God in the Bible vs. in the Koran

It is a sign for ever between me and the people of Israel that that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. (Exodus 31:17)

We created the heavens and the earth, and what between them is, in six days, and no weariness touched us.

(The Koran Interpreted 50:38)

And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people. (Exodus 32:14)

And the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel. (1 Samuel 15:35)

And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. (Genesis 6:6)

God is the best of devisers.

(The Koran Interpreted 8:30)

Thou shal never find any changing the wont of God, and thou shalt never find any altering the wont of God.

(The Koran Interpreted 35:43)

Then the LORD said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gamor’rah is great and their sin is very grave, I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry which has come to me; and if not, I will know. (Genesis 18:20-21)

With Him are the keys of the Unseen; none knows them but He. He knows what is in land and sea; not a leaf falls, but He knows it. Not a grain in the earth’s shadows, not a thing, fresh or withered, but it is in a Book Manifest.

(The Koran Interpreted 6:59)

Thus says the LORD of hosts, “...Go and smite Am’alek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.” (1 Samuel 15:2-3)

And when Our command came, We delivered Hood and those who believed with him by a mercy from Us, and delivered them from a harsh chastisement.

(The Koran Interpreted 11:58)

And when Our command came, We delivered Salih and those who believed with him by a mercy from Us, and from the degradation of that day.

(The Koran Interpreted 11:66)

And so on. God never commits genocide in the Koran. Instead, he sends prophets to the doomed civilizations, and the prophets manage to convert some people, and those people come with the prophets to safety. God never orders the prophets to slay infants and innocent dumb animals.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)

Like Him there is naught; He is the All-hearing, the All-seeing.

(The Koran Interpreted 42:11)

I’ve heard so many ad hoc explanations of what it means to be made in “God’s image”, each such claim more unsupported and pulled out of nowhere than the last one. There is no ambiguity in the statement that we are made in God’s image, and that the statement is meant literally is made clear by the consistently limited, human depiction of God in the Old Testament which I have showed in part here. God does not compare to us remotely, in any way, and to suggest that He does (think of his characterstics! Omnipresence! Omnipotence! And etc.) is to blaspheme greatly.

“I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.” (Exodus 20:5-6)

No soul laden bears the load of another.

(The Koran Interpreted 53:38)

God is never unjust unto His servants.

(The Koran Interpreted 8:51)