and that if this God exists that he is the Creator of the uinverse and everything in it i.e. essentially the Muslim God. If you think you can make some sort of sense out of sun or elephant worship please go ahead. As a Muslim I beleive that all monotheists can be considered 'Muslims' i.e. submitters to God's will I beleive we all posess the logic and reason to know that there is only one God
I am sorry, but I dont. Please explain why God cannot be infnite, the universe itself, a part of a family with a pecking order, or even a mystical elephant? You see it sounds normal to you, as you have been conditioned to see it that way. In the same way an atheist born to atheist parents, struggles to believe in your invisible 'sky' god. In the same way Hindus cant see why you would mutilate a perfectly sound body with circumcision, condone wife hitting or cover women.
Hindu sciptures, just like you do with Muslim scriptures are subject to interpretation. In the same way that you reject claims of paedophilie against your prophet, despite it being written in black in white and only those sahih hadith rejecting heretics as seen by most other followers. In the same way some hindus believe that they are all manifestations of the same monotheistic God as yours. Or some Christians dont believe in the trinity.
In any case surely cannot see 'mistaken identity' as a crime punishable by eternal torture. A method of propogation seems to be more likely than God testing his creature reliably in this illogical & narcisistic fashion
I have faith that Muhammad, Moses, and Jesus were not liars and they taught us a great deal of good.
I do too, but then again so did Gandhi and Mother Teresa.
Theres no proof that all prophets were sent to the middle east. As Muslims we beleive that God has been sending prophets and messengers ever since Adam - some put the figure over a hundered thousand. Where exactly they were sent no-one knows.
Is faith good enough ? is that what Islam has boiled down to, you are judged by how uncritical a thinker you are and you ability to believe in an unproven supernatural creator. You dispute scientiic theories surrounded by testing & restesting hypotheses, yet you are prepared to standby a book that was written 1400 years ago amongest huge controversy and based on the words of a single individual, Mohammed
. Why is Islam predominantly restricted to within a radius of Mecca, because the arabian imperialist commanders were limited in their firepower, or because Allah deemed them more worthy?
In case you make an appeal to numbers, please take a look at memes & memetic theory (its a biased article but worth taking a look at
http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2007/10/terrifying-brilliance-of-islamic.html) , and how they spread . Islam is still just slice on the the pie chart of world beliefs, and you cling onto without, as you agreed, without any evidence? Couldnt the least God could have done and provided some evidence? I would be the first to jump on board in that case. I appear to be punished for being cynical, when I have in fact studied the Quran and its history more than your average muslim!
I will point out once again that the only ingredient that God tells us he used to make all living beings was water giving this particular ingredient special importnace.
I dont understand this point, I thought I had already shown you this
"we are created from earth (11:61), sometimes from dry clay (15:26,28,33, 17:61, 32:7), sometimes from nothing or not from nothing (52:35), sometimes from wet earth (23:12), or from mire (38:71), sometimes from water (25:54, 21:30, 24:45), sometimes from dust (3:59, 30:20, 35:11)
Also can you explain how we metabolised from water and why you choose this method over & above the rest of Allah ingredients? Is it because this oen makes most sense to you using current science?
In any case as a muslim, none of these would have made sense to me. The omnipotent God that could create the universe, would not need his own ingredients to make something
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