(January 16, 2016 at 7:24 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote:
What you said is fair enough, but I think the Quran does a pretty good job of "putting Allah on a human level". For example, love is a human emotion. We can even quantify love by examining hormones involved in love. Take Quran 3:31, for example,
"Say, (O Muhammad, to mankind): If ye love Allah, follow me; Allah will love you and forgive you your sins. Allah is Forgiving, Merciful."
Anger is another human emotion/reaction. There are several verses that mention the anger of Allah. For example, Quran 3:162:
Is the man who follows the good pleasure of Allah Like the man who draws on himself the wrath of Allah, and whose abode is in Hell?- A woeful refuge!
Quran 38:27 claims Allah created creation with a purpose in mind:
Not without purpose did We create heaven and earth and all between! that were the thought of Unbelievers! but woe to the Unbelievers because of the Fire (of Hell)!
However, it does not tell us what this purpose is. So we are left wondering: What is the point of existence? Is it necessary? If humans were created only to serve Allah then that would make Allah extremely egotistical. People with big egos demand reverence.
By the way, having children is no problem for the Christian god.
As I said in another response. There r things that God does that we have been blessed with the ability to do too. For instance we see, hear, and have knowledge. But God is All Seeing, All Hearing, All Knowing. So even though we can do things God can do them much better. On the same ticket with love and anger. These are emotions we have but God has them as well and His are the most intense. On the other hand, just because we do things doesn't mean God does them too. For example eating, forgetting, erring, getting sick, dying, using the bathroom, the list goes on and on. Yes Christians believe that Jesus pbuh is the begotten son of God. We as Muslims believe begetting offspring is an animal act of sexual reproduction and this is another thing God does not do. In the Quran 19:35 it says: It is unbefitting to God that He should beget a son. Glory be to Him. For when He determines a matter He only says to it "Be" and it is.