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Long posts are typically rewarded with the gift of a potato at the end to make the long read worth it - I’m guessing the fact that it’s carved into a heart is an added bonus due to the feels of this particular post.

Do you remember someone shooting them at baseball practice?

Looks like we got a bad asss over here

Stop watching TV and read books,

3/3 Honestly, Occam’s razor kind leads to atheism. Some Jewish explanations make sense.
Anyway, yes, days. Here’s the thing - even if God did say “periods of time” or a more reasonable word, the translators might have changed it to “days” because it felt less likely to lead to questions. You can’t ever discount the gatekeepers making things easy on themselves.

2/3 If we exist and there’s an all-seeing, all-powerful being that exists, it must be intervention defeats the purpose of whatever plan there is. Otherwise, why would there be an individual (okay, millions of individuals throughout history) born into guaranteed suffering or painful victimhood? It can’t be that a creator doesn’t care. That’s not how real creators act on earth. It can’t be that this is a purpose, as how interesting could watching something suffer be, when you have the capacity to do anything? It’s boring watching things hurt and abusers are ridiculously predictable.
I disagree with the Christian 144,000 solution (of course) but it’s a logical conclusion. All of us reaching a state of blissful one-entity existence is logical, as of course it can’t be reached except through understanding reality, which can’t reached except through experience and thinking. Being reincarnated - taking the test over and over and over until you get it right - is also a logical conclusion.

1/2 The language point is so crucial. It’s tough to communicate when the other person only has a rudimentary understanding and as a result, rudimentary language. It’s not exactly a language limitation. Like, the work ‘cosin’ exists for 4 year olds; it’s just too many other things and effort to get them to comprehended it.
God spends all the effort on getting us not to be quite so shitty to each other (because agency, otherwise why bother with a created being at all?). No time for astronomy or physics. It’d be nice to have a clearer understanding of reality and laws governing objects. I look around and I can’t disagree with the focus. What is more important?

Also every almost religion has used their own teachings as reasoning and hurt people. Focusing on Islam whilst ignoring the abuses of, say, the Catholic Church is just your own bias speaking.

Cool. For reference books, try Sahih alBukhari, Sahih Muslim, Tirmidhi, AbuDawood, Hayatus Sahabah, and fazaail ul Amaal.

Look up on Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah. It's supposed to be the body of consensus comprised solely of learned scholars. Few follow them these days but they have the responsibility to 'update' the sharia based on teachings from the Quran, Sunnah, Ahadeeth, and practice of the Sahabah.

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