Pyrmon said:
Magmorph said:
Would God send someone who never heard of a deity to hell for not following him? If he does then he is unjust. If he doesn't then why would you tell me about him?
I'm not sure I understand correctly the meaning of your last sentence. Could you rephrase?
But, yes, a person who lived a good life but never heard of Islam would theoretically go to heaven.
A person who had never heard of Islam would have no idea what that God considers to be a good life. Why would you tell someone about God if they would go to hell for not believing?
Because, I believe that there are different kinds of heaven. Low Heaven and High Heaven. The case you describe would not necessarily got to High Heaven, so telling them about God may get them the chance to go to High Heaven. Besides, with the advent of the information age, just how is someone supposed to not know about Islam?
QUOTE(cwstjdenobs @ Jul 13 2011, 12:31 PM) I'm really surprised that no one has brought up there can not exist an all knowing, all powerful God and there be free will at the same time.
Just how is that?
QUOTE(Issac @ Jul 13 2011, 01:39 PM)
Been reading through this thread... and I'll give my little input into this.
I'm agnostic, I don't believe, but I can't be sure. I'm open minded.
My girlfriend is christian. She calls herself a "modern christian" though, and thing that religion should follow the evolution...
For example, back in the days when the bible was written, they said that God created the earth and the animals and blah blah. Well, they didn't know about the big bang then, which there are scientific evidence of!
However, now that we all know that fact, we could interpret the bible in a different way. Was it God who created the big bang, which lead to earth being created, which lead to animals being created from bacteria and blah blah... did God create evolution?
He created life vs. He created evolution?
Now that is what I could accept as a healthy view on religions, over all... use it to believe, to explain the unexplainable until it actually is explained and proven.
Religion shouldn't stay the same like it was centuries ago, it should follow into the modern era and evolve!
Do you guys see what I'm thinking? Now once again, I don't believe, but if I would it would be like this. If someone tell me that God created the big bang? Sure, that maybe is what happened... I don't know, and until someone proves otherwise, I'll accept that oppinon and won't think anyone is stupid for saying so.
(Like I do think people who denies evolution, denies that earth is as old as it is, etc. are stupid).