03-05-2007, 02:42 PM
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Quote:I haven't forgotten you :) Sorry about the delay.
Well it was my turn this time to be late in answering. :conf06:
Quote:Jesus Christ is the Son of God Incarnate. It's inappropriate to call Him "partner". Please check out my thread under Discussion of Beliefs for the theology behind the Most Holy Trinity & Incarnation. These truths are extremely hard for Muslims to accept. You're not alone.
From your point of view it may be incorrect when referring to Jesus pbuh as partner, but to me as a Muslimah it surely looks like that. Jesus pbuh is said to pray to the One that brought him to life and says he cannot do anything without his Creators permission. In Matthews? And here it ends up.
Quote:I'm not sure about being condemned to hell for mistreating a cat, but I guess only Allah (SWT) can judge us.
What we can learn from this knowledge is to treat humans and animals respectfully, to do our best and the Judgement will be His.
Quote:Because like you mentioned above, we have reason. Faith can never contradict reason. I agree about the lesson in the Garden. I'm still dumbfounded as to why Adam & Eve remained on earth & we're born in the same state as them but in a different realm.
To be tested. In Genesis we can read that Earth is a punishment so to speak, like due to Eve's obediance so that all women will suffer during childbirth. In Islam There is no such thing as childbirth would be a punishment for what our great great.....mother did. The 'idea' is truly strange to me.
So we are here to be tested and it is up to us what our goal way and what ways we take on it. We have been given the free will, it is up to us what we do with it.
Quote:We can't be tested in the Beatific Vision according to Christianity. Paradise is perfection... free from evil.
Sorry I don't know what 'Beatific Vision' is.
Yes Paradise is only good. So of course we have to EARN to go there inshaAllah. Do you think it would be for free?
Quote:But logically, the one thing God won't/can't do is contradict Himself. If He's All-Good... then He won't/can't be bad.
I have not said He is bad, have you? Where do this idea come from that HE is bad?
Quote:No jinns in Christianity, by the way.
So you do not believe in the unseen creations? Do you believe that the only things created are the things that your eyes can see?
Thanks for your kind words.