Those who listen to the Word, and follow the best (meaning) in it: those are the ones whom God has guided, and those are the ones endued with understanding.
If it is the word of an infalliable omnipotent and omnicient being then it has to get EVERYTHING right. Accidentally sort of coming close to reality sometimes is not good enough.
True, if words written by God it should never contradict established facts, if there is one contradiction then it’s not a word of God for God’s words can never contradict itself or scientific facts. How can it contradict when the one created the universe and the one who said the words are the same, contradictions happens among those non-perfect beings.
For you.
What I believe he means here is that your god exerts no influence on the universe that we can detect, and only things which do no not exists exert no influence.
Thanks Demouse, I prefer to wait for him to confirm what you explained, once he do so I will comment.
You are comparing God to Mortal Kings. You can't do that. The power of mortal Kings to have servants is beyond the power of God.
I think it is YOU who do not understand Allah.
I am not comparing, I am giving you examples among us humans who is considered to be better X or Y. There is a rule or base I don’t know the proper word but we use the Arabic word “قاعدة" that any draw-back in the creatures logically the God should be even more far from having it, and any perfection quality in the creature the God should have it as perfect with no draw back. To explain what I am saying I will give you example, for example having the power, the ability to see, hear…etc those are considered positive qualities and we know if a creature does have this is more perfect than those who don’t. Meaning if you LordDave have eyes, you can see…etc and I was blind, I can’t see your body’s perfection is more than me, we are not equal. So any perfection approved among us the God have it as the perfect with no drawback, same thing goes for the non-perfect qualities. For example being blind, not having hands, can’t talk those who are drawbacks so naturally the God should be even more far from not having them. Why? Because the God we talk about in Islam (Allah) have all Perfections in everything. Another example if you can write books and you can only write 10 beautiful books and 1000 beautiful words while I can write 10000 books and 1000000 beautiful words, my ability in words is greater than yours! However it’s not yet perfect and not unlimited, but for God he is perfect and unlimited, Allah said in the Quran:
Say: "If the ocean were ink (wherewith to write out) the words of my Lord, sooner would the ocean be exhausted than would the words of my Lord, even if we added another ocean like it, for its aid.
Oh and a King can address his people without servants. A King has Television and mass media. You want us to believe God has such power yet he is merciful and wise so he uses an angel to speak to a man and wait for that message to be delivered to the people of the world all the while billions of souls are lost to Hell for not hearing the word of Mohommed who claims to be speaking for Gabriel, who claims to be speaking for God?
I really mean no harm Lorddave and please don’t get me wrong but it seems you are failing to understand the concept of “Perfection” or it might be I who is failing to explain it to you, sometimes I wished if I could be as great in English as I am in Arabic. Even though there are countless names and qualities for Allah, in Islam alone we can give you around 99 names of Allah. For example if your weight was 500 Kg I can’t say you are fat and thin at the same time, you are either fat or you are thin. If you are dying it doesn’t match you call yourself immortal, when you name yourself as the immortal that means you don’t die, it would be stupid to even ask you, can you die? It’s like asking a dead person, are you alive? Or asking a living person are you dead? The question itself is not suitable, same thing for god, since he is the creator he cannot be asked who created you, since he is the immortal he cannot be asked when you will die…etc Now we know God is All-Just when I say All-Just he is perfect in his justice, he is not siding with one side…etc so he doesn’t punish those who didn’t hear about Islam and Mohammed to hell, Allah may punish them if they heard about Islam, Allah and his Prophet yet they deny their existence, they don’t obey their words, it’s when they deserve to be punished, reasons for that I already explained in my post Ethic’s reward and I discussed this several times before.
If I were to say that Gabriel has given me a message from God last night to say to you, would you not doubt me? What proof could I offer besides what you have offered?
You would question why God did not speak to you directly would you not?
And so do I.
Your statement above just proves you don’t understand the perfection of God, now if you claimed that God talked to you and gave you message you deliver to human I would immediately say you are a liar or the god who gave you the message is a false god not the true one and only Mighty God Allah. Why is that? I will explain. God is perfect, God doesn’t lie…etc now if he sent someone like you who insult others, having some manner issues, liar…etc that means God didn’t know to select the right messenger, instead of sending a perfect messenger he sent someone having many mistakes. While Prophet Mohammed peace be upon him was the perfect human being, he never lied even before he deliver the message of god, his qualities was best which was accepted by his enemies as the best…etc so if God selected someone as Prophet Mohammed as his messenger is pure logic, it just proves his wisdom, his greatness and the greatness of his messengers. It’s well known through history and accepted by all just people that the Prophets of Allah (Mohammed, Ibraheem , Jesus, Moses, …etc) were the greatest humans who set their foot on earth. History can prove they had the best qualities you and me are nothing compared to their qualities.
