The Importance Of Theological Issues

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Most of the theological issues that defined by either rational or traditional sects can be seen as problem, because they do not mentioned in the detail in the scripture. Therefor each side of these ideas can lead a believer to heresy. In this case the need of reason and philosophical discourses is unavoidable. In what follows I am going to show the problematic nature of some main theological issues and their significant:
1. When it come to the analysis of the nature of the Qur’an a problem arises. If we take the Qur’an to be created then it is going to be time bound. But on the other hand, if we take to be uncreated then its eternal with God and it compromises the oneness of the God. So either way it turns us to be problematic and its theological significant is to come up with the theory that does not compromise either the eternality of the Qur’an meta historicity of the Qur’an does not compromise the oneness of God.
2. The dilemma raise in the fact that if we take the human free, then God is not sovereign, because humans are
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The relation between faith and work: the dilemma goes like this. One the one hand if we take works as vital in defining the faith, then it runs the danger of making almost all Muslims non-Muslim and all faithful unfaithful. Because usually people are ordinary people and their real behaviors do not confront/conform to the ideal standard of the proper act prescribed by religion. It is exactly what happened by Kharejites, because they define faith in terms of acts and the outcome was that they consider all Muslim but themselves as non-Muslim. On the other hand if we take acts to be irrelevant to faith, then it makes a very important if not the important aspect of the religion either/ideal or less important. So, the theological significant is to come off/up with a theory which on the one hand does not compromise does not make all Muslims non-Muslims and on the other way does not compromise the vitality of acts in being

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