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All you are doing is saying that you favour certain scholars and reject the rest.
I am only presenting what the Quran is telling. It is not about me defending Imams. I don't even care to defend. I am just giving information.
I am saying, this is what Quran says. It says, God will explain its verses through Imams. I already quoted the verse for you. You are saying what about other scholars.
If you want to investigate Quran I suggest you follow its own instructions, and see where it takes you.
Where does in Quran or even Hadith it says, learn it from any scholars? It says, learn it from very specific chosen ones of God. In the Quran it makes allusion to Muhammad, and His family and Ali as the ones who are pure and given knowledge to interpret.
If God have indeed appointed a certain people for explaining Quran, they would proclaim their duty given to them by God.
2. Renown scholars clearly consider themselves to knowledgable about the Quran. It's their job. They've spent most of their lives doing it.
Yes, they do. But they don't claim they are inspired by God. Quran gives much more importance to chosen Ones and Prophets when it comes to knowledge, because they receive knowledge from God unlike ordinary people who just study themselves.
Remember, 3:7 says, no one knows its interpretation except God and those who are well-grounded in knowledge (imams)
3. How do you know the 12 imams weren't lying?
How do we even know Muhammad was not lying or even there is a God?
I am saying, if we want to truly investigate the claim of Quran, let's follow its instruction and see where it gets us.
Except the vast majority of Muslims and other interested in Islam do not consult them. They consult more authoritative, accepted, mainstream scholars.
True.
Well, have you seen many Hadithes that says, the Majority of Muslims will end up is the Fire? Hadithes in Muslims sources!
Perhaps the Prophet knew the fate of its Religion!
I already quoted verses of Quran saying, Allah will replace them with another people.
Do you even read my posts?
It is interesting though that your "correct interpretation" requires massive leaps of reasoning and logical gymnastics, basically making up content, while the "false" ones make far more sense in context of time, place, ideology, and the actual words used in the Quran.
It only looks this way. As Quran says, no one knows its interpretation except God (3:7). Doesn't that tell us, there are things in the Quran, that one cannot possibly know it's hidden interpretations, and thus when we are told, we could not possibly guess, and that's why it looks like gymnastics?
See Surrah of Joseph. There is a reason for this Surrah. A Man saw in dream sever fat cows. But its interpretation was seven years of prosperity. Joseph saw 11 stars, the Sun and moon bow down to Him.
Do you know what was its interpretation?
In the same way, there are things in Quran that only God knows its meaning. This is what it claims. So, how do you know this is false?