Concerning the problem of sin and evil, does Islam have a serious enough view of sin and evil to prescribe the right medicine in the right dose? Surprisingly, the devout Muslim does not believe that evil has infected us or the world in a primal sense. Although Muslims believe that Adam “sinned” when he disobeyed God in the garden, they also believe that Allah completely forgave him, and that sin and death did not enter the world as a result of a historic fall. As one Muslim theologian has stated, “Man is not born a sinner and the doctrine of the sinfulness of man has no basis in Islam” (Geisler and Saleeb, Answering Islam, Baker Books, 44). Another Muslim author concurs:

In the Islamic view, human beings are no more ‘fallen’ than they are ‘saved.’ Because they are not ‘fallen,’ they have no need of a savior. But because they are not ‘saved’ either, they need to do good works - and do them ethically - which alone will earn them the desired salvation…. Salvation is an improper term, since, to need ‘salvation,’ one must be in a predicament beyond hope of escaping from it. But men and women are not in that predicament (Ibid., 45).

Let’s pause for a moment and consider the kind of world Islam constructs.

According to Islam, it would seem our natural sense that evil is a parasitic and primal infestation of our world is not rational. Human beings are not by nature sinners or prone to do evil. They are born innocent and begin a lifetime of choosing between good works or evil deeds, which eventually will be weighed in the balance at the end of one’s life. Our goal is to know Allah’s will and to do it in our own strength. But this view of the world seems to render Islam a rather weak interpreter of the human condition as we experience it. In fact, it is difficult to see how Islam differs from many secular projects that emphasize humanistic Utopian approaches to human fulfillment. Because these projects are based on an unrealistic diagnosis of the primal nature and the extent of sin and evil, they fall short of an effective solution to the human predicament.

The Bible reveals that evil is an objective reality. We at once cower before it and rage against it. But Islam denies this reality. Neither man nor his world is subject to a curse. The world is what it is, and there is no hope for it. Our goal is to perform enough Islamic good works and rituals so that we might someday leave this world and enter the Islamic paradise of sensual pleasure. Allah has created the world, but remains detached from it. He is not a lover of the world, but is the Lord over it. The world reels under the weight of suffering and evil, yet Allah requires his servants to work out their own salvation in their own power. The revelation he has left us tells us all about him, but very little about the true nature of the mess in which we find ourselves and why we are in it. We must do our best to do his will, and lean into the blindness.

What does Christianity offer? For one, Christianity takes our sense of objective evil seriously, and acknowledges our historic failure to rid ourselves of sin and evil. The God of Christianity loves the world he has created and longs to rescue it from its hopelessness. He does not leave his creation alone, but engages with it intimately, offering real power to real people. In fact, God so loved the world, that he himself entered it in the form of a man in order to reveal his love in a very personal way. And it is again the Christian God’s trinitarian nature that enabled him and motivated him to accomplish this. Rather than trivialize evil or deny its true objective weight, God himself entered the travail of his creation in the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Trinity.

God, in the person of Jesus Christ, not only stooped down to walk among us and to teach us the truth about our circumstances, but he also died on a cross, suffering the ultimate evil and bearing our sin on our behalf. And then he rose from the dead to conquer evil and death once and for all. Because of his death on the cross, forgiveness of sin is available. Because of his resurrection from the dead, freedom from sin, evil, and death is inevitable. The total eradication of sin, evil, and death, followed by the restoration of the created order according to God’s righteousness, is just a matter of time. Presently, the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of God’s eternal, internal community, remains active throughout the world making possible not only obedience to God's will, but also loving relationship with God as his children.

On the other hand, it is not surprising, considering the singular, non-communitarian nature of Allah, that he might not have the resources to move outside of himself to offer his crying creation a personal touch. Perhaps a state of timeless detachment is the best he can do. But the Christian God offers, not only redemption, but also relationship, and it is through this relationship that we experience spiritual potency once again. It is through this relationship that we can be internally transformed into people of virtue, actually victorious over sin and evil. Ultimately, we can have assurance that, even though we wrestle with evil today, someday it will be no more, and God’s creation will rejoice.

In summary, it appears that the God of Christianity has the right stuff necessary to carry all three events of our divine triathlon. This is a God we can trust. This is a God we can know. This is a God worth worshiping. This is the gold-medal God.

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Lagoshia,but your quran  copied and repeated enough of the Biblical stories.That means your quran is bigger false! [color=#990000][/color]

DonPizzaro:

Lagoshia,but your quran copied and repeated enough of the Biblical stories.That means your quran is bigger false! [color=#990000][/color]

i wonder then why i do not find the trash contained in the bible in my Quran

dont blame me for accepting the Quran as the infallible word of God.its superiority is clear.