Of course .. G-d is able to do all things.
Wishful thinking, not that God can’t do anything. Do you also write Allah as A-h? Why are people in hell? It certainly is not to work off their sin. There is no getting out, people die and then there is judgement. Eternal judgement. Catholics believed bin Purgtory, where people could be prayed out of hell and into heaven, another money making scheme for the Catholics. Once a person rejects God they are doomed forever. Of course your Quran talks about Allah changing his mind all the time according to how you live, this week you are ok, next week - who knows.
No .. their PAST sins are forgiven.
What you are saying makes no sense .. a person who is "born again", effectively repents for their past sins,
but it does not mean that a person cannot fall back into a state of carelessness.
Listen, I understand you do not know what the Bible says or you simply don’t believe what it says when it does not agree with Muhammad. It makes perfect sense. Do you think that Abraham did not sin, or Moses, or David, or Solomon. The sins that they would commit were forgiven. Yes, we need to acknowledge the sin and repent, but once God has Justified us as His gift to us, the flesh is considered dead in Christ. No one is speaking about a “careless state”. Haven’t you been listening. A person will never stop sinning!!!!!!!! Never. If you want to understand Christianity, then spend some time in the Book of Romans, especially chapters 6 through 10. God makes His children Righteous, that never suggests that we go on sinning because we have a “free ticket to heaven”. That would only prove that we don’t know God, have never been ”born again”, and have not died to the sinful flesh.
Romans 6:1–4 (NASB95): What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:12–15 (NASB95): 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
Romans 8:1–10 (NASB95): 1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,
7 because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,
8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
10 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
but over time, we cannot maintain our faith at a constant level .. it rises and falls.
Sorry, you are confused about “Faith”. You equate it to works! My Faith is always increasing. Yet I go on sinning daily. “The flesh is weak”. But the “Spirit is willing”. I fight a battle daily to live the way God desires, but as long as I am in this sinful flesh, I will keep sinning.
and it also helps if you know what is a sin and what is not
This is simple, there does not need to be written out. If I do anything against my neighbor or do not love God, then I sin.
but you seem to think that "works"
“Works“ do not count when it comes to Salvation. Works do count when it comes to judgement from God when we stand before Him at the day of death. But Salvation and Justification are a gift of God.
Eph. 2:8-10 and Titus 3:5-7
Ephesians 2:8–10 (NASB95): 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9 not as a result of works,
So that no one can boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
Titus 3:5–7 (NASB95): 5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
6 whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
7 so that being
justified by His Grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
The more we struggle to please G-d
That is not unconditional love, it’s just “works”. God desires us to love Him, not on conditions. If someone gives you a gift and you try to pay for it, then you don’t understand what a “gift” is. God gave us a “gift” in His Son, Jesus and you keep trying to pay for it. Muhammad simply fell into the same mess that the Jews did, trying to live a legalistic life, thinking that that was what God desired from His creation. God simply wants His creation to love Him. That is just too simple for most people to understand. Go back to Ephesians chapter 2, “so that no one can boast”. Saying: “
Look at how good I am”
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There is no one good, no not one”. “Your works are as filthy rags”. Just read the Bible and ask God to show you the truth.
Easier said than done, though .. the devil is a clear enemy .. mankind are weak.
Paul says it very simply, “my conscience is clear”. “I am content”. I feel for people who have to live in a struggle every day of their life wondering ”if I am doing enough good”. that is not freedom, that is slavery.
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