(April 17, 2018 at 5:52 am)robvalue Wrote:(April 17, 2018 at 4:58 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: God in the Quran is not an Anthropomorphized entity. You can't attribute human traits to him.
That's the difference of Islam from Christianity. God in Islam is not even drawn for the same exact reason: attribution of human traits to him is Anthropomorphism that is not valid at all.
Is Allah a sentient being, or just some mindless force? Is it choosing to torture when it doesn’t need to?
If it’s supposed to be a means to an end, can’t it achieve the same end another way? If not, where does this arbitrary restriction come from?
What can possibly be achieved by this torture?
From what I understood; he is more of a force. His description is described fully in this Sura:
Quote:Sura 112, The Quran:
( 1 ) Say, "He is Allah, [who is] One,
( 2 ) Allah, the Eternal Refuge/the hollow.
( 3 ) He neither begets nor is born,
( 4 ) Nor is there to Him any equivalent."
So he is a "Hollow" entity. That is more of a force. No wonder picturing him is impossible, as the Quran said:
Quote:Sura 6, The Quran:
( 103 ) Vision perceives Him not, but He perceives [all] vision; and He is the Subtle, the Acquainted.
That's my opinion goes to say that he is a fact of this universe, if you think about him as a hollow force that shaped everything including the word "create" itself; you will see the scale I mean. We did discover that there is a point in the void where everything began from; that's a scientific theory that is quite respected and even favored sometimes. God is the force that started everything from that void; he even started the void itself.
"He" is only a reference. God is not a male neither a female. He doesn't have gender.
