What do you think about this verses of Quran?

[Anonymous]

AL-MAEDA
14. And because of their breaking their covenant, We have cursed them and made hard their hearts. They change words from their context and forget a part of that whereof they were admonished. Thou wilt not cease to discover treachery from all save a few of them. But bear with them and pardon them. Lo! Allah loveth the kindly.
15. And with those who say: "Lo! we are Christians," We made a covenant, but they forgot a part of that whereof they were admonished. Therefor We have stirred up enmity and hatred among them till the Day of Resurrection, when Allah will inform them of their handiwork.
16. O People of the Scripture! Now hath Our messenger come unto you, expounding unto you much of that which ye used to hide in the Scripture, and forgiving much.
17. Now hath come unto you light from Allah and plain Scripture,
18. Whereby Allah guideth him who seeketh His good pleasure unto paths of peace. He bringeth them out of darkness unto light by His decree, and guideth them unto a straight path.
19. They indeed have disbelieved who say: Lo! Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary. Say: Who then can do aught against Allah, if He had willed to destroy the Messiah son of Mary, and his mother and everyone on earth? Allah's is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them. He createth what He will. And Allah is Able to do all things.
20. The Jews and Christians say: We are sons of Allah and His loved ones. Say: Why then doth He chastise you for your sins? Nay, ye are but mortals of His creating. He forgiveth whom He will, and chastiseth whom He will. Allah's is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, and unto Him is the journeying.

[jennifer_bloom]

I think you could reinterpret religious verses to reposition the interpreted logic of the verse. Like the Jewish talmud has verses comparing non Jews to animals, but their definition of a non Jew could be somebody who worships idols like money and power and not somebody who does not keep Kosher or Shabbat. The verse on Christians and Jews in the Quran might involve those who idolize human might and those who idolize socialized virtue, rather than those who believe in Jesus or those who follow the teachings of Moses.

[Asker]

But when God says that the Jews and Christians think they are children of God and admonished them for that by saying they are mortals doesn't it clear up the thinking that the other two shouldn't think of themselves as something special?

[SquareWave]

Judaism is fiction, Christianity and Islam are fan fiction. Islam is especially late to the party, trying to re-write/reboot Jewish and Christian stories 600 years later.

If you want to know what the Bible/Torah actually says, you look at the oldest manuscripts that are close as possible to the original source, not manuscripts written centuries later. By that time, it's a massive case of Chinese whispers.

[Asker]

Yeah but I am less interested in history and more interested in the content

[strateguy632]

sounds like politicians double talk with no truth.