Qran

Having completed reading the book of Revelations, I have set aside the Bible for a time. There is much that wasn't understood in my reading, and many chapters in the Old Testament that I had missed-- and that I will want to get back to. Regardless, I have made more progress, in both reading and understanding, than in previous attempts to read. I have provided myself with many concepts to mentally digest, and hold up to the world around me to compare and contrast. The holy books are meant for more than simply reading; they must be applied to life in order to understand them, whether you believe in them or not.

This then brings me to a promise I made to myself at the beginning of the year: To read the Qran, and learn its true message. I want to know if Islam is a faith that is intended to be centered on bloodshed and hatred, or if our gods are the same.

This book opens as the Bible does, and speaks of Adam, and the covenant with Israel. I see from this that Islam believes that Allah is the same as the God of Abraham, who is also the God of the Christians.

Does he then have the same message for us as he does for them? Or does he truly charge them to clean this world in a rampage of ignorance?