By your own words, if you create something then you must possess that ability.
What that supposed to mean? I didn’t get your point.
Also: Who are you to question God's will? You claim that his will is unknown yet here you are, AGAIN, claiming to know what an all wise being would do. Are you all wise? If the all mighty throws us both into Heaven or Hell then who are you to question him? You are NOTHING! You are but a mere slave and his will is your bidding. If he bid you be thrown into Hell with me then his wisdom is beyond your understanding. But you believe otherwise don't you? You believe you are wiser than God. You believe you know what God will do because of your definition of Justice even though you have claimed time and time again that we can not imagine what Justice is for God.
You see you are once again repeating the same thing without having knowledge on what you are talking about, Allah said in the Quran:
Ah! Ye are those who fell to disputing (Even) in matters of which ye had some knowledge! but why dispute ye in matters of which ye have no knowledge? It is God Who knows, and ye who know not!
Even though I repeated the same thing many times I will try to explain it to you again. If we both did took the same test, I got 100 and you got 10 and the teacher gave us both A is that fair? It’s not fair, it’s a negative quality in the teacher, as I have explained earlier, if things we see negative among us we should push away that negative quality from God even more! since Allah is All-Justice his name and his great quality and wisdom will not allow such thing happen, I am not claiming I know the wisdom behind all Allah’s acts but I am saying things that are impossible because if it was possible it means God is not perfect, if God explained in a book or a message or anything else and he said oh humans, if you worshipped and me and had faith in me I will take you to heaven and if not I will take you to hell. Now if I worshipped and had faith in Allah then he take me to hell this will prove that Allah is a liar (Glory to Allah he is high above all that they say!- Exalted and Great beyond measure) it will prove he is not Justice, it proves he is contradicting himself which finally proves he is not Perfect, a God with many bad qualities and such God is a false God not worthy of Worship. Hope this clear the confusion you are having, If you still failed in understanding this I request some of the other members explain to you what I meant because I sincerely don’t know how to explain it in an easier way than this!
Once more, the net amount of mass/energy in the universe is mathematically zero. Nothing has been 'created' or 'destroyed' merely changed states as is consistent with what we know about quantum physics (See quantum foam and vacuum energy)
Can you explain more about the quantum foam? Is it an established fact! Or it’s just idea! Plus I did found this > Quantum foam is theorized to be created by virtual particles of very high energy? Created?
Secondly, it is not a sign of Allah's creation but an example of the principle that 'nothing' is unstable, as has been described before.
Just because you cannot see the signs you cannot say it’s not, just because the blind can’t see the sun he shouldn’t deny the existence of the sun
plus What do you mean nothing is unstable
I promise you that most of us here understand the Big Bang theory a hell of a lot better than you do with your copypasta.
Thanks for the information, I failed to understand what’s on the net, books…etc so can you please explain to me what you understand about the Big Bang theory?
Well this is awkward, because the expansion of the universe is not steady, Hubble's observations demonstrate that it is expanding and accelerating.
Can you read Arabic? Because what you said is not contradicting with the verse at all, in fact it supports it.
Bullshit plain and simple. This is the result of a five-second google, http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/the-evolution-of-the-immune-system/
It seems I have to register to read the article!
It would be impossible today for a city to survive for long without a fire service and look at all those trucks, men, call centres, satelite uplinks, equipment, fire alarms etc etc etc can we then conclude that New York City and London have always existed as they are today with a fully functioning fire service? Of course not, the fire service has grown in synchronisation with the city to respond to the city's needs, just as a 1940s fire service couldn't hope to keep a modern London safe, so an immune system from 10,000 years ago couldn't protect a modern human.
So are you claiming there was a beginning for the universe? Plus was the first human born adult or infant? How he survived?
It isn't 'chance' at all! We can accurately simulate golf, buildings, explosions, the movement of planets, the synthesis of protein, the splitting of cells, the movement of water, the expansion of gas, the flow of electricity etc etc because they're all beholden to the phisical proprties of the universe around us!
Before I comment I need to explain more, are you claiming your belief everything into existence came not by chance, accident or there was a cause?
Thou Can't give what thou does not have.
Do you think there is an answer to the question you are asking?
Well that explains why he can't give me a valid reason for believing in god.
Do you think you will ever find a valid reason for believing in God! If yes why and if not Why ?
can something exist without being created?
Yes, see: virtual particles and quantum foam.
To put it simply, can Chris come into existence and have life without being created, can another Chris come into existence without being created? When I read such comments I don’t know why but I immediately remember what Allah said in the Quran:
“They follow nothing but conjecture and what their own souls desire!- Even though there has already come to them Guidance from their Lord!”
Crustinator
I already answered your question twice, so that’s not a question I ignored so there is no need to quote it again. Do you want me to give you links to my answers? If yes please let me know