What Does Salvation Accomplish?
Balance or resolution?
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In Islam, salvation depends on submission, obedience, and God’s mercy outweighing guilt.
This leaves an open question: Has guilt been dealt with—or only measured?
If justice is real, mercy must be grounded in something more than hope or balance.
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Questions about ethical consistency
Some Qur’anic passages emphasize freedom of belief: “There is no compulsion in religion.”
— Qur’an 2:256
Other passages command violence against unbelievers: “When the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them…”
— Qur’an 9:5
“I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. So strike [them] upon the necks…”
— Qur’an 8:12
Islamic theology often explains this through abrogation (naskh), where later revelations override earlier ones.
This raises an important question: If later commands cancel earlier moral instruction, how does one determine which reflects God’s enduring character?
A system that requires moral reversal over time invites careful ethical examination.
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