# Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus  ## Metadata - Author: [[Nabeel Qureshi]] - Full Title: Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus - Category: #books ## Highlights - When authority is derived from position rather than reason, the act of questioning leadership is dangerous because it has the potential to upset the system. Dissension is reprimanded, and obedience is rewarded. Correct and incorrect courses of action are assessed socially, not individually. A person’s virtue is thus determined by how well he meets social expectations, not by an individual determination of right and wrong. ([Location 1725](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BB54FS5&location=1725)) - positional authority yields a society that determines right and wrong based on honor and shame. ([Location 1730](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BB54FS5&location=1730)) - Rational authority creates a society that determines right and wrong based on innocence and guilt. ([Location 1734](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BB54FS5&location=1734)) - “The words do matter, but they matter because they constitute a message. The message is paramount. That’s why the Bible can be translated. If the inspiration were tied to words themselves as opposed to their message, then we could never translate the Bible, and if we could never translate it, how could it be a book for all people?” ([Location 2111](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BB54FS5&location=2111)) - Muslim apologists do not limit themselves to the Quran’s own defense of its inspiration. The four other arguments they most commonly appeal to are these: fulfilled prophecies, mathematical patterns, scientific truths, and textual preservation. ([Location 3711](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BB54FS5&location=3711)) - Westerners in the evidential mindset often need to be reminded to be lovers of truth (2 Thess. 2:10) who are willing to rigorously apply reason and the study of evidence, and then follow them wherever they lead. ([Location 5185](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BB54FS5&location=5185)) - Easterners who embrace an authoritarian mindset need to be reminded that religious authorities are not all created equal; some are worth following, and some are not. ([Location 5191](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BB54FS5&location=5191)) - Jesus isn’t a character sent by the Creator to tell us to straighten up and fly right; Jesus is the Creator who walked among us in humility to experience our fragility and to rescue us from our hopeless human condition. ([Location 5429](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BB54FS5&location=5429))