Re: "I am both Muslim and Christian" Rev Ann Holmes Redding



On 30 Dec 2007, 14:17, Quasin <qua...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kendall K. Down wrote:
In message <1b8f6d0d-4d92-4297-8075-6a9d988fb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
nobody <whena...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you want to understand Christianity, you need to approach it without
the dubious benefit of the Qur'an.

I could say the very same to you. If you truly want paradise then stop
finding it through the conjecture of the bible.

In fairness, I think nobody has a perfectly proper point.

Interesting, I misread him to be saying if you want to understand
paradise, look to Islam instead of to Christianity.

But you are right, he didn't say that, he said stop looking to the
Bible, which from a Christian would probably mean "get in touch with
God, learn from God instead of from human conjecture based on Bible
readings or readings from any other book."

Does Islam teach to put the book aside and seek God directly?

If you to be put the book aside never to pick it up again then no?

If you are talking of a form of prayer that does not require the book
then yes.
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