My late teacher and friend, Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916-2000), described the Koran (certainly for Muslims) as “the eternal breaking through into time; the unknowable disclosed; the transcendent entering history and remaining here, available to mortals to handle and to appropriate; the divine become apparent.” The Koran, in this particular sense, is God’s mercy for human beings who, unaided by its words, can scarcely imagine truthfully His presence unless He discloses Himself.
Sorry, but um, this is already exactly what was done in the Incarnation of Christ and which continues to this day in the Church.
What you are claiming for the Koran is not only completely unoriginal, but its already been done better, as all of it happened in a flesh and blood being as opposed to some scratchings on paper.
Tell me which is the greater creation? Man or some words on paper?
If God were going to break into time as you say, why would he stop at some words on paper? If he were going to make his greatest revealation in time then he would settle for nothing less than his greatest creation as his form.
You seem to just completely ignore the fact that what you are saying is word for word the same as the Christian claim about the Incarnation. You can apparently imagine God breaking into time and space in a book but not in flesh.
Why? Because the Koran denies that the Incarnation happened? Just because it says so?
What a paltry God yours must be since he can only express Himself in time in a book. Either that or he hates and shuns the flesh that he has on the other hand declared to be good and the best of all Creation.
But I am wasting my breath. You are talking only to yourself and hearing only what you want to hear, living in lala land where you can post only your florid replies to letters that noone else has seen with no accountabilty or obligation to either fully disclose or to reply to anyone speaking back to you. I guess you must think you are doing a great work not realizing that you are just annoying people, especially me.
Please stop your warped regurgitation of Christian theology in Muslim guise. Its getting really old now.
