Let's face it, we can discuss this stuff for centuries, but it all comes down to this. To anyone who reads the Bible the way we Baha'is read our Writings, then Islam is false. <
Yet, if one is as fortunate, as was I, to read the Bible for understanding without reference to what people have said is the meaning of the Bible, one might be as fortunate, as was this servant, to pass from embracing the Bible only to embracing the Bible and the Qur'an as well.
To anyone who reads the Quran the way we Baha'is read our Writings, it is clear that Baha'u'llah is false. It can be no other way. Believing in the literal inerrancy of religious writings guarantees <
And if anyone who has embraced the Qur'an reads it without reference to what people have said it means, and turns to God and God alone for understanding, one will find that the Qur'an alone is the Guiding Light to this Most Great Revelation
It is a form of Idolatry.>>
The Book, whatever Book can never becom an idol. However, an individual's belief about the meaning of that Book can indeed become an idol to him and to those who follow him. Mankind has a tendency to believe what it believes and then attribute what it believes to the Word of God. Is He not exalted above what they impute to Him? The Book is for the guidance of mankind to the recognition of God. If one has truly recognized that guidance and has truly recognized God then he will recognize Him on the Day of Resurrection. It is a grave error, to my mind, to follow the ways of men in the understanding of the ways of God and of what He has caused to be revealed..
Richard..
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