(July 3, 2018 at 5:48 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: It's quite simple, we over all believe with our mouths and for convenience of peace in this world and delusional thinking we are safe in the next.
If we truly believed in God and the last day, if we truly believed in that being who are life should be devoted to, we would have devoted our lives to him with enough devotion to not have equated idols to God to the extent we disobey God to obey them.
The Quran for example says "therefore if you dispute regarding a matter so refer it to God and the Messenger if you believe in God and the last day" (4:59)and this pertained to what was obedience to God, and in that regard, it's not about whether we want to play basketball or soccer but matters of safety and fear, and regarding those who believe with their mouths and don't seek to perceive understand "and when a matter of safety or fear come to them, they spread it abroad, and had they referred it to the Messenger and (had they..) to those who possess the Authority from them, they would have known those who can perceive from them" and elsewhere said "therefore ask the family of the reminder if you do not know."
It takes a while to see it, but, it's a sad reality that God is to be searched with all our hearts yet many or even most people settle to deceive themselves "And from humans are those who say they believe in God and the last day, and they at all are not believers"
"They desire to deceive God while (in reality) they deceive themselves."
God and morality is not such that it simply exists because of him, it's interlinked in that degree of goodness, is to degree of recognition of God. And truly recognition of God is a state, it's belief by choice, which actions can help, good actions help direct to that, but ultimately, it comes down to one good deed and one evil deed, the good deed is to love sincerity to God to the extent we accept his pathways and doors to submitting to him and appreciating those guides as gifts from God, while the evil deed is mixing everything up, seeking to make ambiguous what is clear, and confuse people and ourselves- out of love of God and the goodness in his creation, all good deeds stems and out jealousy towards his chosen and their followers, all evil stems.
To equate evil with good is to have forsaken good, and used good for the sake of evil.
I will only address the title, given that and pardon my honesty, I did not understand any of the post.
The reason religions cannot agree is due to the fundamental cause of their existence. Religions exulist to exert power over others. An extraneous excuse to get one's fighting different people, killing murdering in the ne of their god.
I don't have a problem with believers. I do have a problem with preachers
