amantubillahi

amantubillahi

Friday, August 28, 2015

4:32 PM

1. I believe in strange things, things I haven't seen or experienced , so I don’t mind if other religionists share their beliefs however different  they may seem to me. This is an open invite to Hindus, Buddhists, Christians Communists, agnostics of every kind, and Gnostics of every flavour. Share views, ask questions about the other; keep your faith, know another's. Let me start by telling you mine….

2. I believe in Deity, Planned evolution, A God, not a plural of God, just One, Unique, the One to whom every created and non-created thing owes  its very being, who isn't begotten or does He beget children. To reduce Him to the created in our eyes, is to reduce Him to human terms and the Uncreated cannot be a created. Thus said,

3. I believe in a whole universe is out there hidden from our eyes, incredibly larger than we humans could ever imagine. I believe in beings called Angels, certainly not looking like a cherub, nor your earthly beloved, but huge creatures who are in the total absolute bidding of this One God.

 Just one of these Angels, called Michael, has a head so large that it can retain the waters of the earth, without ever spilling a drop. Imagine , if you will , his body size, and he isn't the biggest one of them either. Gabriel is larger. Man, is a very weak creature, though he thinks he is something else ! We are unable to see and hear beyond certain parameters and for example we cannot hear as well as a dog, yet know a dog can hear better than us.

4. I believe that this God, this Allah, created Man and thereafter gave him an instruction manual, consistent stuff.  If any scripture is inconsistent with itself it simply means, it's not from God, whatever is claimed otherwise.

It's something like we expect an instruction manual when you buy the latest BMW, and an entirely plausible thing that IF God made Man, He ought to have invested him with an instruction manual too. What's implausible is that God made Man in His Image, taken literally and that to me is because, apart of divesting His Godhood, He, God would have to be a Multi Colored , Multi-racial black, white and yellow Being of varied hue, Frizzy haired here n Spiky Chinese hair there, and elsewhere, dunno where, long of locks and besides this,  being Man and Woman at the same time too. Nope, implausible.

5. I believe God gave Foremen to teach them Men to Drive. These foremen, aka, Prophets , Messengers, and holy me were the authoritative, certified guides of the manual of conduct of vehicle Man.

  The Manual, thus sent had to be simple, yet complex, understood by every man, simple minded and complex thinking.

 So, Aboriginal Australians , with a limited vocabulary, 600 words in all to their language, believed that God was a Unique Being having no alimentary canal, no asshole, and therefore no need for food. Simple, eloquent thinking and succinctly put ; if a " God" had to eat , He would be subject to hunger and could die in the absence of food. God didn’t have to prove his Godhood by eating a broiled fish and honeycomb, no indeed, that was actually done to prove Jesus' manhood, human hood, not god hood !

 For other tribes and nations came the Ten Commandments and a full exhaustive explanation to the 10, was and is , the Quran. You can claim that Quran is of Human  origin, but do tell the Catholic Church at Pontiffs level, they'd be very interested as they've been trying to disprove the Qurans Divine origin these 1000+ years past.

Radical departures from the manual sent , as many have done in history, is an entirely probable thing, for man changes words n meanings of a divine text to his liking and own prejudices,  never mind what God, the Deity said. In the case of Quran, the text has never been changed , say its worst detractors, but we have to admit that frequently people have tried and failed,  to change its interpretation and succeeded amongst their own narrow supporters.

And , the message itself, universally spelt out is: " Hear oh israel ! The Lord thy God is One God" -Bible; and "Qul Huwallahu Ahad ! - Quran… exactly same in meaning. ( so, why are they fighting ?)

6. I believe in a purpose to Life as Life itself is short and death certain and choices given as options to behaviour. If no choices were available to man, there would be no purpose to life ! As to the question you may ask, " why all this stuff about creation choice, manual, heaven hell", the simple answer is I don’t know, and its beyond my pay grade and yours. 

I believe in lasting solutions , not quick fixes, where father Time stands still, where we don’t age, and we live happily in ever increasing detail, never to be removed,  ever. Not interested in re birth, paradise on earth, for living on earth is a daily grind even for the rich. Life on Earth, is really a bore, for by the time you’ve made it(materially), you’ve had it( life ends) Better to hope for a promise lasting and work toward it. No loss in the offer , no loss in trying anyway.

7. Getting seriously philosophical now, with every one of us, there's stuff that’s happened in the past that unchangeable now, by its very nature.  Things happened and it was just meant to be; no room in my life for gnashing teeth and saying" if only etc etc" Destiny is all what happened in the past so get over it and start anew. That’s Qadr or Destiny I'm speaking of.  Look at it as  tests only in a short sharp life on earth.

This then is the very  core of my beliefs.. I've shared with you and will love to hear yours too.