Thank you, Mansoor

Submitted by jennife solis (United States), Mar 7, 2008 at 01:56

Thank you, Mansoor, for giving me the perfect opportunity to illuminate the self-obsession of anything and everything resembling "earning" a way to Paradise. You go on and on about "judgement" that will occur sometime in humanitie's future.

ALL RELIGIONS threaten with this "do good or be damned" drivel.

The ONLY "faith" that does NOT require the "good" of man is CHRISTIANITY. Yes, there are volitional consequences to the "bad" that humans commit, but ADMITTING we are not "good" enough, that a SAVIOR is REQUIERED to take the place of our imperfection, is the ULTIMATE addmittance and adhearance to HUMILITY. It took Christ to pay our way.

Does Islam contain humility? Do you know the difference between "false" humility and true?

Or do you think you are, or anyone else is, ALL THAT that he will "earn" his way to heaven?

Where in you are STUCK. If your "god" is perfect, why does he give such nebulous and foggy instruction with regards to Paradise? How "good" do you have to be? The grasp for an an answer opens the door to HUMAN INTERPRETATION, not to be found in any specific answer given from your "god".

False motivation is epitomized by persons "earning" their way to Paradise. These do not care about others, only what they themselves might earn by being "good".

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