It is about the teaching and understanding. Misunderstanding and misinterpretation problems is there in every religion. How many sects you Christians have? All they are teaching the same? It is applicable to Islam too. Shiite teaches many things different from Sunni teachigs. They can’t take responsibility of each others. That is what nonesense.
Nope, that’s not going to wash.
The number of Christian sects and teachings is irrelevant because Christians don’t claim the right to administer the civil government, Islam does and it does so claiming the authority of the Koran and/or Mohammed.
If you admit to misunderstandings and misinterpretations then you have to give up the claim you are rulings by God’s authority. As I said, you can’t have it both ways, and we learned that in the middle ages.
Fatwas are not from God. Scholars do that. It can be accepted or rejected.
Now you’re arguing in bad faith.
Fatwahs are the scholars authorization to the faithful to take an action that is religiously justified. That is “speaking for Allah” by definition.
Whether it is accepted or rejected is irrelevant to what it is supposed to be.
You are just playing a verbal shell game like claiming you aren’t a perfectionist: you just want things doen “right.”
Yaa. Only problem is, you don’t know what to follow.
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We all are following some rules of someone.
Even if that is true, which I’m not agreeing to, we believe it’s not up to one person to answer the “who to follow” question for another person, at least in the area of religion, because as you said “there are misunderstandings and misinterpretations.”
Sure. There was a good one in this morning’s mass reading.
Galatians 5:
5:1
For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.*
2
It is I, Paul, who am telling you that if you have yourselves circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
3Once again I declare to every man who has himself circumcised that he is bound to observe the entire law.*
4
You are separated from Christ, you who are trying to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
5For through the Spirit, by faith, we await the hope of righteousness.
6
For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
7
You were running well; who hindered you from following (the) truth?*
8
That enticement does not come from the one who called you.
9
A little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough.
10I am confident of you in the Lord that you will not take a different view, and that the one who is troubling you will bear the condemnation, whoever he may be.
11
As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case, the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished.
12
Would that those who are upsetting you might also castrate themselves!
13
For you were called for freedom, brothers. But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve one another through love.*
14
For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
15
But if you go on biting and devouring one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.
16I say, then: live by the Spirit and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh.*
17
For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you want.
18But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness,
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idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions,
21occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.*
22
In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
23gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
24
Now those who belong to Christ (Jesus) have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.
25If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit.
26*Let us not be conceited, provoking one another, envious of one another.
The misunderstanding and Mis interpretation makes people make their own law and Islam. That is how there gonna be 72 sects which teaches wrong Islam.
Then as I said earlier, one can not claim Islam gives them the authority to rule.