Christians, have you read the Qur'an with the same openness and attention to proper interpretation that you want me to apply to the Bible?

I am not a Christian but yes, I have. I read it, and the bible, decades ago. I wrote a paper in college comparing Christianity and Islam. Not the mainstream conservative nonsense, or the fundamenatlist/terrorist BS, but the true teachings of the savior and the prophet.

Christians, and mainstream Muslims, generally only listen to what the false prophets tell them.

No i haven't. However, I have lived a life full of experiences and studied the writing the Bible enough to know my God is real and that I don't need to keep searching for answers when i know I already found them.

I would ask that you visit FACTV.org some time and try watching some of the archived services if you want to see christianity going by the book and applied to life in the only way that works. (the only way that works is if you follow the foundations for the church laid out by the Bible in its entirety, many churches today change christianity to fit what they want instead of how its was laid out by God. Thats why theres so many spiritually dead churches and christians where you don't feel anything from them.)

If you don't want to study the Bible I understand. Just before you entirely write it off try watching a service or two. It only takes a little bit of time and it will let you see what christianity is really all about. I won't ask you to read the whole Bible, because I know you don't want to like how I don't really want to read the Qur'an. I'm just asking you to watch one service, it only takes up as much time as watching a movie would. No commitment, no pressure, it's just my way of inviting you to see my church like I would anyone else I meet.

I hope you have a great rest of your day, and thanks for reading my answer if you do!

I have an English translation Qur'an here and have tried to read it openly, but can only ever get so far without having to lay it aside. Then I pick it up later and have another go, to continue where I stopped, but the same thing happens. To be honest, I find the way it reads alarmingly similar to the boring way the Book of Mormon is written. The Bible, by contrast, reads much more like a 'regular' book does (apart from those yawning genealogical lists and temple dimensions, that is. Fortunately, there are few such passages!)

A problem with translations of the Qur'an is that they are no longer in the language the Qur'an is supposed to be read in - Arabic. This is in a letter by Zaka Ullah, an Indian Muslim leader, to his Christian friend, Charles Freer Andrews; it illustrates what the Qur'an means in terms of simple, contemporary piety;

"You will never understand this power and warmth of religion among us [Muslims] until you can feel in your heart the poetry and music of the noble Qur'an."

The chanting of the Qur'an in Arabic is the primary music of Islam. It is the soul of Islam and is reflected in the speech of all faithful Muslims. Muslim piety and even scholarship demand memorization and recitation of the Qur'an. The reason for this is quite simple. The Qur'an is, first and foremost, a scripture to be confessed by rehearsing its contents. The fundamental characteristic of Muslim piety and faith is vocal participation in the articulation of Qur'anic content. Indeed the divine injunction is claimed to be 'Recite the Qur'an' (Qur'an 73:20f.). As it was written in Arabic, so it must be recited in Arabic. Hence, the pledge of true discipleship lies in recruiting the memory and the voice. Silent assent is not a witness to Muslim piety or faith, so Muslims believe.

Secondly, 'proper interpretation' of the Qur'an lies in what the Hadiths (traditions) state. No individual is allowed to try to interpret the Qur'an apart from scholars who have studied the massive collection of Hadiths. The legalists tell Muslims what the Qur'an means in everyday life / practice. So you must not encourage Christians to try to interpret the Qur'an! You should only encourage them to go to the imams to be told what it means.

This means that there is no comparison between reading/interpreting the Bible, and reading/interpreting the Qur'an. You dare not treat one set of scriptures the same as the other set. They disallow that themselves!

No. One of the oldest versions of the Qoran has been found here in Birmingham UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0aiD6VDUfA

Problem with the Qoran is that the original lacked punctuation meaning that it could be interpreted in any way.

I remain a lifelong Skeptic - I'm convinced that Mohammad was God's Messenger here on Earth - however I find it disrespectful here in Christian England to keep babbling on about him being God's last messenger. What Muslims fail to understand is the deep conviction among Christians that the Christ will return.

Gott mit uns

No, because you don't believe in the Qur'an as much as this Christian does.

Just as some Muslims believe in parts of the Bible in the context of Qur'an and other Muslim holy texts, I believe in the Qur'an in the context of the Bible.

i have not, but i have listened to those who have, who were raised on the qur'an and i trust what they tell me...

have you read mein kampf with an open mind ? how about mao's little red book or the communist manifesto ?

you see, you don't have to be afflicted with every disease to know that being healthy is better than being sick...

listen what those who have come out of islam are now saying:

No prophecies exist in the Quran! White Christians think the Bible is talking about them when in fact it condemns them. They are the Edomite the bible speaks of. They NEVER want to that about the book of Obadiah. The Bible is the History of the blacks they stole from the West Coast of Africa, the true Children of Israel by bloodline!

The Koran tells muslims to read the Injil(the gospels), and if you dont understand it find someone to explain it to you, the Koran also quotes the scriptures, so if the bible has been changed, why are there scriptures quoted in the Koran?

Any way, the Koran is full of threats of hellfire and everlasting punishment. The scriptures explain death is the opposite of life, from dust you are and to dust you shall return. The Catholic Church when it was formed by the Romans, adopted the pagan Greek idea about something popping out of your mouth when you died. Not a bible teaching. The references to fire in the bible have to do with everlasting death, not everlasting torture. Islam adopted this erroneous idea from its outset. So matrys think they are flying off to heaven when the die, they are not! The scriptures explain we all die because of Adam a perfect son of god, a perfect son of god came to earth, and gave his life to release us from death. Very simple to comprehend.

No, I haven't, but why should I? I know that the Quran does not acknowledge Jesus Christ to be God Himself, God incarnate in human flesh, according to John 1:1-18. I know that Islam claims that Jesus was nothing more than a prophet, and that He was never resurrected.

And that's all I need to know about the Quran.

i am not a christian but yeah, i have... i read it, and the bible, decades ago... i wrote a paper in college comparing christianity and islam... not the mainstream conservative nonsense, or the fundamenatlist/terrorist bs, but the true teachings of the savior and the prophet...

christians, and mainstream muslims, generally only listen to what the false prophets tell them...