(May 29, 2018 at 5:05 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: It's not about liberal or fundamentalist.Your God is man made as is all the others. That makes all your arguments moot.
To me 3 essential questions come to a book claiming to be from God:
1) How should a verse be seen if we look at it from the perspective it is from God.
2) How should a chapter look and be reflected about, if it is from God.
3) How can we definitely know it is from God.
I feel the problem is people belittle God and throw him behind their backs, in favor their clergy, and idols, and leaders that have no proof to be followed from God, that we end up interpreting his book in the most horrible ways possible.
Suppose Quran is not from God but a person assumes that God can speak such words in another divine book. So isolate the verse and say it's from God but forget the Quran and Islam paradigm.
What can it mean?
Of course, if we go to it with lenses to confirm our biases, we are going to impose our opinion on God's book rather then reflect on God's book so that it can guides us and give us insight.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!