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Hello friends, To those who remember me or may be interested, last time I posted, I promised to drop by now and then. I thought you might like to know where I am on my spiritual journey. Well, quite recently I stumbled on information about Orthodox Christianity,and am conversing via e-mail...

Thank you for all your advice and comments. I agree with everything in this post. :) A little update: My school has begun monitoring the computers for non-academic activities, so I'll have even less time to spend educating myself online. However, I will hopefully soon be visiting a church I...

NewMuslim, I’m very sorry I haven’t replied sooner. I wanted to read some of your link and think over it all before replying, and I haven’t had as much time as I’d like, what with exams, finding a new job etc. Also had a crisis of confidence about being involved in this thread at all. I’ve been...

That's fine with me, Samiha. :) Sorry for the trouble. I'm not usually such a nuisance in a single day.

I see you've gone, so I've posted my reply here as well. Couldn't delete my thread though. Moderators: Would you delete that version if you want to get rid of one, please? Thank you. Aaaaaaaanyway... Not all agree that the gospels contradict each other. See here...

Haha, whoops, sorry, I was off in the Lounge doing another one (thought it seemed out of place for a Christian to start a thread like this in the Islamic Discussion forum). I've answered your last post over there. http://www.turntoislam.com/forum/showthread.php?p=24134#post24134 I could copy and...

Written years afterwards, yet all in agreement. It wasn't expected back then that the writers of such scripts would always give their real names. It was commonplace to sign things with the names of real apostles. It wasn't necessarily intended to be deceitful. Who do you believe about the...

The only one who deserves the positive side of justice is God. For this reason, He is justified in not delivering the negative side of justice to those who actually deserve it, when it pleases Him not to. If He were to deliver justice to everyone, we'd all go to Hell. We've all been selfish...

Babies, I'm not sure about. The Bible doesn't mention what happens when they die, or whether they deserve punishment before they've demonstrated sin. It also doesn't mention the fate of the severely mentally retarded, or of less intelligent species, but then if none of these will read and...

Just want to clear up the Trinity issue: Most who call themselves Christians believe that there is one God. However, the history of God's imminence in the world is not one dimensional. There are three main aspects of God's work that we talk about. One, that He created the world, another, that...

The idea is, no one deserves salvation on their own merit. Sin is just evidence of underlying evil in all of us. However many good deeds we do won't change what we essentially are. If we were truly good, we would do good all the time, instead of whenever we had something to gain from it...

Thank you everyone. :) Mohammad Toseef, I have heard of Abrestwyth, and I recently began learning Welsh because I may go to study in North Wales in a few years.

^Although I see I still can't spell it. :rolleyes:

Well, it's more like 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1, in most Christians' minds. I'm working on a slightly different model myself. Some people translate the Bible's 'Son of God' as 'slave/servant of God'. I'm considering this possibility too, but I still consider myself a Christian, i.e. I believe in the...

What about those who say God is three thirds of a Trinity? Three identical but functionally separate thirds, or three essentially different aspects all worthy of worship due to a common quality of Goodness which makes them in a sense, One? Or, those who say God is a third of a trinity, but the...

Hehe, OK that did sound harsh. I do have my limits, I suppose. I've never been convinced that babies and fetuses deserve Hell, for example. Neither religion's text addresses that issue directly, as far as I can tell, so I just trust God with it. Nothing else I can do. OK, I'll get going on that...

There was a story last week of yet another poisoning of a political Russian, this time in Ireland. That makes three, including Litvinenko's friend. It is starting to look like a rather large coincidence. I would like to know why they're targeting people visiting the UK and Ireland though... are...

Oh yes. In Christianity too, no human deserves to escape Hell. God may morally select however and whomever He pleases. I'm familiar with and accepting of this concept.:) Of course. Thank You God:jumpclap: (Would it be wrong for me to call Him Allah at this stage?) Well, I've always thought of...

Ah, thank you. Yes, I appreciate that complacency would be selfish and dangerous. Avoiding Hell is not my sole objective - pleasing God is my priority - though I'd rather know where I stand with it, of course. Might help me think more clearly as I'm learning more and sorting it all out in my...

Thank you duran and Muslim-. What a warm welcome. :)