Lisa
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It was your quote I was responding to...maybe ignore me?If you don't have anything productive to say to me, I'd rather you leave me alone please.
Thanks
It was your quote I was responding to...maybe ignore me?If you don't have anything productive to say to me, I'd rather you leave me alone please.
Thanks
While I really like some of Muslim practices, it simply doesn't seem very...effective. You pray 5 times a day because that is what your religion requires, while spiritually it may still have some benefits it's not the same as praying because you want to. There is little sincerity in habits, as a kid I saw plenty of that in Catholics. Repeating thousand times same prayers day in day out... As bible tells it we arent heard because of many words...Oh Vytas, I have to really disagree with the term justice. As stated on other threads, Christians believe once they're saved, they can't lose their salvation. So in a sense, if one does sin whilst still being a Christian and believing in jesus, they can't be held accountable for their actions. They will still go to heaven. To me, that's not justice as the repercussions of those sins aren't addressed by God. So those harmed by your actions are left hanging...
If I decide to commit adultry on the sly, get pregnant and convince my husband the baby is his...and I take that lie to the grave, how is that fair on the child and my husband? God can see how unfair that is and I just get off Scot-free because I believed that jesus was my lord and saviour?? I don't see how a just God would allow a sinful person to sail through to paradise.
Yes we are all sinful and fall short of perfection but there are ways we can reduce sin and keep away for temptation. If you busy yourself and exhaust yourself in the way of God, you won't have as much as a temptation to sin. By praying 5 times a day, doing our pillars and keeping good company, we build our spirituality and you don't yearn for this world. Being constantly conscious of God is difficult and it takes time to build that level of spirituality but it is possible...
Sorry, what happened a long time ago for you to be Christian?
I'm not trying to sell Islam to you, my aim is just to understand what Christianity truly is since there are a bloody billion versions of it!
In Islam heaven and hell are both described in detail. We are told about what happens on judgement day, the minor and major signs which will occur prior to it and how every soul shall be judged by God on the day of resurrection. Think of a scale, the more you strived in this life the likelihood of you going to heaven.
Salvation isn't guaranteed and this is why muslims devote all aspects of their life to God (well, try to). For us, everything is a good deed or a form of worship. Giving charity, helping your neighbour even picking litter up from the street lol. So our path has been made easy because we understand that God is the ultimate judge and nobody can take our sins and be a sacrifice.
This of course differs a lot to your faith and I wish I had a little more time to break it down but that's the gist of it in islam.
You can't get bored in heaven lol it's a state of infinite joy and peace.
This is something that separates religions that are practice and discipline based versus ones that are more about only promoting an idea. Devotion is incredibly important to us, I find it strange but not unsurprising to find a very strict downplaying or rejection of devotion, discipline and holistic spirituality within Christianity in comparison to religions like Islam, Judaism and even one's like Hinduism.While I really like some of Muslim practices, it simply doesn't seem very...effective. You pray 5 times a day because that is what your religion requires, while spiritually it may still have some benefits it's not the same as praying because you want to. There is little sincerity in habits, as a kid I saw plenty of that in Catholics. Repeating thousand times same prayers day in day out... As bible tells it we arent heard because of many words...
Salvation through the Unity of God is the very foundational centerpiece of our religion, nothing is more important to us.I'm long enough here to know muslims dont understand how salvation work for us. We are told we will be acounted for every iddle word we ever spoken. Believing in Jesus doesn't remove our accountability but rather adds to it, to whomsoever much is given, of him much shall.be required, with understanding comes responsibility...Your example, that would not fly, repentance is as much necessary as faith. And if a person lives all his life in sin what faith is that, there was no faith to begin with. Thing is you can't repent and proceed to do exactly that what you just repented about. That's like mocking God. Our "free pass" is earned, but earned because we want to, out of free will, out of love. When we first believe we are saved from eternal death, we get an entry to the kingdom of God, because we believed, now we have to live a life like we believe, God knows our hearts, and when you believe you don't live in sin...
