(August 24, 2016 at 9:46 am)popsthebuilder Wrote: Time was an issue last night, and really still is as I have just pulled up on the job. These subjects or rather this subject is of the utmost importance and surely much more clarity is needed on my part.
I think everyone understands that AF is a hobby and I didn’t mean to imply that anyone has any obligations to contribute beyond what fits in their spare time.
(August 24, 2016 at 9:46 am)popsthebuilder Wrote: I can say it is somewhat synonymous with the first cause and Brahma, Islam calls IT Allah. Man isn't GOD in any form and never was. All prophets and or messengers have always been of a single accord.
The older I get the less and less I buy into the idea of a big mountain with several paths or blind men describing an elephant. I see big conceptual gulfs between say Roman Catholicism, Wahhabi Islam, and Tibetan Buddhism. Maybe I haven’t studied other traditions deeply enough to see the commonalities. All I’m saying is that I’m not seeing them. For example, Christianity sees the intelligible order of the world as a direct reflection of a God that is to some small measure accessible to reason. Not so in Islam. Islam’s Allah transcends rational thought and can only be accessed by special revelation. That is not a minor difference.
(August 24, 2016 at 9:46 am)popsthebuilder Wrote: There are two opposing forces; One Creator GOD; characteristics in part; long suffering, benevolent, giving, merciful, giver of life, former of creation, all knowing, all powerful…The other nature is that of void or the absence of existence
Technically, the void would not be a force since it is nothing at all.
