I can tell you some reasons why I did not accept the Quran before I became a Christian.
1) 2:106 Whenever we abrogate any revelation, or cause it to be forgotten, we bring a better one or at least a similar one. Do you not know that God is omnipotent?
I don't think that God's revelation can be abrogated. Neither, apparently, does the Quran in its better moments:
6:34 And this will always be the case; God's system is unchangeable.
18:27 You shall recite what is revealed to you from your Lord; nothing shall abrogate His words, and you shall not find any other sources besides it.
2) 2:256 There shall be no compulsion in religion. The truth is now distinguishable from falsehood. Thus, those who reject idolworship and believe in God alone have grasped the strongest bond that never breaks.
9:29 You shall fight those who do not believe in God and the last day, nor abide by the prohibitions decreed by God and His mesenger, nor uphold the religiouis truth among the followers of previous scripture, unless they pay the expiation willingly, and without a grudge.
9:5 Once the sacred months are over, you shall kill the idol worshipers whenever you encounter them, and capture them, and besiege them, and keep after them. However, if they repent, and observe the salat prayers and zakat charity, then you shall pardon them.
I thought there "shall be no compulsion in religion"?
3) 4:34 As for the women who show rebellion, you shall first enlighten them, then desert them in bed, and you may beat them as a last resort.
I don't think so.
As one reads the Quran, just as when reading the Book of Mormon, it's very clear that the writer has the Bible in mind and is trying to borrow credibility from it. The BoM and the Quran make no sense without the Bible. They are parasitic on it.
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2:106 Whenever we abrogate any revelation, or cause it to be forgotten, we bring a better one or at least a similar one. Do you not know that God is omnipotent?
So God, being omnipotent, can abrogate any reveleation; canceling or replacing it.
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6:34 And this will always be the case; God's system is unchangeable.
So God's system is unchangeable - except when it's changed.
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18:27 You shall recite what is revealed to you from your Lord; nothing shall abrogate His words, and you shall not find any other sources besides it.
So God's revelations can be abrogated, but nothing can abrogate them. This is, as they say, a contradiction and therefore repugnant to the intellect.
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2:256 There shall be no compulsion in religion. The truth is now distinguishable from falsehood. Thus, those who reject idolworship and believe in God alone have grasped the strongest bond that never breaks.
"No compulsion in religion." Got it.
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9:29 You shall fight those who do not believe in God and the last day, nor abide by the prohibitions decreed by God and His mesenger, nor uphold the religiouis truth among the followers of previous scripture, unless they pay the expiation willingly, and without a grudge.
There shall be no compulsion in religion ... except when there is compulsion. This sounds like something from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
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9:5 Once the sacred months are over, you shall kill the idol worshipers whenever you encounter them, and capture them, and besiege them, and keep after them. However, if they repent, and observe the salat prayers and zakat charity, then you shall pardon them.
OK, kill them, just don't "compel" them. Right. Wait. What was that?