In a recent survey, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life notes that “Africa is clearly among the most religious places in the world. Islam’s central religious text is the Qur’an which is to believed by Muslims to be God’s direct words. Dude, You Have No Qur’an! ”. “The doctrine of personal responsibility is a cardinal feature of Islam.”3 Yusuf Ali explains that on the Day of Judgment each soul would have to answer for its own deeds. XLV (Al-Jathiya), when God says “God created the heavens and the earth for just ends, and in order that each soul may find the recompense of what it has earned , and none of them be wronged.”, V. 21 of Ch. The first pope or Bishop of Rome was none other than St. Peter. From the very first verse of Scripture, God is active. X (Yunus), where God says “Their abode is the Fire, because of the (evil) they earned.”, V. 22 of Ch. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Dustin Hoffman race against time and against an evil cover-up to stop the virus from spreading.

There are other verses in the Qu’ran that God mentions that each person gets rewards for what good s/he does and will be punished for whatever evil s/he has done, e.g., V. 286 of Ch. What if the cosmos is all that there is? There is one person I see as my intellectual equal, and I love them. Thus Citizenship is an important identity for a person to enjoy their most fundamental right, domestic and international, with respect to the country a person resides. Puzzle out who this person from myth could be! The person cannot claim merit from others, nor is he responsible for the crime or sins of the others. Plantinga does not affirm that the argument provides conclusive proof that God exists, but he does claim that there is nothing irrational in accepting it. Of their merits there is no question in your case! For example, the people of the book try to claim the merits of Prophet Abraham (peace be upon him) or Patriarchs or Jesus (peace be upon him). In many countries across the continent, roughly nine-in-ten people or more say religion is very important in their lives.” The survey found that more than 95% of Africans claim adherence to the Islamic or Christian faith.

Only in one brief reference by Al-Tabari, it is Iblis, not Azrael who collects dust from earth, leading to his claim to be superior. The Bible is clear that all three Persons are each one hundred percent God. On the other hand, the survey also reveals clear signs of tension and division. Without peace and justice between these two religious communities, there can be no meaningful peace in the world. Since the 1950s there has been considerable emphasis on statistical methods, side by side with the more theoretical discussions arising from classical sociology. That reward will be temporary, but unfailing.”3 However, there are two conditions – to be a believer (necessary) – and to do righteous deeds 3 that can save human beings from falling to the “lowest of the low” as indicated in the Qur-an, Ch. “God, the Almighty, the Owner of Absolute Will who can do as He wishes, has given this ability to man. Man may exercise authority and willpower. This procedure has several pitfalls-partly because contemporary nonliterate peoples, often dismissed as “primitives,” are themselves the product of a long historical process and because their culture may have changed over the millennia in many and various ways.

To help the church reexamine its engagement with Islam over the years, I will outline the different faces or configurations of Islam in contemporary Africa and suggest ways the church has engaged and can engage with Muslims. Testimonies can range widely. To protest this, people as many draw depictions of Muhammad as they can. This broad definition would include newborns and other people who have not been exposed to theistic ideas. Everybody Draw Muhammad Day is a day reserved for an online protest of violent actions by Muslims against people who attempt to make depictions of Muhammad which is strictly against the rules of Islam. This does not make sense in Islam as the fact that these people were righteous men in the past, it cannot help us unless we are ourselves righteous. We are a people of hoping, trying our best and lamenting our worst. The famous lebkuchen gingerbread in Nuremberg is considered to be the best gingerbread in the world. Locke made her film debut back in the late 1960s and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in her very first role in “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.” She went in to star in many other films over the next few years and was a talented director too.