Well yes, Islam is fundamentally about Unity, it is the core value that starts from God's Unity and proliferates down to mankind's Unity (aka, racism is bad). For a true Muslim, the transcendental truth of the faith is more important than any in-house disagreements, this is a principle that is quite serious for us. The concept of Ummah indeed does not allow for the over-valuing of division, as the path to God is not found through division (and I mean this statement on many levels, not just the social).Your understanding of christianity is typical for a muslim. About many versions. While islam is one body, one unit, Christians are more like body parts of one body, borrowed example from Paul. (cor12-27). You don't know which version is true ? I don't even know denominations of most Christians in here, yet I know that they are Christians. That's good enough, we can research, discuss and argue about our little differences, getting more understanding in the process.
And that's all good and well. I just answered the question you had about the bible not recognising how plants work.Bible is not my source for astronomy though.
No problem. It has to be a personal thing because there are no direct lengthy descriptions beyond what I shared. Pretending as though we definitely have the answers would be falsifying scripture.Thanks for the response.
It seems heaven is a personal experience for each Christian as both you and Vytas said 'I can't speak for all Christians'
I know you love jesus but being with him, what does that entail? Do you just sit there? I mean eternity is a longg time so I'm just thinking would life just be spent existing in a stress free place? Doing what...
Also there is an emphasis on death...why is death so important to Christians?
For me, everything dies. Plants, people and animals all die. So why does death solve everything for you guys? Why is the death of the body important when it's just a cover/casing for the spirit which is who we are...
I do not believe that the God Complex poster is new, you have seen them before, eventually it will become very obvious to all whom it is by their debate style, arrogance, demeaning remarks and insistence of winning arguments based on their own tactic of destroying their own strawmen.We do not pretend to know it all, like some new posters with obvious God complex, we are satisfied with what we are promised.
Yeah that's one of a kind attitude...I thought about it few times, but dismissed it...nah can't be, now when you say it like that, seems much more realistic...I do not believe that the God Complex poster is new, you have seen them before, eventually it will become very obvious to all whom it is by their debate style, arrogance, demeaning remarks and insistence of winning arguments based on their own tactic of destroying their own strawmen.
They have tried to cover themselves somewhat so far but it is simply a matter of time before it will be apparent whom you are dealing with...
I did wonder...Sometimes contributors Islamic methods identify....I do not believe that the God Complex poster is new, you have seen them before, eventually it will become very obvious to all whom it is by their debate style, arrogance, demeaning remarks and insistence of winning arguments based on their own tactic of destroying their own strawmen.
They have tried to cover themselves somewhat so far but it is simply a matter of time before it will be apparent whom you are dealing with...
When I mentioned Bible not understanding how plants work, i meant the scientific aspect specifically. The earth couldn't have come before the sun and even if it somehow did, "life" as we know it especially plants are not older than the sun either unless proven otherwise.And that's all good and well. I just answered the question you had about the bible not recognising how plants work.
Interestingly, the only way it would work is with a literal interpretation...When I mentioned Bible not understanding how plants work, i meant the scientific aspect specifically. The earth couldn't have come before the sun and even if it somehow did, "life" as we know it especially plants are not older than the sun either unless proven otherwise.
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I mean there's no way to really "prove" something like that or measure the age of the sun or Earth with 100% accuracy right?When I mentioned Bible not understanding how plants work, i meant the scientific aspect specifically. The earth couldn't have come before the sun and even if it somehow did, "life" as we know it especially plants are not older than the sun either unless proven otherwise.
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A 100% accuracy is not necessary, an estimate is. We can tell the moon is younger than the earth. A natural satellite is almost always younger than its planet. Similarly the planets are younger than their suns, with the rare rare exceptions of a planet entering into a different planetary system.I mean there's no way to really "prove" something like that or measure the age of the sun or Earth with 100% accuracy right?
What do you mean?Interestingly, the only way it would work is with a literal interpretation...
