ArchivedThe Quran - Is pre-ordained sin mans responsibility?Lady Fatima, peace to you in your quest for truth You asked the above question in an earlier discussion and it was a very good question. May I ask you another in response to it please? Why does Allah send people to hell? Is He incapable of causing people to turn to Him and escape so great a punishment for failing the tests of love? Why was God so incapable of maintaining His own word according to Islam, He needed to send a fresh revelation of it to Muhammed? No, both you and I believe that Allah/God has a Character and Characteristics and attributes that are eternally unchanging. From the beginning of the known time in our holy books (and I include the Torah and psalms in this), the requirement for the forgiveness of sins was a blood sacrifice. In taking on human flesh and dying for us, God was only being true to Himself and to His requirements set in place before we were even created. To do anything less would have gone against His eternal character. The Bible teaches that at anytime he could have caused the stones to cry out and worship Him, but He didn't. And He wasn't killed by evil men. The Bible declares that after He had cried out "It is finished". He allowed them to put Him on a cross and "He gave up His Spirit." They had tried many times previously to kill him and He had hid from them, then He set His face for Jerusalem and the cross (but that has also been discussed in others of my posts) Lady Fatima, God was fully capable of dealing with sin anyway He wanted, but the eternal consequences for sin laid down from eternity past demanded that the "wages of sin is death". To be true to Himself, and to His Holy character, God has to deal with sin. Sin is the ultimate rejection of God and God's holy character . The law of the universe as put in place by God required a sacrifice of blood and that sacrificial system in it's imperfection was seen in the old testament sacrificial system for the Jews. God promised that a time would come when the perfect sacrifice would come.. "the lamb slain before the foundation of the world." A bleeding God He may have been.. But nonetheless He was still God and to reject His solution for sin's penalty is to reject God Himself. I have shown OneGod in a previous post in another forum the reason why God had to do this.. and that it was all part of His eternal plan. |
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