RE: Question for both Christians and Muslims.
July 10, 2012 at 3:28 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2012 at 3:30 pm by Mystic.)
(July 10, 2012 at 3:23 pm)Rayaan Wrote:(July 10, 2012 at 1:45 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Are disbelievers unjust for disbelieving or do disbelievers disbelieve because they are unjust?
I'm not sure. It sort of sounds like the chicken and egg question.
Also, I don't think that belief/disbelief is an indication of whether or not someone is just/unjust. Rather, I think that the disbelief itself is the unjust, but not necessarily the person.
Believe it or not, Quran paints both images, in some verses.
It states that God punishes people for their disbelief, and people will to go to hell because they disbelieved and says whom is more unjust then whom rejects God's Ayat (signs/revelations/instances of his guidance) and at the same time states they are blind because their hearts are stained by sins and evil actions, which makes them not hear, and states if he knew any good in them, he would have made the hear and says God doesn't guide the unjust.
But this is an issue, which ones comes first. If injustice/bad actions come first, then why is God stating he punishes them for disbelief? And if he punishes them for disbelief, why does he state then their hearts were blind and deaf to their own evil, and that is why they disbelieved...so what caused disbelief should be the real reason of punishment here.
It's the same problem with Christianity. Both images are shown in the Bible. But both can't be true.
The real problem in trying to condemn disbelief as a bad action, while at the same time, trying to say, the reason they disbelief is due to evil, is a natural consequence of trying to condemn disbelievers.
The problem will naturally arise when trying to condemn disbelievers.
