Actions and their Weight: There is the outcome of actions and there is the recompense for the actions. According to my faith, the outcome is already preordained, while the choice to choose why and whether to choose to act or not is left to us. Eventually we end up doing whatever has already been preordained, and the program of this world proceeds as planned. Thus, the weight of the actions depends on the choices we make and the intentions and reasons behind them. Faith plays a major role in the evaluation of the choice.
Evidence (or the lack of it) for An Omniscient Being: There is no evidence for either atheism or polytheism. The only deduction all humans can make from our daily experiences is that there is always someone who makes something, i.e. nothing comes from nothing. The other deduction that we can make from human interactions is that whenever there are more than one claimants to power, there eventually is a power struggle, with either one person dominating the rest, or whatever they were fighting over gets destroyed. Thus, logically, there can only be one God. Of course, that leads us to the question that if there is a God who is uncreated, then why can't everything else also come into existence without a creator? There is a definite gap in our knowledge as we know nothing about God, but that is not a proof for the non-existence of God. It simply means that our knowledge is limited and inadequate. Faith and Justice: The greatest injustice conceivable is to deny the existence of God or to believe that there can be more than one God. The Hereafter is about Justice and Recompense. Coming back to my previous post where I've mentioned The Trust, only those humans can be entrusted with the Gardens of Eternity who are able to prove that they qualify for the huge responsibility that comes with such an inheritance: that they have done their best to be Just towards God and His creations, including one's own self, and are kind and generous, and are doers of good deeds. Thus the need for this trial we call life on Earth. Therefore, it is deliberately a blindfolded test. This is how I understand it. And God knows best. Samiya On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 6:46 AM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Actions carry weight only if they are based upon the correct beliefs. >> > > I don't think so. If you hit me in the head with a heavy ax > t > hat action carries weight regardless of what beliefs were or were not > dancing around in your head when you did it. If somebody does the wrong > thing for the right reason it's still the wrong thing, and the right thing > for the wrong reason > is > > still the right thing. > > >> As I understand it, in this world we have been sent to be tested >> > > But why do religious people insist God devised it as is it as a > stupidity test rather than a IQ te > st? > > > >> > >> as stated in Quran 8:4. For those who believe and seek forgiveness for >> their sins, God will grace them with a garden as extensive as heaven >> > > So says the Quran, and you believe it's true for the same reason anybody > believes what the Quran (or the Bible) says is true, because their Mommy > and Daddy told them it's true. It's no deeper than that. That's why there > aren't many Baptists in Pakistan but lots of them in Mississippi. If you > tell me where somebody was born I can have a pretty good idea what their > religious beliefs are. Your deepest held beliefs are a function of > Geography. > > So it's > easy to understand why a human could gain power by pushing the idea that > believing in stuff he can't prove is a good idea, but you still haven't > answered the question I asked in my last post. W > h > y on earth would an omniscient being > > consider > > holding an > > unshakable > > belief in > > the face > > of overwhelming > > contrary evidence to be a virtue > > and not a vice > > ? > > John K Clark > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
