Sceptic"s annotated Quran

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I kind of believe that there might be some sort of creative force behind everything, now that creative force might be inteligent, so I am going to call that creative force God.

There might indeed be an intelligent creator, though I am faithful that there is not, so I would have to be wrong if there is one or more. A creative force (with intelligence) could be an intelligence spawned by the Big Bang, or it could be video game designers. But the intent of the idea is the same. I shy away from the religious answers because I frankly don't see why a God or gods would require anything of us (things that they designed). But then I might suffer from not having the intellectual capacity of understanding such a being... not unlike how a termite could hardly be expected to understand a television.

So I am looking into diferent explanations for what is God like and because of the reality of sufering I would say that God would be someone who can handle our pain otherwise I believe he would prevent it. The theistic God is described as such since there is punishment of eternal torment.

Though one should also note that such a being might be malevolent, and actively seek to cause pain for whatever sadistic whim. Sometimes I could swear a being like this exists

This kind of thinking sometimes leads me to reading the Quran and trying to understand and see if it is possible that it might be realy inspired by God. And the only answer that I got so far is that its only the literalists who would be fazed by my question.

I can be inspired by a great piece of art, such that I do not attempt to replicate the perfection I see, but form a tribute to it in what ways I can. The Bible and Quran, if truly inspired by God, are simply written by others that admire Him (and/or his works). A literalist expects that the people who wrote this got their words from God, and therefore they are perfect. Others, like me, don't demand perfection out of a review of a perfect thing. Does this better help explain how it might be inspired by God?

I would like to say to all the traditional muslims, I don't mean to offend, I am simply looking for how do you explain the contradictions?

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