Harley, there are plenty of scriptures in the Torah and Bible that speak similarly. The common thread of the 3 Judaic religions and their offshoots is that the believers are the chosen ones, that god favors them about all others, and that he will smite the non-believers and/or make them the servants of the chosen ones. As it is with religion books, most people cling to the specific writings that match their hearts. You won't often - if ever - hear loving and open-hearted people quote the domineering parts of the Bible, Torah and Quran.
Could you please share a few from the old testament that tell Jews to murder innocent civilians because they arent Jewish? I dont remember that in the Torah. TIA
That is totally untrue on all counts. It’s not the “final word” of God (Muhammad was considered to be a prophet just as they consider Jesus, Abraham, Isaiah, Moses, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc. Islam accepts all believers who are “People of the Book,” meaning the scriptures of the Abrahamic religions, and Islam is predominantly a peaceful religion with a profound devotion to the concept of brotherhood among it’s 1.5 billion adherents. The are relatively few extremists who have probably been groomed, agitated and provoked to be that way.
The Islamic interpretive laws of abrogation indicate that the Prophet's earlier writings are superseded by anything he wrote after, because they are contradictory. This is confused by the fact that the Qu'ran is ordered by length of chapter, not chronologically.
Deeper studies show the verses of peace to be early in his prophetic career, and verses of jihad, conquest, slavery & conversion much later, as he discovered that conversion was more successful at sword point.
There may be Islamic scholars who can argue against the way I understand it, but abrogation is important in interpretation of the Qu'ran.
Islam claims to be the "Final word of God"
“And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam it will never be accepted of him and in the hereafter he will be one of the losers.” (3:85)
The adherents of Islam are NOT peaceful.
Harley, there are plenty of scriptures in the Torah and Bible that speak similarly. The common thread of the 3 Judaic religions and their offshoots is that the believers are the chosen ones, that god favors them about all others, and that he will smite the non-believers and/or make them the servants of the chosen ones. As it is with religion books, most people cling to the specific writings that match their hearts. You won't often - if ever - hear loving and open-hearted people quote the domineering parts of the Bible, Torah and Quran.
Could you please share a few from the old testament that tell Jews to murder innocent civilians because they arent Jewish? I dont remember that in the Torah. TIA
That is totally untrue on all counts. It’s not the “final word” of God (Muhammad was considered to be a prophet just as they consider Jesus, Abraham, Isaiah, Moses, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc. Islam accepts all believers who are “People of the Book,” meaning the scriptures of the Abrahamic religions, and Islam is predominantly a peaceful religion with a profound devotion to the concept of brotherhood among it’s 1.5 billion adherents. The are relatively few extremists who have probably been groomed, agitated and provoked to be that way.
The Islamic interpretive laws of abrogation indicate that the Prophet's earlier writings are superseded by anything he wrote after, because they are contradictory. This is confused by the fact that the Qu'ran is ordered by length of chapter, not chronologically.
Deeper studies show the verses of peace to be early in his prophetic career, and verses of jihad, conquest, slavery & conversion much later, as he discovered that conversion was more successful at sword point.
There may be Islamic scholars who can argue against the way I understand it, but abrogation is important in interpretation of the Qu'ran.