The New Testament consigns "unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's"; it demands that women be obedient to their husbands; it accepts faith healing, exorcisms, and miracles; it exalts obedience over independence, fear and trembling over courage, and piety over self-determination.
The Qur'an does not tolerate dissent, freedom of conscience, or the right to unbelief. It denies the rights of women. It exhorts jihad, holy war against infidels. It demands utter submission to the Word of God as revealed by Muhammad. It rejects the separation of mosque and state, thus installing the law of sharia and the theocracy of imams and mullahs.
True believers have in the past often found little room for human autonomy, individual freedom, or self-reliance. They have emphasized submission to the word of God instead of self-determination, faith over reason, and credulity over doubt.
2006-09-23 03:45:07 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please read my words carefully:
If you see footmark in the sand, you'll say that someone passed from here...
If you see a piece of dog sh*t on the ground, you'll say that a dog passed from here...
So what about the enormous universe, the sky, stars, planets, earth and all the beauty in it, doesn't it lead to that someone made it?!!!
Some people say that everything is created by itself after the big-bang... I won't ask you about what caused the big-bang, but I'll ask you a simple question:
If you take all the letters of the alphabet, multiples of them, and you threw them randomly on the floor. Do you expect (by a chance of one in infinity) to get a poem like shakespear's??!!
Can't you see how organized our universe is, the planets, the eco-system on earth, look even in your own body... Can you control your heart-beat? Can you control your breath while you're sleeping? Who stopped your eye-lashes from growing after reaching a certain length? Who told the baby turtles to move towards the sea and not to the earth after they come out of their eggs? Who taught the bird how to make nests?
My friend, think with your heart and brain. If you're still lost, think about the following:
Do you know how to play safe?
Your point:
If there's no God and you do all what you want in life, then nothing will happen to you after life. But if there was God and you were mistaken, then you'll blame yourself FOREVER...
Believer's point:
If there's God and I followed His commands in life, then I'll be in Heaven after life FOREVER. But if there was no God and we're mistaken, then nothing bad will happen to us after life...
Now you know how to play-safe, in case you're not convinced?
2006-09-24 00:11:01 · answer #1 · answered by toon 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thomas Alva Eddison,
I am not sure what you arre getting at. It would seem that you were tearing down both religions and drawing comparison as to what they are. I can tell you that you don't quite have it right, so I am thinking that you are a nonbeliever when it comes to Christianity. What you do believe in, I don't know.
On the Christian side of your opening question:
"Will those who believe in God actually achieve immortality of the soul and eternal salvation as promised?"
The soul is already immortal, Mr. Eddison. At least in Christianity it is. So it is achieved when it is created. Etenal salvation is achieved, I think you already know how. So you didn't get that wrong.
In you statement:
"it demands that women be obedient to their husbands;"
I must make it clear, that the violation of this and other things that you brought up are not a basis for torture, beatings, excommunication (in most cases that I know), or other religious law. So I would make that distinction with you as to the nature of the 'punishment' of the act. It's not a religion that horizontally pursues punishment, though in the past it was construed that way, it is a religion that promotes communion with God, as in the relationship thereof.
The "Laws" that you seem to be referring to are actually suggestions and directions; How close can you be to God if you are fighting everything in your life including your marriage, your taxes, etc? Being content dispite that which is in your life is better. I think that's what Jesus and Paul was saying. That's why Paul thought it was better NOT to marry. You can do more for God that way, but marry if you are burning with passion --what good are you in your service to God if you are sexually passionate without recourse?
Does it make more sense when I put it that way?
As far as "it exalts obedience over independence,"
there is some truth to that. A Christian is a Christian because he chooses God's ways over his own ways, and that Jesus Christ provided the way to God. Here is a saying for you to ponder,
"Dependence upon God, makes us independent of others."
I truly believe that. Just don't go to the exponential extreme and you might see the truth in it.
About; "fear and trembling over courage"
I believe that you are getting that out of the New Testament. Does that matter? I don't know. But you are omitting a crucial part of the sentence.
"Work out your own soteria with phobos en traumos." It's in the context of salvation. The fear and trembling I am not a stranger to. It comes when you know how incapable of pleasing God by your own righteousness. Your own ability to live a clean life. It's not the way Christians are being brought up now.
I could go on. Just thought I'd give you a what's up.
2006-09-23 11:15:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if salvation is following a bunch of man made laws, count me out
if I, being deluded and religious and brainwashed, tell others they are lost, do I not need salvation myself?
freedom is not subjecting yourself to authoritarian dogmas and people
a great study..."the Guru Papers" essays on authoritarianism
I loved the chapter on "the Divided Self" how people (when 'saved') quite possibly create a schism in the mind and develope an alter ego and a 'new me' vs the 'old me' and become skitzo
2006-09-23 10:53:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, of course not, but the gullible keep believing!
2006-09-23 10:47:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You better have Eternal Divine Life (Jesus) in you befor you kick-out of the Earth for good.
2006-09-23 10:46:40 · answer #5 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Ask Jesus into your heart and you will be reborn. Salvation is yours.
2006-09-23 10:50:35 · answer #6 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ you will receive eternal salvation
2006-09-23 10:49:19 · answer #7 · answered by bulldog 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are better religions out there. =D
2006-09-23 10:52:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How the hell do you expect to know this?
2006-09-23 10:48:05 · answer #9 · answered by Dr. Sabetudo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we'll see
2006-09-23 10:53:28 · answer #10 · answered by adi dinca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