(July 10, 2011 at 7:42 am)fr0d0 Wrote: 1. Yes
2. Yes
3. It depends what kind of Muslim you are, according to your own words. If you take it strictly literally you could justify wife beating and murdering infadels. If you apply more subtle reasoning (as with apologetics given by yourself) then you can appear to be pretty much in line with secular thinking.
Fair enough, and yes, I do not take everything literally as there is the issue of interpretation and reasoning involved in the process of understanding the Quran.
(July 10, 2011 at 7:42 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Well I wasn't talking to you of course! But let me explain...
I know, but I just wanted to understand your comments to him. This is an open discussion anyways.
(July 10, 2011 at 7:42 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Firstly, humans are created in God's image:
Which is according to Genesis, although I do not maintain that belief because Islam teaches that God does not have the appearance of any created thing. He is One and Unique, different from all physical things, as mentioned in the Quran, "Say: He is God, the One and Only; God, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him" (112:1-4). Therefore, I do not imagine God as literally having a face, hands, and a body like that of human beings or other creatures.
This is according to Islam and not Christianity. So, we may agree to disagree on this.
(July 10, 2011 at 7:42 am)fr0d0 Wrote: And secondly, God turned that on it's head with making himself the sacrifice to us and aboloshing sacrifice to him.
So God himself can be sacrificed (in Christian belief), right?
But when Abraham slaughtered a ram, was that God sacrificing himself, or was that a sacrifice to God? I mean, what kind of a sacrifice was that? (Just a simple question).
