08-03-2004, 01:18 PM
Hi and salaam, Peace in Ireland
Since you invited us to raise questions I will also take the opportunity to do so.
You wrote in your last comment -
- (I'm assuming you mean Catholicism since most other branches of Christianity don't use the holy trinity.) -
I have a friend that is a Anglican priest, and HE says that almost all different branches within Christianity has one thing in common and that is, among some other doctrines, also the doctrine of trinity.
Word against word - any comment to this?
Another thing - I have never figured out WHY God, that also you say can do anything, could not forgive the first sin that man and woman ever made, in the Garden? The Islamic teaching is, that Allah, SWT, gave the first human beings the knowledge of HOW to repent when making a sin and HOW to ask for His Forgiveness. And since He CAN do anything, He is also capable to offer forgiveness.
This is something that cannot be done, as I understand it from the view of Christianity, so another human being had to be sacrified instead. THEN forgiveness can be done. Then sin can be forgiven.
To ME that doesnt make any sense. It gives a picture of a God that is not able or capable of His own to do things (astaghfirullah).
Salaam