I used the word debate because I though "Chatting" would be to informal.
Ok I'll give you that (benefit of the doubt).
I'm trying to undertand Islamic belife by asking questions and questioning the answers because I don't undertsand.I seem to be incapible of just reading the Koran and accepting it for what it is saying, I guess I can't get out of my non-mulsim, western cultured brain. The question "Why" seems more important to me than "Accept" I'd make a rubbish muslim but I don't drink so that's a start![/B]
As if none of us here have never asked that question 'Why'. The Quran does not demand belief, it invites belief. It is not simply delivered as: here is what you are to believe, but throughout the Quran the statements are always: Have you O man thought of such and such, have you considered so and so. It is always an invitation for you to look at the evidence; now what you believe. That is what Quran asks you to do thinks, reason and try to understand. Most of the Quran came in response to question people had. That is why two statement to be found throughout the Quran are 'They say', meaning they ask you oh Muhammad (pbuh) and 'Say' i.e. tell them.
I guess I can't get out of my non-mulsim, western cultured brain.The question "Why" seems more important to me than "Accept" I'd make a rubbish muslim but I don't drink so that's a start!
Where did the west got this concept of asking the question 'WHY' in first place???? Hopefully I wont have to tell you that.
Ok I'll give you that (benefit of the doubt).
I'm trying to undertand Islamic belife by asking questions and questioning the answers because I don't undertsand.I seem to be incapible of just reading the Koran and accepting it for what it is saying, I guess I can't get out of my non-mulsim, western cultured brain. The question "Why" seems more important to me than "Accept" I'd make a rubbish muslim but I don't drink so that's a start![/B]
As if none of us here have never asked that question 'Why'. The Quran does not demand belief, it invites belief. It is not simply delivered as: here is what you are to believe, but throughout the Quran the statements are always: Have you O man thought of such and such, have you considered so and so. It is always an invitation for you to look at the evidence; now what you believe. That is what Quran asks you to do thinks, reason and try to understand. Most of the Quran came in response to question people had. That is why two statement to be found throughout the Quran are 'They say', meaning they ask you oh Muhammad (pbuh) and 'Say' i.e. tell them.
I guess I can't get out of my non-mulsim, western cultured brain.The question "Why" seems more important to me than "Accept" I'd make a rubbish muslim but I don't drink so that's a start!
Where did the west got this concept of asking the question 'WHY' in first place???? Hopefully I wont have to tell you that.