RE: Open letter to Christians
January 30, 2016 at 7:58 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2016 at 7:59 pm by Mystic.)
I don't know how relevant this is. But when I left Islam I thought there were 24 issues with Quran that where highly problematic and were logical problems or many were even contradictions.
That said, I even wrote 28 Issues about it in a document where I shared on shiachat. People could not solve the issues. I had to solve them myself.
That said, I'm not sure if Bible contains unsolvable contradictions or not. I haven't thought about them that much.
Some of the solutions I came up with were so simple, so clear, it made me wonder why it took me five years to solve the issues.
For five years I disbelieved in religion, but I did believe in God.
My advice to you is that if you want to know if a religion is true:
Look at it's structural argument for the religion, what it is arguing...I think in Islam it's mostly by reality of the most exalted humans in particular and reality in humans in general, and everything relates to what role the exalted ones have with rest of humans, that God wants to establish through such humans.
And I look for the plan in the past, present, future with such perfect humans. I find the most eloquent manifestation of these humans to be the Quran.
This is one argument to look at it. I personally find a lot of what is stated of God's chosen ones in the bible to undermine their station.
That rituals of connection, purifying oneself, the rituals symbolizing journey to God, these are secondary, important, but secondary to the structure of the role of the most exalted humans have to do with humanity.
The Quran emphasized on the role of his chosen ones more then anything else, and showed his way with humanity through their trial.
If you want to go to details, like Hijaab or certain punishments, etc, that's relying a lot on subjectivity.
To me the same is true of studying any religion. You have to study it's over all structural argument. What's it's saying. What's argument to it bein true if it has one.
The Quran has chapters and chapters of emphasizing wisdom of God's way and his way in the past, now, and future.
That said, I even wrote 28 Issues about it in a document where I shared on shiachat. People could not solve the issues. I had to solve them myself.
That said, I'm not sure if Bible contains unsolvable contradictions or not. I haven't thought about them that much.
Some of the solutions I came up with were so simple, so clear, it made me wonder why it took me five years to solve the issues.
For five years I disbelieved in religion, but I did believe in God.
My advice to you is that if you want to know if a religion is true:
Look at it's structural argument for the religion, what it is arguing...I think in Islam it's mostly by reality of the most exalted humans in particular and reality in humans in general, and everything relates to what role the exalted ones have with rest of humans, that God wants to establish through such humans.
And I look for the plan in the past, present, future with such perfect humans. I find the most eloquent manifestation of these humans to be the Quran.
This is one argument to look at it. I personally find a lot of what is stated of God's chosen ones in the bible to undermine their station.
That rituals of connection, purifying oneself, the rituals symbolizing journey to God, these are secondary, important, but secondary to the structure of the role of the most exalted humans have to do with humanity.
The Quran emphasized on the role of his chosen ones more then anything else, and showed his way with humanity through their trial.
If you want to go to details, like Hijaab or certain punishments, etc, that's relying a lot on subjectivity.
To me the same is true of studying any religion. You have to study it's over all structural argument. What's it's saying. What's argument to it bein true if it has one.
The Quran has chapters and chapters of emphasizing wisdom of God's way and his way in the past, now, and future.
