This blog contains the insights, questions, and reflections of college students from various institutions in Atlanta: currently, the members of the Spring 2014 Introduction to Sacred Texts at Spelman College and, previously, the members of the Fall 2012 Introduction to Sacred Texts class at Emory University.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
The part of this weeks readings that caught my attention the most was about the "obligatory teachings" in which the Qur'an outlines how it is wrong to change God's laws or make false statements about what is or isn't lawful. What I find to be ambiguous about this is that while a person may not explicitly make up new laws and claim them to be true, it is easy for a person to bend the law and claim that their own interpretation is true. Instead of saying, this is law, a person who wants to change the way a society is run could simply say, this is what God meant. I find this to be a sort of loophole for making false claims about the law.
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