yes, and here's why: Let's assume that even 10% of the verses seem like contradictions and untruths to me (even though I honestly believe they're far far less than that), then given that I'm convinced in the rest (90%) then chances are I'm simply misreading those 10% for whatever reason.
Aren't you doing here the same thing you were complaining the Shia were doing, in this discussion:
http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=14542.msg400317#msg400317 ?
shia believe that the lineage of Muhammed, all the way down to Adam, doesn't contain any pagans. Which is very wrong of course, and the Quran itself exposes this since it called the father of Abraham God's enemy, and an idol worshipper whom God won't forgive despite Abraham's promise to his father to pray to God on his behalf. Of course, since Muhammed comes off the lineage of Ishmael, this means that, according to Quran, AT LEAST one person in the lineage of Muhammed was certainly a pagan.
Now, you present this iron clad proof to them, and they tell you, after much heated debate: no, it was his uncle!!!! when Abraham was calling his father, "father", he really meant uncle!
That's just one example of many I bombarded them with (and I only use the watertight proofs) and that didn't move them an inch. They simply read the Quran however they want.
Aren't they effectively saying that "given that we're convinced of the rest 99% percent of things, then
chances are we're simply misreading this verse for whatever reason" ?
And later you said:
they read the Quran however they wish. If the word is “father” and father, in Arabic, means nothing but father, and that destroys a myth they believe in, and potentially jeopardize the credibility of their Mullahs (which was my goal, btw), then they’re going to read father as uncle.
So I could paraphrase this and say that "debunker reads the Quran however he wishes. If there's a clear contradiction in the Quran, and that destroys a myth he believes in, and potentially jeopardizes the credibility of the Quran, then he’s going to say he misreads the whole thing for whatever reason", right?
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