seekeroftruth
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Quran 2:71. He said, “He says she is a heifer, neither yoked to plow the earth, nor to irrigate the field; sound without blemish.” They said, “Now you have brought the truth.” So they slew her; though they almost did not.
72. And recall when you killed a person, and disputed in the matter; but God was to expose what you were hiding.
73. We said, “Strike him with part of it.” Thus God brings the dead to life; and He shows you His signs, that you may understand.
74. Then after that your hearts hardened. They were as rocks, or even harder. For there are some rocks from which rivers gush out, and others that splinter and water comes out from them, and others that sink in awe of God. God is not unaware of what you do.
75. Do you hope that they will believe in you, when some of them used to hear the Word of God, and then deliberately distort it, even after understanding it?
76. And when they come across those who believe, they say, “We believe,” but when they come together privately, they say, “Will you inform them of what God has disclosed to you, so that they might dispute with you concerning it before your Lord?” Do you not understand?
77. Do they not know that God knows what they conceal and what they reveal?
78. And among them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay, and they only speculate.
79. So woe to those who write the Scripture with their own hands, and then say, “This is from God,” that they may exchange it for a little price. Woe to them for what their hands have written, and woe to them for what they earn.
80. And they say, “The Fire will not touch us except for a number of days.” Say, “Have you received a promise from God—God never breaks His promise—or are you saying about God what you do not know?”
I know there are a couple of people on these pages who know the Quran. I would hope they would correct me if my assumptions are wrong.
I assume this portion is about fake preachers, priests, and church leaders. These verses remind me of the verses in Deuteronomy talking about the death of a neighbors cow or murder of a man. There were laws set based on the root of the crime.... was the heifer a wild thing or property. Was killing a man in an act of war the same as killing a man by accident or the same as killing a man in anger due to greed.
I just noticed.... three times I started a paragraph with the word "I". This isn't about me and what I think it says.... it's about the Quran and what it really says. Check out verse 77.... it doesn't matter what I think.... it's about what humans try to conceal or reveal.... it's about what God knows.... and God knows everything about us.... an He [We] still loves us in spite of ourselves.
Right?
