One of the most debated ideas in the history of philosophy was the apparent paradox between the divine decree and free will. The problem arises from the question that if everything happens according to a certain law then where will our own free choice and responsibility?This is a very important issue in spirituality and has been approached in various way. Common wisdom says that everything is both deterministic and non deterministic. Paradoxically in philosophy and religions free will can only arise when there is a choice to make . Between…
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SAME RELIGIOUS PRECEPTS FOR ALL
The world’s religions share a lot a principles and precepts. The golden rule of reciprocal ethic, “love your neighbor as yourself “is taught is almost every religion. For Judaism and Christianity the bible states in Leviticus 9:18 : “ You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” . The same idea is re-transmitted in Islam in a famous hadith where the prophet Muhammad,(pbuh) is reported to have said that “Not one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself”. And, also in the…
Read MoreIs religion dangerous?(French)
Beaucoup d’Études statistiques démontrent une nette corrélation entre la foi religieuse et la pauvreté. Ce qui flatte souvent les détracteurs de la religion comme Karl Marx qui disait que la religion est l’opium du peuple. La religion a pourtant une grande valeur dans toutes nos sociétés. L’éthique contemporain reste toujours basée sur la religion et les réponses de la religion aux questions existentielles restent toujours plus plausibles que certaines réponses de la plupart des branches de la science. Ainsi la théorie de l’évolution de Darwin n’a jamais fait l’unanimité auprès…
Read MoreWhat is a curse and how can you identify it?- Five signs to identify a curse and 3 steps to get rid of it
Have you ever have the impression that someone is watching over you ? Every-time you seem to have succeeded in something it fires back at the last minute. You are well qualified but you can never do something good or succeed in what you deserve? I am not talking about having mere qualifications, but I am talking about being able to do what you can really do. Did you ever have the impression that someone is denying to give you things that you are sure belong to you? They are…
Read MoreWhere do we go when we die?
Nobody can escape death. It is our final destination no matter how rich or poor, handsome or ugly, powerful or weak we are. The only immortal creatures we know are from mythologies. But for sure,we are all, or at least a part of us is immortal. There are unfounded speculations about death in various cultures and societies, and luckily they are only speculations. When we talk about life we are talking about the soul. At least from a religious point of view. Both the bible and the qu’ran refer to…
Read MoreCan you be religious and rich?
There is a famous quotation from the bible : Marc 10:25 “It is easier for a camel to go through the eyes of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God”. But there were also rich prophets such as King Salomon the son of David. King Salomon is reported in the Torah., the bible and the qu’ran as well as in Islamic Hadiths to have been very rich and wise . And as a prophet of God no one can doubt that he was…
Read MoreChristianisme et Islam, outils de servitude?
« Les missionnaires, quand ils sont venus avaient dans leurs mains la Bible et, nous, nos terres. Ils nous ont demandé de fermer nos yeux pour prier. Quand nous avons ouvert les yeux, ils avaient nos terres et, nous, leur Bible ».Cette phrase est de Jomo Kenyatta, celui qu’on a appelle fer de lance du Kenya. Et de plus en plus des panafricanistes critiquent les religions importées et somment les africains à un retour aux sources . En plus, d’innombrables personnes partout dans le monde affirment que la religion est…
Read MoreWhat do you do when you doubt about what is right or wrong?
Religion consists in doing and preaching all that is prescribed and preventing oneself and others from all that is forbidden. The teachings of religion rests on this twin principle: Enjoining good and forbidding evil. What is good is what is prescribed by the commandments of God and Shariah. What is wrong is what is forbidden. Thus one thing that is prescribed will sometimes come into conflict with one thing that is forbidden. What will you do here? You have to weigh the act. There are acts having both evil and…
Read MoreDIVINE KNOWLEDGE IS EXPERIMENTAL
Things happen according to certain laws and the divine law is the law above all others. We are accountable for our deeds whether we believe it or not. Indeed God is capable of everything but still an Elephant cannot fly and a blind person cannot see. Nature is subjected to conditions. Science has been trying to grasp these conditions but always to a limited extent. Fortunately. There is a secret in the creator. He does not reveal itself except to a limited extend and he will veil it so that…
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