Kasper

Does anyone have an explanation for why the narrator of the Quran refers to God in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person?

Toto

Doesn't the narrator of the "Bible" refer to god in the first, second and third persons? Sometimes the text is presented as god speaking, sometimes the narrator addresses god, sometimes god is a character in the drama.

Kasper

Well, the Bible and the Quran are fundamentally different (seen from the believers' POV). The Bible is eye witness stories, whereas the Quran is a direct message from God through Gabriel. Word for word. So these 2 books cannot be compared (again, seen from the believers' POV).
The different perspectives in the Bible makes sense to me, but it doesn't make sense to me regarding the Quran.

Doug Shaver

According to the usual story, Muhammad wrote the Quran in bits and pieces over a period of 23 years, apparently without expecting them ever to be gathered into a single volume. If that was the case, it would explain why its style lacks some consistency.

The actual origin of the Quran is, to put it charitably, uncertain. As is the case with Jesus, there are no primary sources for Muhammad's biography.

mountainman

From the non-believers' POV the "Avesta" (compiled by Ardashir for the new centralised political state monotheism of Sassanid Persia), the Bible and the Quran are fundamentally the same. They are products of military supremacy used by the military supremacists to provide an authorised "Holy Writ" which was canonised and held up above all other literature as containing the "most holy and true word of a monotheistic god" so that their military controlled political state might be unified in its "belief".

There is no difference between the The Bible and the Quran from the non-believers' POV since they are artifical recepticles of blind faith in authority figures, fabricated by military despots for the benefit of their political states. The people who believe either the Bible or the Quran are justifiably refered to as "the people who believe the book". Book-followers.

These military commanders who were ultimately responsible for the inauguration of these "religions" (for want of a better word) did not like being laughed at by the public press. In the case of at least the New Testament and the Quran the reception of the "Holy Writ" and its official support and authoritative promulgation were accompanied by the execution of satirists.