- If God had created Adam and Eve to stay in Heavens, was He unable to protect them from Satan? Did He warn them against obeying Satan by telling them the consequences if they did?
The fact is: When God created Adam & Eve, HE put them in Paradise & warned them against obeying Satan, & told them that if they did obey him, they will be kicked out of Paradise.
We know the rest of the story. Of course it was Gods plan all along to have Adam & Eve live here on earth, but He made them go through that experience with Satan as a practical lesson for all of us so that we know what happens to us if we disobey God & obey Satan, unless you think God planned for them to stay in Paradise forever but was unable to protect them from Satan.
I would not be a Muslim because Mohammed has created an Allah wo seeks to hinder man’s free will.
In contrast, Christianity teaches that God made man perfect and with a perfectly free will. A perfect man is not an all seeing, all knowing being. That is a description of God. A perfect man is a man who performs the function for which he was created perfectly. Man was made to love God and man can not perform this function perfectly unless he is free NOT to do it.
Therefore, if God had protected man from Satan and sin, then man would not have been perfectly free to love God.
8- salvation either wipes out all sins, or it does not.
If the first case is true, then it leads to what we say that Christianity encourages people to do whatever they please.
If the second case is the fact, then there is no need to what Jesus PBUH had gone through.
Again, the teachings of Islam have led its followers to this false dichotomy conclusion. That is why so many of them believe that Jesus was not crucified.
a. Salvation is union with God.
b. Justification is the process of salvation which we undergo during life. The closer we are to God the more justified we become.
c. Jesus death on the Cross permitted the entrance of humanity into heaven because He, God, came in the form of man to open the doors of heaven to men who have faith in Him.
- Christians worship more than one God, ie Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Christians say that it is only one God, however even their most knowledgeable priests cannot completely explain the trinity.
Can you explain Allah? Or is Allah unknowable? If Allah is unknowable then why do you condemn those who admit that they can’t understand their God?
But, although the Trinity is unknowable it is signified by space and time. Tell me, where do you divided the present from the past or the future? Is it now? Oh too late, its gone.
And it is signiified by the union of a man and woman in holy Matrimony. A man and woman united by the Spirit of Love. The Father, the Son, united by the Spirit of Love. This is why sex is univerally desired. It is a foreshadowing of the goodness of our heavenly rest in our God’s bosom.
This is not taught in Islam.
- Christians disregard the laws of the Old Testament,
Not so. You don’t understand the Christian religion.
Jesus said:
John 14
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
and have made it legal for themselves to do sinful acts such as eating pork, drinking alcohol, and not circumcising their sons.
These are not the eternal commandments of God. These are signs of the old Covenant which has been fulfilled on the Cross.
Jesus said:
Matthew 5
18 For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled.
And all was fulfilled on the Cross:
John 19:30 Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost.
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