(March 29, 2014 at 3:55 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(March 29, 2014 at 3:39 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: But, you state that you interpret the Qur'an in your own way? Many Christians do the same thing, when it comes to 'interpreting Scripture.' At the end of the day, if you are not comfortable with what your holy book blatantly states, why follow it at all? Seems to me that the holy books of the Abrahamic faiths all have passages that their followers disagree with...but THAT is the religion. Not what you decide it is.
That is why I left Christianity. Because I no longer could continue making excuses for what I knew it stood for.
I know where you are coming from, and I understand. I sort of took this position, but, when I saw verses explaining other verses and the conclusion you must come up with if you don't want the Quran contradicting itself, then these verses don't seem to be problematic but it was rather in a narrow interpretation we had without keeping our minds open.
You seem to think interpretation against classical view would be going against what it explicitly states, but I think often, classical views are going against what Quran explicitly states and are following scholars instead.
So ur mind was made up before the climax!
