RE: In need of a more humbleness. Why condemning the Theistic position makes no sense.
September 20, 2014 at 11:26 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2014 at 11:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 20, 2014 at 10:53 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Well if you look at the verse in my signature,As Islam was manufactured by men over a stretch of indeterminate time - of course- there will have been a point at which it's dogma had not been codified or set in stone. If I have to take two verses that say entirely disparate things and decide which one is the party line, or if I have to imagine that what is meant by the words on the page as something-other than- what words are on the page - the proposition is DOA. Don;t get me wrong, I like your interpretation - but something (maybe the constant invocations of hellfire and pain for the unbelievers repeated ad naus throughout the entirety of the text) tells me that it's a minority report - at best. Your verse doesn't seem, to me, to make the claim that -you- make about it. "Those that do good" would not include the unbelievers. You know as well as I that Islam (like all religions) has special definitions and categories for this sort of thing.
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