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To: IN_GOD_I_TRUST who wrote (383)	12/1/2001 1:49:21 PM
From: gda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 758

IGIT, Don't get obsessed with the Koran. It was written almost 1400 years ago for nomad people that lived in a cruel world. Of course things changed. We cannot understand fully their way of thinking. I assume the koran was more clear to them then, as it related to events in their near history. Most Muslims realize this. The Mullahs etc. who try to bring them back fourteen hundred years are not going to succeed, you simply cannot stop progress for long. Your requirement that a sacred book must "be readable" is like saying that the Old Testament should have been written in modern English. And by the way, none of these books was "written" by God. You want a simple proof? God is perfect. None of the scripture is. This is my honest opinion and you have every right to disagree. GDA

To: IN_GOD_I_TRUST who wrote (383)	12/1/2001 2:22:20 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 758

Lots of people claim to understand books. The problem is that they seldom agree on that understanding. If this weren't the case there wouldn't be so many sects and subgroupings of the world's various faiths. I agree completely that it would be a strange concept of God indeed to imagine that He would place requirements on us and then not make those requirements obvious to all. Combine that with the observation that humanity clearly does not and has never agreed on a common understanding of those requirements and perhaps you may wish to consider an alternative view of God as one who has no requirements. Books are pieces of paper. The only living understanding is that which dwells within each human heart. A God of Fear may be found in many books. The God of Love lives within all.