Why did you assume that the problem is my understanding?
I couldn't make a comment or ask a question if I didn't understand what was being said. Better yet, if I didn't understand, I would have simply said, "Hey, I don't understand this. Can you explain it?"
I DO IN FACT understand what the passages are saying and I am <b>questioning the 1) reasoning, 2) support behind and 3) validity</b> of those passages.
Again I ask... What is <b>UP</b> with the superiority complex around here? Was there really no other possible explanation (in your mind) for my questions OTHER THAN that I must not have understood???
To me, the Quran, at least in the English translations, are written at almost a 3rd-grade reading level; VERY simple/simplistic. It is NOT that hard to read it (except for the vague passages that even Muslims themselve have a hard time explaining or understanding).