03-19-2006, 11:57 PM
Quote:Peace.....
The idea that if a child dies without being baptized it goes to hell is a Catholic teaching, not a christian one. The Bible teaches that children are not held accountable because they have not learned good from evil. I have read that muslims are very careful not to forbid what Allah has not forbidden, Christians are the same. <b>No where in the Bible does it state abortion is wrong
even if the mother's life is threatened. However you have some people in positions of authority, (the Pope for the catholics for instance) who come up with rulings that are based on their own opinions and not on any type of Biblical scholarship.</b>
I hope I'm not too far off topic but just wanted to clarify teachings that come from the catholic church as opposed to those that are Biblically based.
Shamms
That's sick!
Here's what Allah (may He be glorified and exalted) has ordered. And it's been the same since Adam's time;
17.31
<b>You shall not kill your children
</b> for fear of want, for it is We Who provide sustenance for them as well as for you; surely killing them is a great blunder.
6.137
<b>Their shoraka' have induced many mushrikin to kill their own children
</b> in order to ruin them and confuse them in their religion. If Allah wanted, they would not have done so. Therefore, leave them alone with their false inventions.
6.140
<b>Actual losers are those who kill their own children
</b> foolishly without knowledge and forbid food which Allah has provided them, falsely ascribing prohibitions to Allah. Certainly they have gone astray and are not at all rightly guided.
6.151
O Muhammad, say: "Come, I will recite what your Rabb has forbidden to you
: not to commit shirk with Him, to be kind to your parents,
<b>not to kill your children
</b> making the excuse of inability to support them - We provide sustenance for you and for them - not to commit shameful deeds whether open or secret, not to kill any soul forbidden by Allah except for the requirements of justice. These are the things which He enjoined you so that you may learn wisdom.
60.12 O Prophet! When the believing women come to you to take the oath of allegiance , take their pledge: that they will not commit shirk with Allah, that they will not steal, that they will not commit adultery,
<b>that they will not kill their children
</b>, that they will not give any cause for scandal which they may invent between either their hands or legs (a woman accusing another woman of having an illicit relationship with a man and spreads such stories - or - a woman carrying an illegitimate child and makes her husband believe that it is his), and that they will not disobey you in any just matter, then accept their allegiance and pray to Allah for the forgiveness. Surely Allah is Oft-Forgiving, most Merciful.
<b>33.62 ...and you will never find any change in the Way of Allah.
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