Simply by logic and reason, you can see that if something is the truth, God’s truth, it cannot stand against itself. Therefore the truth must be ONE, and a Document cannot be Truth by itself. A document must be explained, especially one that was written 1,400, or in my case, 2,000 years ago. Can’t you see the different interpretations humans have given to your Koran. Thats what humans do. They are self serving unless God shows them the way to self-giving.
My question is, “Who am I supposed to Believe?” You say the Koran says this, this guy says the Koran says that, and Hamas says the Koran says this, and the American Muslim says the Koran says this…can you not see that someone must have authority to tell us humans what is the CORRECT INTERPRETAION of the words. Thus, this must come only from God(since we both claim our words have come from Him) Since your prophet died, there is noone left to tell us what exactly it means.
The Bible was written by the Church, not the other way around. God gave us the Church, through his only Son, Jesus Christ, in order to make sure his followers did not stray from the Truth. God would not leave us a thousand page book without an interpreter. God knows human nature.
And looking at history, you cannot possible think that every human up until Jesus’(or Muhhamed’s) time was without the Truth. The Catholic faith is the completion and fufillment of the Jewish faith that God has established from the beginning of the human race. If you claim that neither the Jews or the Christians had it right, then what about the billions of people before Jesus’ time? Were they just left to fend for themselves without the words of Muhammed? That’s lunacy.
I just cannot accept what you say about the Koran…because its different from what others say about it and there is no continuing Muslim heirarchy that claims authority over that document, which would lead me to what your religion teaches explicetly.
You dont have to go far to find EXACTLY what the Catholic Church teaches. It is written down, developed, and explained to accompany every generations questions, and every generations problems. It is current, and alive, and noone can ever say, “What is the teaching of the Catholic Church on this issue or that issue” because it is clearly written and explained as all questions arise.
Tell me, …What does your religion teach about embryonic stem cell research?
What does your religion teach in realation to currently applicable standards in bioethics?
What does your religion teach about abortion?
What does your religion teach about corporate price fixing controls in current business practice?
I can tell you what mine teaches on these, and evey other technological, bioethical and social problem that will ever arise in the future of humans. I just point the way to the Church and the Pope, who claim authority from God himself to keep us ignorant, self-serving people within the law of God