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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?