The interpersonal actions with community and what we do for each other to make the world a better place is what God desires. “Love your neighbor as yourself” and “Pray for your enemies”. But that has nothing to do with eternal salvation. He says our work are filthy rags, without love. Having the love of God in us will by default result in helping our neighbors whether we like them or not and making the world an even better place. It cannot happen without God. We see daily the results in our society of removing God from our lives. Removing God from our federal buildings and schools only breeds the ever increasingly Godless nation we live in today. How’s that working for us? divorce rates are up, criminal violence is up, drug usage it up, pornography and sexual immorality are up, poverty is up, greed and corruption are up… I don’t see the society of Godless people really working to make this a better place. This is because the desire to serve God is replaced with serving self. Serving others to serve self is far different than serving others to honor God.

I will write (almost) what Nagas has said 14 centuries ago: “the only difference between you and us is this thin line”. I do not agree with the title or the contents of this artile, I agree with Glenn’s response more than 90%.

There is only One God that exist, we refer to Him depending on what we believe to be true. We Muslims believe we have same God as Christians and Jews, with very slight differences. In Arabic He is referred to as “Allah”. In Torrah he often address “Elohim”, in Bible Jesus called upon him “Ellai!” (pardon the spelling) and In Arabic we have words similar to both “Allahuma” and “Elahi”.

If we ignore the few differences, We believe in that The God is Almight, has power over all, living and dead, bodies with spirits or without spirites, heavens and earth, good and evil, day and night. He is just, merciful, gets angry when disobeyed, shows pleasure and forgiveness when we repent etc etc. He created everything and “Be and it is!” enough for him. He is all-wise and knows everything, even controls times. We cannot get to a level to understand Him fully, yet we are not forbidden to try to seek Him. Although He cannot be comprehended completely thats where the belief comes in, there are lots of things we cannot understand in life but we accept and belief in those.

When you consider that God is doing a trial and error thing by creating universes again and again. You are questioning God’s ability to the right things. We believe He is perfect and does not make any error, everything is in His knowledge, from the beginning of times to the end of it.

We believe in rewards and punishment, paradise and hell. I am not going to take sides that Muslims are the only ones going to heaven and no other religion and “others” are wrong etc. Because thats a completely seperate issue, as far as God is concerned, He does not even need our acknowledgement, approval or understand; we need it for ourselves to understand and know. Once you know God and realize how important He is in your life, then you will be guided.

Once Moses asked God, what if all your creation disobeyed you, God said: “I will order one of my cattle (animal) to eat and finish this whole universe in one bite”. Moses then asked: “Where is such a huge animal” God said: “It is grazing in one of my meadows with other like it”. Moses then asked where are those meadows, God replied it only for Me to know.

Mind is not sufficient to understand God or His existance, it needs belief and proper guidance to comprehend what God is.

When we say God is anything we want him to be, we do nothing but chop the magnitude of God off at the knees (in our own minds, of course). If we accept this then nothing is god.

When we say creationism is a fairy tale or just too farfetched we again elevate ourselves to a level where we have a right or capacity to know and understand how the universe was created. Let your kids learn the truth, regardless of how the world will treat them. Popular belief is not the definition of truth. Don’t be the person that has to have all the answers.
We are taught at an early age that for a ball to roll, it needs to be acted upon. We are also taught that the universe was created by a spontaneous big bang. Connect the dots, they can’t both be true.
If the flux theory is true, we see God’s creation over and over, not the absence of God’s power.

The question about Darfur… God has given mankind freewill. Mankind has chosen sin which is contagious and effects those around us. Hideous sin results in Darfur.

True that many religions explain God differently. What a great deception the devil has created. The ability to choose religions does not in itself legitimize all choices. There is only one God and he has sent his Son to die for us. This is the one only way to heaven. This is not an exclusive structure but inclusive, as it is available for every human.