And what if you're not "of the Book"?

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The traditional Christian position is that one must accept Jesus as one's personal savior and pray to him to foregive one's sins [or to intermediate with the Father to that end] or one will be damned.

Yet another reason why I don't call myself a Christian anymore. I want nothing to do with such a viewpoint!!!
 
Hi again Lush :) :loving:


Gonna explain something to people, its interesting and after finding Islam myself (Alhamdulillah) it always seems to get to me :) This is kind of off topic so please bear with me :)

Back in the day I was basically convinced of the existance of God, although nothing else. Just that there is a God somewhere out there.

Eventually Alhamdulillah, Islam came into my life, I don't really know quite how but really, it has given me purpose and has guided me in all of my actions and I'm grateful for it:)

Here is what I always found interesting:


Allah - The word in Arabic for God. Literally Allah is Al-Ilah (Al means The AND Ilah means God) so basically you're worshipping "The God" not a specific man who many think is God or a specific Idol or whatever, just The God, wherever He is, however He is and wherever He is.

The word Muslim literally means to submit yourself to the will of God in arabic. So a Muslim is basically someone who surrenders themselves to the Will of God.

Its really very general. All you need is the Quran in order to know what rules to follow and to know the attributes of God Almighty, simple as that :)
 
Hi again Lush :) :loving:


Gonna explain something to people, its interesting and after finding Islam myself (Alhamdulillah) it always seems to get to me :) This is kind of off topic so please bear with me :)

Back in the day I was basically convinced of the existance of God, although nothing else. Just that there is a God somewhere out there.

Eventually Alhamdulillah, Islam came into my life, I don't really know quite how but really, it has given me purpose and has guided me in all of my actions and I'm grateful for it:)

Here is what I always found interesting:


Allah - The word in Arabic for God. Literally Allah is Al-Ilah (Al means The AND Ilah means God) so basically you're worshipping "The God" not a specific man who many think is God or a specific Idol or whatever, just The God, wherever He is, however He is and wherever He is.

The word Muslim literally means to submit yourself to the will of God in arabic. So a Muslim is basically someone who surrenders themselves to the Will of God.

Its really very general. All you need is the Quran in order to know what rules to follow and to know the attributes of God Almighty, simple as that :)

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Wow that's something that sounds so much more appealing to me than "fear of going to hell," it's so much more positive than scaring myself... for me at least.

Thanks for posting that :)
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