Its Quran not Koran. Have any of you actually Read the Quran? I'm not talking about looking stuff up on the internet or referenced just portions of the Quran or pickle picking things from Fox News. Or self medicate yourself on what your ears or brain likes to hear. A well educated man is an informed man. Saying that you don't need to educate yourself on a topic is the same as attempting to apply for a job as a Doctor with no education. Or the same as a black belt in Brazilian Ju Jujitsu picking a fight with someone who has no training at all. It's no contest.
Their are 10 sections of the Quran that extremist are taking out of context. It would be no different if I were to hand pick 10 versus out of the Bible and use them to create a extremist Christian group. I am not defending what the Quran says or teaches lets make this very clear before anyone starts jumping to conclusions. That's what they are doing is taking picking it apart. Just like some people like to pick and choose Bible verses.
I want to put something into perspective for you. Imagine for a moment. You live in a Islamic country. You were born there. You have no education. You were taught by your parents who you trust most of all. You taught you the Muslim Islamic religion. You have to work instead of go to school from an early age. A group comes rolling into town one day and they are the coolest thing you have seen in years. They say to you "You want to make some real money? You want to have some girls? We have drugs too if you want to try them? You believe in the Quran right? Come to our meeting, here is $100 just show up". Your uneducated, your broke and whoa this guy just gave me $100. He said I can make real money. You go to this meeting. They tell you every wonderful thing your ears want to hear. You don't know any better. You go home and think on it. You cant read and have a pamphlet with cool looking pictures. I never been part of something. They made me feel good. They stroked my ego. I going to join. I have too have a Muslim friend everyone calls him Sonny and he is Palestinian. He explained to me that is what they do. They pick out the weakest and prey on them. If anything me and Sonny agree on. Is peace. I show him what the Bible teaches and he shows me and explains what his Quran teaches. Both religious Books similar on mostly everything. AGAIN I believe in the Bible.
Here is my logic. Is agreement on Peace wrong? Sonny and I agreed on this... You have to believe in the whole book or its nothing at all. Not pickle pick the book to comfort your selfish mind or hidden agenda which most extremist do. He showed me this passage and made me copy of it to keep. I am quoting the Quran.
"The Holy Quran, Surah 2: AL Baqarah, Section 8:62"
Those who believe in the Quran, and those who follow the Jewish scriptures, and the Christians and the Sabians. Any who believe in Allah and the Last Day (Revelations) and work in righteousness (Gods Will). Shall have their reward with their Lord; on them Shall be no fear, nor shall they Grieve.
You either believe in the whole book either the Bible and Quran depending on your free will. Or nothing at all. Is peace wrong? NO!
Just like corrupt churches here their are corrupt churches there too. Just saying.
That verse you posted is completely contradicted by this here-
Quran 4:48 "alla forgiveth not that partners should be set up with him, but he forgiveth anything else to whome he pleaseth; to set up partners with allah is to devise a sin most heinous indeed."
And for those who dont want to take that literally, as its written, here is another very similar verse-
Quran 4:116 "allah forgiveth not (the sin of) joining other gods with him; but he forgiveth whom he pleaseth other sins than this: one who joins other gods with allah , have strayed far, far away from the right."
And again, chapter 5 verse 75 tells us that Christ was no more than a prophet, and there are verses that tell us that He did not die for our sins, that no one can bear the burden of another.
So why does the quran say that those who believe in Christ will be saved.
Because Muhammad talked about an unbiblical Christ that you do not find in the bible. This is why any and every Muslim will tell you, "the bible has been corrupted".
By them saying that they believe in Christ, they are telling you they believe what
Muhammad said about Christ. So, when your read these verses, it is not the Gospel that you should believe,
its Muhammads interpretation of the bible.
So no, once again, and hopefully for the last time, no Muslims DO NOT believe in Jesus Christ, there are many verses that deny Him, and tell you that putting Him as equal with God, the very thing that He was crucified for, will lead you to eternal condemnation. No, they do not believe in Jesus Christ, they believe in Muhammad, and a Jesus spoken only by Muhammad alone.
In other words, Muhammad is the final word for any Muslim, in fact the quran tells you that you are not a Muslim if you do not accept Muhammads word as final.
And thats a rational scenario, being given things you want to go and get yourself killed for a cause. But imagine this scenario.
You know that there is a God, you have not let yourself be decieved by the world in order to enjoy your life. Because you know theres a God, you acknoledge you have done evil, and you know that you will be jugded for your sins. You know that you have something to fear.
So, in your fear and desire to find God and seek His mercy, but not yet knowing the word of God, a man comes to you with a book, written by a man who was guided by angels. He tells you the book is the way to God. This god denies the Christian God. And because of your lacking of understanding of the word of God, you let yourself follow man made laws on God. "Why would God enter His own creation? If He were truly God He would not lower Himself like that. Its not logical at all". And you let yourself become faithful and loyal to this god.
You begin to wonder how you find salvation. You are told that no one can bear the burdens of your sins. The only way to be saved is to be faithful to this god, follow all his laws perfectly, and live life as perfectly as you can, being sure you never mess up, hoping that on judgement day your good deeds will out weigh your bad deeds.
But, the man tells you theres another way. He shows you verses that tell you those who are faithful to this god slay and are slain in his cause, that he wants you to fight the unbelievers, and make war with them, and be his way of punishing them with a terrible agony.
You have already accepted that this god is God, and you believe that he will save you if you kill or die in his name. You become so faithful to him that you are willing to
give your life for him, believing that by doing this work, you will enter his kingdom, and never fear or feel pain again.
Sadly, and as much as some people hate to have to accept, these verses are 100% in the quran. You can keep saying they are misquoted and taken out of context, but these verses literally make the claim to fight the unbeliever, kill the unbeliever, fight them until there is no more disbelief, fight them until they say "there is no god but allah" and pay the jizya. If you can take verses around those commands that show that they are being taken out of context, then please feel free. Ive seen the "there is no compulsion to religion" before, and the "you have your religion and I have mine" too. But they dont undo the many commands to fight and kill.