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The Big Bang

Could it really have just come from nothing? And if that is the case, then why not apply that to everything else in life? Perhaps the man in the red underpants just spontaneously appeared!

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Unanswered Questions

In fact, in some ways those deeper questions are even more important than the physical and emotional issues, since they define our very reason for being. 

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reason might not be the best thing to use to find the answers

There may be many possible answers to these questions, and looking at the numerous ideas that have come from the human mind, it would seem that reason might not be the best thing to use to find the answers to these perplexing questions because what we want are not just any answers, but the right answers. 

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Why should I believe or reject his claim?

Religions generally are making quite a special claim. The claim is that they have a message from the Creator, and often a message that is supposed to be exclusive to that religion. So it’s a case of: ‘I’m right and everyone else is wrong!’ Not that this claim is in and of itself a problem from the point of view of reason. 

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There is simply no compelling reason to assume that whatever your parents and ancestors believed was the truth.

There is simply no compelling reason to assume that whatever your parents and ancestors believed was the truth, and it also does not make any reasonable sense just to ‘believe’ and take a leap of faith without any sort of reasonable justification. 

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THE TEST OF TEACHINGS

What exactly does it say about the Creator? Which religion teaches that there is One Unique Creator whose nature is differ­ent from the creation: One, Eternal, Self-Sufficient, Transcendent Creator?

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Can God do something evil?

There are two usual responses to such a question. Either: “No, He can’t”, which contradicts what the Christians previously said about God being able to do anything, or “Yes, He can if He wanted to but God never would do anything evil because the nature of God is good.”

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what is meant by say­ing “God’s Son”?

Some Christians might claim that they don’t consider Jesus as God, but as God’s Son. The problem here is what is meant by say­ing “God’s Son”? A human son is human like his mother and father, so is God’s Son also God? If so, we are back where we started and we have the same problem as before. 

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THE TEST OF UNIVERSALITY

Well, perhaps there are a few other tests we could apply to see if the I.D. is valid or not. One of them that makes some sort of sense is the idea of universality. What is meant by this is that this message from the Creator should be for everybody. 

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WARNING!

So far things have been easy going. What follows is going to be a bit of a rough ride when it comes to the sort of decisions and conclusions you need to make. I’m not trying to put you off. Re­ally I’m not, because it will be well worth the effort.

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shocking conclusions

What follows is going to lead you to a conclusion that for some might come as a shocking truth. Others might have suspected it already. One thing is for sure, once you know the truth your life can never be the same. It will always be with you. However hard you want to escape you can’t run away from yourself.

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THE TEST OF CHARACTER

Certainly none of us want to be conned or taken for a ride by a fraudster or end up following a madman. Of course a good fraud­ster will do everything in his or her power to make you think that they are sincere and truthful. 

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Aren’t there lots of problems with Islam?

Well, the Quran seems to be unlike any other scripture from at least one angle, and that is the nearly undisputed fact of its preser­vation and authenticity. Then again, how many of the issues that people have with Islam are actually to do with the teachings of the Quran and the Prophet as opposed to the behaviour of Muslims?

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Qur'an and The Modern World

The problem with judging any given book or scripture only on its morals and laws is that morals and laws in general are far from universal. For example, something that may seem like a harsh punishment in one culture is considered soft in another. 

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Quran is guidance from the Creator

The orientalist Richard Burton writes that the Qur’an we have today is ‘the text which has come down to us in the form in which it was organized and approved by the Prophet….What we have today in our hands is the mushaf [text] of Muhammad.’ 

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The Quran itself gives a sort of falsification test

The Quran, however, is no casual read. It can be very difficult to get one’s head around, since it doesn’t seem to follow any particu­lar order of events, topic or theme. It repeats itself a lot and even in the best English translation its style is challenging to say the least. 

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Did Muhammad write the Quran?

The most reasonable conclusion that explains the phenomenon of both the amazing level of information in the Quran and the clear sincerity and truthfulness of Mohammed is that he was what he claimed to be, the Messenger of God. 

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Amazing level of information

Now some of you might, or perhaps should be thinking what exactly is this ‘amazing level of information’ that I’m talking about, and this is a vast topic in itself which could in fact fill volumes, and then we’d need to add to that all the arguments and counter arguments, and that would fill even more volumes! There’s some recommended reading and web sites at the end of this if you’re interested in going deeper. 

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Where did Mohammed get such knowledge from if not from God?

Just think about the world 1400 years ago and the level of knowledge that existed, or perhaps we should say the level ignorance that was prevalent, especially in regards to the natural world. Of course some thinkers and philosophers had made some amazing discoveries, even estimating the circumference of the earth, but they also got a lot of things very wrong. 

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The Qur'an and Mountains

The Quran mentions many things about the natural world and asks us to think deeply and contemplate, and that those with understanding will realise that these are all signs that point to the power and wisdom of its Creator, that all of this is not for nothing or for entertainment, but rather for a profound and noble pur­pose.