RE: Why people are religious
January 8, 2016 at 11:28 am
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2016 at 11:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 8, 2016 at 10:52 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Ok. Suppose I claim I'm a Prophet. You ask me ok if you are a Prophet, and you claim ancient Prophets were sent with miracles. Then show me a miracle. I show you a miracle. You then say, well I don't know if it's magic or not, but I will come with my tribe and we will see if you do more miracles. The tribe says only do this and that, we will believe in you and if you don't do it, we won't beleive. Like make a tree walk and then split an half, and one part move towards that direction and another move towards the other direction, without you touching it, this tree, no one but you and us. And then the next day, they come up with more demands. They are meant. Etc, etc.
Then they start making more demands like they all should be given mansions of gold and be given supply of food from the heaven etc, and then I say, God would of even given to these demands were it not that you rejected the previous demands and miracles.
However I still show more miracles, but on God's terms.
Now take that and take the stance:
Suppose I claim I'm a Prophet. And then you say do a miracle. And I say, no. You say why not? I say because all ancient people rejected the miracles of the Prophets of the past so there is no sense in proving it to you. Does it make sense?
The latter seems like a stupid lame illogical excuse, and can even be proven as such because previous Prophets after previous Prophets it didn't prevent them.
I thought the latter was the only way to interpret the verse. The former seems logical. The latter seems illogical.
The former and the latter are -both- the same lame illogical excuse...but it hardly matters..if we're discussing flaws in the quran...which I thought we were. I do wonder, ofc, how you could have failed to see the proper interpretation of that passage the very first time. If the quran is as perfect as you hilariously claim it to be, it's intent and brilliance should be obvious, even to you. There would be no need or opportunity for this irrational waffling in the first place.
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