predestination Flashcards
1
Q
quotes
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- ‘only what God has decreed will happen to use’
- ‘God does not change the condition of a people [for the worse] unless they change what is in themselves’
- ‘we will make smooth for him the path of Ease’
- ‘those who believe and do good deeds will have their reward with their God’
2
Q
Sunni belief
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- Allah has already decided everything that will happen
- written in the book of decrees
- Allah created us so we live how he decides
- God’s will so powerful he is able to make anything happen
- humans don’t have the freedom to change their destiny but we have choice over our actions
3
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Shi’a belief
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- God knows everything that will happen but hasn’t decided
- means we have free will
- God is creator of time so not bound by it, God can see everything that happens in past, present and future
- he knows what choices we will make but we still have free will to make the choices
- we act freely, God just knows what we will do
