I’m afraid you misunderstood me. I suggested - perhaps a bit playfully, but not dishonestly - that, if you would allow yourself to learn how to actually debate someone - and by that, I mean, actually listening to the other person’s viewpoint and considering what they have to say, rather than saying things like “you’re not fair” - we could have some lively debates around here. But you start off with saying how “you people are not fair” and insisting that we accept your prouncements, when you are not willing to accept ours. I am not interested in starting a “debate” with you where you just go round and round with the same “arguments” you always use on all the Christians on this forum because no one ever gets anywhere.
What???
Indeed; once cavemen were mentioned, I unintentionally place it at the front of this discussion.This is an interesting topic, but the thread has been seriously derailed. Maybe someone should start a new thread to speculate about cavemen’s having souls?
Now, back to our program.
Please forgive me if I seem a little too assertive. Anyway, for one thing, the mortal beings with souls were human in every way, not at all like any “other” animals. I believe that Adam and Eve were good-looking because they were the first people and the latter had been hand-chosen by God, emerging from the dust of the earth(whether literally or not; remember that we are “stardust” in a feasible way). Anything so made by God has to be beautiful in form(and angels, of course, are typically portrayed as being lovely, partly because of their innocence/goodness, as man possessed before his Fall). For an argument as to whether animals have souls, please read my comments at “Pets in Paradise”(a discussion which became more philosophical). Excuse me; I have leave at the moment.
It’s not that far off base. The pride of Islam is a caveman. Osama bin Laden.
If this happened to those young girls that’s really horrific. Of course we could all start pointing to horrifying acts performed by everyone’s religion. The Catholics did this, the Protestants did that, the Baptists, the Lutheran’s…the list goes on.
Anyway, the Jinni are supposed to be demons whom had been enslaved by the Seal of Sulaiman. Naturally, they are common figures in Muslim folklore(please, no jokes involving Disney’s “Aladdin” or some cinematic portrayal of “Arabian Nights!”)
I was just trying to be a bit sarcastic…that’s all. Today it is the extremists in islam that get all the news. Very few muslims in a position of authority will counter him or terrorism. Some will…but they are few and far between.
Islam denies the Divinity of Christ. That’s all I need to know. The Angel Gabriel told the Virgin Mary that she would conceive of the Holy Spirit and bear the Christ. The second person the Holy Trinity. Islam claims that Gabriel then told mohammad that Christ was not the Son of the Most High. The Great I Am.
