God and Allah

Bi ismilahi rahmani raheem

Scientifically speaking all it would mean is that your cell regeneration stays at the same rate and does not decay, nothing Godly about that just something God decided to do for someone.

you assuming they are god becouse of it is your leap in logic not mine...i.e i don't need to believe that a person who does not die is a god also.

i should rather state its not Godly to be immortal as every one of us will be given this gift in the next life, will we be gods at that point in time?


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myahya wrote: Ron, A monotheist never believes that a mortal is another God and can be another God. Otherwise, I would not call him or her a monotheist. But, do you really believe if a mortal lives for more than what you think is ordinary, then that mortal would be another God? Then I would say how small your God is ... !

Well, it's a matter of semantics, isn't it?  Polytheistic religions usually ascribe different powers to their various gods, the Greeks had their demigods and their heroes and so on.  Where you draw the line between gods and humans is a matter of definition.  It just seems to me that immortality (or virtual immortality) is a pretty big one in the list of defining characteristics of a god.  That's why we contrast gods with "mortals".

It just seems to me that immortality (or virtual immortality) is a pretty big one in the list of defining characteristics of a god. 

Immortality is intrinsically one of the characteristics of Allah.

It seems to me that we're talking about a full-blown miracle, not just something that "God decided to do for someone". 

Prophets have shown full-blown miracles. Allah decided to do for them. None of them performed those miracles inherently.

myahya wrote: Prophets have shown full-blown miracles. Allah decided to do for them. None of them performed those miracles inherently.

Yes of course, but my point is that miracles are extremely unusual events which would not go unnoticed or unreported.