern books that parallel claims are made for, not in relation to a unique God, but even so in relation to a unique source of truth.

Supposing on the other hand there is such a word of God - yes, most such claims, as well as the Eastern parallel claims, except for one.

Does this discredit the one along with the parallels? Not if the claims are assymetrically better than those of the rest.