Re: Am I a confused Christian?
Peace pakiQueen
I’m not sure if you knew the answer to this question is present in both Christian scriptures and Muslim scriptures …
The basic answer is that no one can enter paradise except by the Mercy of God … Whereas when it comes to being granted paradise we believe that it is not important for us to say who will or who will not go to paradise as this decision is to be made by The Judge - which is a title of God. Rather we say that what Allah (SWT) loves for us we love it. He sent us the prophets so we love them and we show our love by following them.
We do not believe that there are different gods for different faiths … and when we look we can see it is not necessarily the case that Muslims are in the best position … rather Muslims are often tested and luxuries seem to belong to non-Muslims … if God took sides then the most successful people should be the ones who are closest to God, but we see the reverse.
We believe in a God for the whole of humanity and the entire universe … what I can say however is what the Qur’an says …
(The way the Qur’an narrates is in the second person … with the authority that only God can have … The concept of Trinity is Shirk which is not acceptable to Allah (SWT) … and whoever narrates the Qur’an is addressing you “People of the Book” requesting you not to believe in a Trinity - but to confirm that God is One … Your belief pakiQueen of Jesus being a prophet and that God is One is totally compatible with Islam.)
Verse 4:171
People of the Book, do not go to excess in your religion, and do not say anything about God except the truth: the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was nothing more than a messenger of God, His word, directed to Mary, a spirit from Him. So believe in God and His messengers and do not speak of a ‘Trinity’—stop, that is better for you—God is only one God, He is far above having a son, everything in the heavens and earth belongs to Him and He is the best one to trust.