(May 29, 2018 at 12:01 am)MysticKnight Wrote:You expect us to take you seriously but you believe in sorcery?(May 28, 2018 at 10:10 pm)The Industrial Atheist Wrote: But one wonders why Allah left room for misinterpretation.
You bring a good and important subject. One of the purposes of Quran or perhaps it's primary purpose, is so we reflect.
It also has forbidden explicitly to follow what we have no knowledge of.
Without reflection, people won't understand. Without understanding proofs it offers, we will never unite on it's truths.
If we follow scholars who wish to lead us and act like they are our great leaders and attribute purity to themselves, we are bound to err, like all people erred in religion in the past.
Also no verse is to be believed in blindly, because, you can then misinterpret it and follow a misinterpretation out of ignorance, all in the name of following God.
God wishes to guide humans, but he needs us to reflect.
He condemned in the Quran severely people who gave up natural knowledge they had of right and wrong for leaders or even for lies attributed to scriptures by scholars.
So it's per Quran never good enough to believe in something because a "holy book" says so, but rather, a holy book must be studied and believed in the truths it iterates, and truth should not be mixed with falsehood.
I believe people always assume worst interpretations when comes to Quran due to sorcery. For example, obeying those who hold the Authority from us...in 4:59, despite the context, people make it as if it refers to rulers be they good or evil.
Without reflection, all it's proofs remain ambiguous. With reflection, it's full of insights and iterates proofs well.
To believe any of it dogmatically and blindly, goes against it's whole message that it's meant to be followed with knowledge and assessed for it's clear bright signs, and guidance is about seeing and perceiving; not following blindly.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!