Science is predicated upon observation and experimentation in the present. In terms of age, we can neither observe the past nor experiment on the past because it is gone. About the best we can do scientifically, is make some assumptions about the initial state of the system whose age we want to know, and some assumptions about the rate of change of that system, and make an estimate based on our observations of the current state. Since the different assumptions involve past events (supernatural creation vs natural origin, uniformitarianism vs. catastrophism) they cannot be directly tested by scientific means since the past cannot be experimented upon or observed. I'm not saying I discard the secular science, just saying that I leave room for alternatives.A 100% accuracy is not necessary, an estimate is. We can tell the moon is younger than the earth. A natural satellite is almost always younger than its planet. Similarly the planets are younger than their suns, with the rare rare exceptions of a planet entering into a different planetary system.
Why not? Scientifically, the gravitational forces of the sun and moon have nothing to do with the rotation rate of earth. The rotation rate is due to the conservation of angular momentum. It cannot be changed without applying an enormous external torque. And there is absolutely no biblical or scientific support for such a torque. This is the rotational equivalent of Newton’s first law. So the sun and moon are not necessary to cause the earth to rotate. It would have rotated perfectly well before the creation of the sun and moon. And I did put in my initial reply that the Earth may have already been set on its rotation by Day 2.The sun couldn't have been made prior to earth, it makes no sense. Even if you were to tell me they were made at the same time, i'd say "okay" but the earth before the sun? Eh..
Not to mention that the atmosphere on earth wouldn't have existed that earlier and one of the ways the earth's atmosphere is maintained is through its rotation. If earth wasn't rotating, it wouldn't have an atmosphere and thus no life.
I don't think it is.Like I said, a holy book shouldn't be wrong about something like that.
It took me a few attempts to absorb The implications of Dr Russell Humphries alternative cosmology, but it is freely available to assess on YouTube and shows development and refinements from his early “big picture” ideas to more developed and refined concept.The transmission of light to earth or our eyes is delayed, not earlier. Gravity doesn't affect that, a planet's gravitational pull is not strong enough to affect time-space.
The Biblical thing would make sense if the transmission of light that we received was quick? or earlier, whatever is the word, instead of delayed. Unfortunately, its delayed by a massive amount.
Also to believe in the existence of time-space as an actual thing like that, that can get affected, you would first need to atleast believe in or understand Big bang theory since quantum physics is heavily based around it. But genesis entirely goes against the big bang.
Except, the sun being older than the earth is almost factual because the two have to have been one at a certain stage. There can be alternatives but some things don't change. Earth can not be flat, the moon can not be a hologram and earth can not be older than the sun.Science is predicated upon observation and experimentation in the present. In terms of age, we can neither observe the past nor experiment on the past because it is gone. About the best we can do scientifically, is make some assumptions about the initial state of the system whose age we want to know, and some assumptions about the rate of change of that system, and make an estimate based on our observations of the current state. Since the different assumptions involve past events (supernatural creation vs natural origin, uniformitarianism vs. catastrophism) they cannot be directly tested by scientific means since the past cannot be experimented upon or observed. I'm not saying I discard the secular science, just saying that I leave room for alternatives.
This would be accurate if we were talking about stopping the rotation but we aren't talking about stopping it, we are talking about its beginning.Why not? Scientifically, the gravitational forces of the sun and moon have nothing to do with the rotation rate of earth. The rotation rate is due to the conservation of angular momentum. It cannot be changed without applying an enormous external torque. And there is absolutely no biblical or scientific support for such a torque. This is the rotational equivalent of Newton’s first law. So the sun and moon are not necessary to cause the earth to rotate. It would have rotated perfectly well before the creation of the sun and moon. And I did put in my initial reply that the Earth may have already been set on its rotation by Day 2.
Are you sure? Especially when you know Plants came first and then came the sun when the sun is clearly older than the lifeless earth. An earth that finally had the conditions to support life came even later.I don't think it is.
Hypothesis are not theories, a scientific theory is not a hypothesis. The man keeps giving hypothesis but can't back them up, that is, if anything, just sad.The implications of Dr Russell Humphries alternative cosmology