Comments on K. Armstrong's book called Spiral Staircase

[Grand Sen~or]

Karen is a courageous person to persue the truth to the end. However
she is not well equipped to express the truth, she demonstrates that
she is close to it. I am writing this comment to help her readers and
herself on one of the most gripping statement that she and many others
keep coming back as rock bottom: "God doesn't exist / God is nothing".
I don't understand why we should keep idling on those expressions
while the God Himself already revealed in His Scripture called the
Qur'an that He created everything with a measure and term such that we
can meaningfully say for a thing exists/non-exists. He also revealed
that "say la ilahe illa-al-ilah..." which literally means "say 'not
god except the God'" He doesn't say "say there is no god except the
God" there is no "there is" here in the Arabic sentence, and nowhere
in the Qur'an the God says "He exists". It is meaningless to assert
"the God exists" if He was a thing then yes we would be able to say
that, but then this would mean the God who created everything had
created Himself as well which is outside of the limit of the usage of
the concept "create" in the same Scripture, therefore it would be
meaningless. Yes as Karen concluded "the God is not a thing" for He is
the Creator of all things with a measure and term. You wouldn't
believe in a God with measure and term would you? You wouldn't qualify
such a thing as god, would you? For anything introduced to you as a
thing you would not recognize as god, you would reject it as "not god
=la ilah". And as "the God exists" is meaningless, its negation "The
God doesn't exist" becomes equally meaningless. We simply have to give
up using "exist" in relation to the God. But the Qur'an asserts that
the God is real.