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Patty wrote:   I have noticed (while not responding, as it's not my place here) that there is also great dissention among various tribes/sects of good Muslims.)  So it's not only Christians who bat around the possibilities of what is meant in holy documents, such as the Qu'ran and the Bible.

Greetings Patty.

I would like to point out that the sectarian differences amongst Muslims is a very different "animal", than the theological differences that plagued Christians, especially in the first 4 centuries.

1) For Christians, the differences were about the very basic ideas that would make up the tenents of belief concerning Jesus. This would be the same as Muslims splitting into groups and fighting over the nature of Proohet Muhammad (saw), or his mission, or the nature of God, or the relationship between the prophet (saw) and God.

2) For Christians, the differences were about such fundemental topics, that the diverse ideologies are an evidence that the church doctors did more speculating about Jesus than conjuring facts. For Muslims, even when you look at the rift between Shias and Sunnis, you will find that the initial rift was not so cannonized, and the two sides held major concepts about God and prophet Muhammad (saw) to be the same. As time passed, the Shias did pick up some theolgical differences and methods for deriving religous law, but they still hold that there are five pillars, which sunnis hold to. So on a fundemental level, they do agree. 

Take care Patty!