RE: If Islam is a religion of peace why did it expand through military conquests?
January 18, 2014 at 8:36 pm
(January 18, 2014 at 8:07 pm)Chad32 Wrote: He didn't do a good job conveying his message.
Perhaps we didn't do a good job of receiving his message in some places? Communication is a two way kind of thing so there's scope for some misunderstanding. Anything in the Bible that you feel within you isn't conducive to Gods true morality that you know in your inner heart is a little bit of something that just ended up in there. You can't really go through it with a read pen as it is written in a real historical context. Just cherry pick the shit out of it based on this inner guidance. You can't do this with the Quran though as it's meant to be 100% perfect.
Quote:If you come to my house to write something down that I think is very important, I will do everything in my power to make sure you get it just right.
The employer can give perfect instructions to his employees but the employees can still fuck up. The fault is on the employees not the employer. The Jews did a reasonable job of it though, the Old Testament/Torah isn't really as bad as all that. The central message is put across well. Plenty of info on God and his nature as well, still holds up today. The Iliad of Homer doesn't so much that's a good comparison. Eternal truths of the Lords Word *pounds Bible*
Quote: My reading of the bible, and learning about things surrounding the stories of the bible led me to believe it's not any more divinely inspired than any other book out there about creator gods and men who were born of virgins and rose again three days after they got killed.
There could be a little divine inspiration in stories outside the Bible of course, if there's any universal quality you're noticing. But there most likely was a real historical Jesus/Yeshua at the heart of it somewhere. What we know of him is difficult to say as nothing contemporary was recorded.
Quote: And there are older religions with those stories in them.
They serve to reinforce the message.
Quote: If Yahweh really existed, he just comes off as very outdated and not very good at his job.
The problem doesn't come from Gods end we're the sinful creatures here not him.
Quote: Almost like he doesn't understand us any more than we understand him.
He knows our inner most being, he created it he will know.
"For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb." Psalm 139:13
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.
