You have to prove the Quran itself it valid before you or I can quote from it since I am questioning the validity of it in the first place, it's up to you to find a none Koran source to prove what you say. I am giving you a much greater leeway than Outhouse is and you still fail :facepalm:
You see that they where correcting untruths, I see it as being changed on purpose either because Muahammad was paraphrasing and maybe misremembering from what he had heard or on purpose to prove to others that his new religion had merit.
Of course I'm being very flexible with my definition of "proof" I know. By scientific analysis, yes of course it is most definitely 99.9% plagiarized (or paraphrased to use a friendlier word, in Muhammads own words) but they are always going to use that .1% doubt that science leaves open. It's...
Like I said Muhammad and his followers put their own spin on it.
There is no proof one way or another. It's a nice opinion you have. I have mine. I'll go with the one that seems more likely to human nature than supernatural.
It seems like semantics, of course there is no proof Muhammad literally sat down and copied the torah and the bible word for word. It seems far more likely that he had plagiarized from what he had heard from others around him and put his own spin on it. I have no proof of course, but Muslims...
Yes, unfortunately the meek and the humble will be wiped out not inherit the earth. Spending all your time on God will lead to failure, the stories of people gaining the strength of God to conquer others are a fantasy made by extremists. In real spirituality you must surrender and be prepared to...
I'll agree with having a great liking for sufism. It's hard to be an extremist when you're a mystic.
If sufism was the predominate point of view in Islam I would seriously consider becoming Muslim.
I think a lot of people equate prayer in their minds with the kind of superficial prayers that children make "Dear God, please give me a million dollars"
Certainly there are a lot of people that pray this way out there but not all.
Serious prayer is indistinguishable from meditation...
Of course their is bias in their translation. But you can find instances of bias in other translations like the NIV too. I meant to say it's not as bad as people think when you look at objective critical reviews of the translations.
That's a lot to choose from. How about twisting eating blood to no blood transfusions?
It's the same as most any other Christian denomination though. They all think they're interpreting scripture "the way God wants"