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In reply to the discussion: 10 Reasons to believe Jesus Preached Islam [View all]sprinkleeninow
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I lost my way in this thread.
I can only answer for myself, to the best of my limited ability, as I have admitted.
If, as a 'believer', you come to an understanding
that, bc you acknowledge 'God', you have enlightenment that He, as having no beginning, and as 'having the' and 'being the' creative force of everything that had, or has or will continue to have being, 'in simplicity'-» He was, is and continues to be in all. There is no 'time'/instance when He never was.
And so, as plainly as I can express, if He has been in all since 'in principle'/Genesis, He arranged for all the worship of gods, goddesses, sun, moon, stars, 'tree stumps', etc. to prelude 'in the fullness of time' the Incarnation. As a 'believer', I hold this things did not take Him by surprise. I hold it was deliberate. But not a reason to confuse His Crown of Creation, humankind.
Cave drawings, etc. can 'hint at' those living then may have had an inner knowing of spirituality [God] that was not defined as we know 'God' presently. Like an evolution. If He is the Author and Completion of our lives, He put His being/likeness in all. So it could reasonably be that those predating us had a veiled knowledge of Him. Not all, but some may have been more openly receptive than others and did worship, but not with knowledge of Whom.
I don't know what else to say. 🤗