Hi there, firstly i would like to point out that i am not trying to say that i have the answers or that my understanding is the only correct understanding. All im trying to do is pass on infomation which i have found during my my search, which i have found very facinating. All my aim is that i would like to share what i have found. Some may find it facinating or some may find nothing there. Its down to each person.

The verses which i have quoted are not my words these are exactly what is written in the quran. Your explanation may be correct or it may not be,
and i may be wrong. But at least we are trying to gain a better understanding by exchaning info, you never know when or where you will gain more insights, its all a learning curve!

Your quote where you say I BELIEVE IT CHOSE TO IMPART SMALL PORTIONS OF CONCIOUSNESS INTO BEINGS SUCH AS OURSELVES made me think it sort of does make sense, in the quran it also says some thing similar: AND WE BREATHED SOME THING OF OUR SPIRIT INTO EVERY INDIVIDUAL.
The quran explains that it is this spirit which is deep within us is a trust given to us and we shall be brought back to where we came. This trust is the biggest gift which we can have. But unfotunately most people ignore what is deep within them. when ignoring it for so long we become lost.
the main theme in the quran is that we should look and contemplate on our world and see the signs and also to look within, all this will point to a purposeful design. all the quran does is it tries to awaken that which is within man kind, and it also teaches never to follow blindly but to use our own minds to come to answers. T he answer is always within, the quran in my opinion is a tool for this aswell as a guidance.

I disagree with your opinion that religions cause wars, wars occur when one group of people tries to do one over the other. either to dominate for the good one group over another or greed or when one group competes in a common goal, divisions cause wars not religions.
the modern conflicts today lets take the isreali palistinian conflict is not because of judaism V islam but the conflict is over land. jewish people have lived in that area together with islam formore than 1300 yrs. they lived together peace fully side by side SHARING the same land, so much so that when the european crusades attacked this area the jews and CHRISTIONSof that area fought together with the muslims to repel the invaders! in the middle east you will stil find jews and christians living in muslim countries and they have been there for genarations. islam governed that area for more than 1300yrs and had the power to covert ththem had they wished but they never because in the quran it states there is no compulsion in beleifs, it is a prsonel choice.
in india muslims ruled for many hundreds of years and had the power to convert every one but they did not you will find that in india there are still many other religions. today islam is the fastest growing religion on earth i can not see people forcing these new converts can you?
in fact islam was able to unite the arabs and the africans and the asians and chinese and europeans all under one roof without borders.
i am not saying muslims have never done wrong, because ther is bad every where. my point is that i was not trying to force any thing on any one it was just passing on info.

i follow the quran not because some one told me to but i decided to my self. the quran is 1400 yrs old it is still in its original form, ther are no versions of it you can go from america to chinafor sure they are exactly letter ror letter exactly the same. when i see that the quran talks about scientific facts which have only been discoverd and it explains life and gives it purpose to it and it discusses things which could never have been known 1400yrs ago.
it talks about biology, chemistry, psychology, physics, astronomy, meta physics, economy, society, laws, and it talks about all this and points to such facts which we have only discoverd recently which could not have been known back then.e.g the quran says in the eyes of god man and woman are equal and if you count the amount of time it mentions the word man and woman it is exactly 23 times each, this cant be coincidance . and why 23 times? does not it take 23 chromosomes from each to make a human 23 from father 23 from mother=baby 46! there are many more to list. the whole quran is a couple of hundred pages long the subjects are vast and all this is conveyed in a rytham and rhyme.
the entire quran uses only 4 letters to make the entire rhyme throughout the quran. the ONE challenges man kind that in the quran:
" if you are in doubt about this revelation then produce a chapter like it"

did i forget to mention that the person this revalation came to, his name was muhamed (pbuh) he was a uneducated person who could not read or write. it has been 1400 years and still the challenge has not been met as time goes by more of its secrets become apparent.
"QURAN: AND WE HAVE PROTECTED THIS BOOK FROM CORRUPTION..."
1400 yrs old and still in its original form. no one has even been able to match the litarcy deployed in the quran. even just listening to its recitation makes you think how could aman write some thing like this. listening to it takes one in to a meditative state.

it is for these reasons i believe that this book must truly be a divine book
it is said in the quran that there have been many books sent before and all thes were from the same source and there have been many teachers (messengers) sent previously so i beleve in that the same source sent jesus, moses may be bhudda, and may be many others all taught the one message.

how can one explain that if it is not truly divine then from where did this quran originate