Jiang reads the Quran as telling Abrahamic factions that they are all children of God and should stop fighting over later sectarian differences.
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Jiang interprets the Quran as Nestorian: Jesus is not God but a messenger who tells people to worship Allah, the one God.
Jiang reads the Quran as evidence that Muhammad's message was to collapse Jewish and Christian divisions into Abrahamic monotheism.
The same clarity that powers Islam's rise can later become inflexibility: eternal Quranic truth and simple practice can harden innovation into dogma.
Jiang says the Christian New Testament treats the Hebrew Bible as the Old Testament promise fulfilled in Jesus, and that the Quran later arises from an interpretation of the Bible.
Jiang says bad translations have limited his reading of the Quran and that full depth likely requires Arabic.
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"...but they say the problem is you have to read the Quran in Arabic. You have, you have to, like, learn Arabic first. You..."
"O people of the book, why do you argue about Abraham when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after him? Why..."
"...Gabriel, visited him and spoke the truth of the universe. The Quran is just a writing down of all these revelations, okay? And one..."
"Okay, so this is really important. What the Quran is saying is this. Jesus is not God. God is God. God is Allah. Jesus..."
"They disbelieved those who say, Allah is a third of three. But there is no giant except one God. If they do not refrain..."
"Okay, so it's just saying that the Holy Trinity, it's sacrilege. It's blessing. Trust me, it makes no sense, man. God is God. God..."
"While they not repent to Allah as ask his forgiveness, Allah is forgiving and merciful. The Messiah's son of Mary was only a messenger,..."
"Okay, to say that Mary is divine, to say that Jesus is divine, it's all superstitious. They're all just messengers of the one true..."
"...written records of Muhammad. But what we do believe is, the Quran, it is a collection of many of Muhammad's original sayings that have..."
"Allah knows and you do not know. Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a monotheist, a Muslim. Okay? So,..."
"Alright? And so what this means is you now know how to behave in the world. There's a clarity of purpose and action. You..."
"The Bible was extremely clear the Quran is extremely clear. But if that's the case then you cannot allow for radical rejection of the..."
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