There's a number of things you've overlooked that I think you should consider. But the comment section here won't hold all of them. Are you on Facebook?
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
There's a number of things you've overlooked that I think you should consider. But the comment section here won't hold all of them. Are you on Facebook?
I am but I rarely use it.
This may do just as well then. The first thing you assumed was that God is a universal. True, most current religions believe in the existence of one God only, but even should person of God be the same one worship by, for example the Christians and the Muslims, that doesn't mean they worship the same God.
The idea the Muslims have of Allah(which simply means God), is one of a wrathful God who takes pleasure in punishing humans for their mistakes. However, the Christian's theological handbook says that "God is love". If a difference that polarizing can be made between two different ideas of the same God, we must assume that the ideas are not the same and that one must be wrong.
From the Christian perspective, God is vindicated and justified in every action because humans deserve what they get. However, they also don't believe God is hateful or enjoys punishing those He has created. They have a verse they would quote on this instance "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth...", meaning God corrects those He loves.
The second assumption you made was that God is like humans. You said, "You must be good and follow all sorts of rules which he then goes and completely ignores.
"Do as I say and not as I do" - seems to be his mantra. "
God isn't a human. The rules He gives to humans are for their benefit and protection. A man once said that when God says "Thou shalt not" He is saying "don't hurt yourself", and when He says, "Thou shalt" He is saying "help yourself to happiness". His rules don't bind Him because He is not human.
Ultimately, you can't think that the God worshiped by the Muslims is the same God worship by others. Religion is an abused word, because people use it as a noun, when really it is a verb. Religion is not something you can have, it is something that you do.