03-30-2006, 05:59 PM
Quote:Yes I think this is the position by all people that are not Christians, that He did not send His son to earth. As a Muslim/ah this phrase 'to have eternal life' sounds a bit strange, since according to Islam, the eternal afterlife has always been taught by His messengers and prophets. It is not a new concept with the event of Christianity. But what has been taught on the other hand is where that eternal life will be spent, in Paradise/Heaven or in Hell.
<b>The phrase 'to have eternal life' may sound strange, if you have never heard it before, but it means being in Heaven with our Lord. We are not promised 72 virgins, but I believe we will have everything we want or need, and I suspect that having 72 wives might turn out to be Hell.</b>
Quote:True, Allah SWT does not have to ask the permission of anyone, that is His 'privilage' one could say. But one logical question is, when knowing the ability of Him and that He is Forgiving and Merciful, and He has always been able to forgive people in earlier generations without demading a human sacrifice in order to be able to forgive, why did His capacity to Forgive and be Merciful suddenly disappear or got weak when Christianity entered the stage?
<b>His capacity to forgive never disappeared or got weak. But I am not aware of any faith which guarantees that everything will be forgiven, regardless of how bad it may be. In your own faith, for example, 4.93 says "If a man kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, to abide therein (For ever): And the wrath and the curse of Allah are upon him, and a dreadful penalty is prepared for him." In other words He guarantees that some things will not be forgiven.</b>
I do sometimes wonder about the clerics that encourage young people to blow themselves up, killing innocents, including other Muslims, and promising them 72 virgins in the afterlife (unless as I speculated above, having 72 wives really would be Hell.
Some Christians hold that acceptance of Christ as their personal savious is the only way to get in Heaven, but I do not see anything that indicates that other compacts have been cancelled, therefore I expect to see some Jews in Heaven that have followed the compact He established with the Jewish People, and have complied with what He told Moses. And I expect to see some Muslims there, that have truly followed the 5 Pillars.
I regret that your fellow Muslims will kill you if you come to know Jesus Christ as your personal saviour, because it not only would guarantee you a place in Heaven with Him, but he would be with you the rest of the time you are on Earth.