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[Grace Seeker]

thought provoking posts ....A.K.K and G.S

...apologise for butting in

I wonder if it was a test to see whether one takes their 5 physical senses ie. sight,sound etc (on a what may be called materialistic basis)
or if they used their inner senses (ie the souls intellect and divine wisdom bestowed upon them ) to know and believe what they outwardly saw.

...so those using their 'inner senses' (as they were meant to) believed what God intended
and those that used only their outer senses believed what they wanted- meaning they rejected their gift from God of their 'inner sense' which if they had chose to use they too would arrive at the same meaning God had intended for them to arrive at.

....wonder if that made sense :-[....i know what i mean but its a bit hard to put it into words.

No. I'm glad you "butted in" with that. It is an interesting thought.

And AKK, I finally get in your last post why you say that making something appear a certain way is not necessarily the same thing as convincing. Of course even the illussionists does convince some who are aware that of course there is always a trick to it. So, are you suggesting that those who saw it appear to be Jesus on the cross knew that it was not? If so, then why did they believe if they knew different? But if what they believed was a consequence of what was made to appear to them, then it wasn't the condition of their hearts so much as the illusion that was performed that produced the result. And was it not Allah who was the author of that illusion?

But I think Witness' ideas might have sense of integrity to them. Allow me to consider them awhile longer.

 

[rpwelton]

I don't think it has to mean that. I'm not saying that all relgions can be harmonized with one another either. But I do think that some of them, no not all of them, can declare themselves as true, without having to declare that there is no truth in anything else.

Well, as Muslims we believe that many religions hold some portion of truth in them. This is because God sent messengers to many nations, preaching the same message of Tawhid (Oneness of God) and at some point those messages became corrupted. However, bits of truth do exist in many religions.

We just say that Islam is the only religion that is completely true, and thus you need to accept Islam to enter paradise.