Quote:We don't consider Allah to be all-good, but He is the source of all goodness.
Well, if he is not all-good, then there are times and circumstances when he must be not-good (evil). Correct?
Quote:He is not omnibenevolent, but He is just and merciful.
He can't be both (seem my other posts on this subject). If he is sometimes just and sometimes merciful, then he is capricious.
Quote:Allah describes Himself in the Quran with attributes such as the Benign (Al-Barr), the Merciful (Ar-Raheem), and the Pardoner (Al-Afuw), and at the same time, the Afflicter (Ad-Darr) and the Lord of Retribution (Al- Muntaqeem).
It is nice to see that Allah is no more or less self-contradictory than other divine fantasies.
Quote:But, even though we believe in a god that is merciful and wrathful at the same time, it is stated in an authentic hadith that Allah's mercy is greater than his wrath: "When Allah decreed the Creation He pledged Himself by writing in His book which is laid down with Him: 'My mercy prevails over my wrath.'" [Hadith Qudsi]
Then Allah must be merciful always. If not, then there are times and situations when his wrath prevails over his mercy. So much for the Hadith in question, then.
Quote:There is also another hadith which says that if the kafirs (non-believers) knew how great Allah's mercy is, even they would not lose hope of Paradise.
Hard to lose what you've never had.
Quote:And the moment a person converts to Islam sincerely, all his past sins will be erased.
Plagiarism. But no worries - it's a common theme in religious babbling.
Boru
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