What is a proof?

[Muslim Scholar]

I see from other threads that you are usually try to refute a religion by contradictions you find in it.

Does a contradiction means that it is not from God?

Yes. Otherwise it is a flawed message since the requirement of a perfect being is that his communications be perfect. And if the human channel was flawed, then the entire message is discarded.

I agree with you, a true religion MUST have a way to convince people that it is from God and it should not have any REAL contradictions

A paradox: In Islam, after a person dies, and he goes to Jahannam, he will eat bitter plants. Obviously the dead have no need for food, so the paradox is assuming that these plants are real and it is not a metaphor.

It is not a paradox because you don't know what will happen after people are dying, it is a probable contradiction.

This is my point
A Logical Paradox is something that is contradicting (logically) with itself
Having a square that has non-equal sides
A contradiction is a conflict in your understanding of some statement, it can be true or false

It is a contadiction to believe in a good and loving God when he makes a Hell where only 1% of His believers will escape it, and then make it so well organized in 7 levels, each level for different kinds of people, a variety of demons, eternal fire, smoke, torture, which really is more asscoiated with the Marquis De Sade then a Good deity.

If they deserve hell then it is not a contradiction

Any religion that has a hell, makes it to control the ignorant. The more complex the hell, the more controlling the religion. Mohammend probably stole that idea from the Church, and it served him well. But the problem with having a religion to subdue freedom is that, in the end, freedom wins.

Controlling is not bad as we are slaves