Asalamulaikum,
I am a young person in the west who was brought up agnostically. Most of my cosmological questions as a child were answered by my parents in a scientific way, with the admission that, e.g. “many people believe that God is responsible for X or Y” or “there are those who consider X or Y to be an aspect of the will of God”. I have had many close friends in the three major Abrahamic religions, with varying degrees of reverence. In conversations regarding the intersections and differences between creationist and scientific explanations for questions about the world and the origin of the cosmos, my deeply Christian friend has explained that, in his view, God exists outside of time and space, but is omnipotent. He believes that if there is other life in the cosmos of similar faculty to that of humanity (something I am very sure is the case), that God has also given them information and religion, and that they, too, may reach heaven. He explained to me that, where I understand the “beginning” of our universe to be the result of an unstable, higher-dimensional spacetime “breaking” into two or more lower-dimensional universes (one of which is our 3 dimensions of space and single dimension of time) for the same reason that water runs downhill in the interest of reaching a state of lower energy, he holds that God brought about this first transition. I don’t think that these two explanations are necessarily separate from each other, and in the spirit of educating myself about theism, I have begun to study the scriptures pertinent to the Abrahamic religions. I have been reading English translations of the Quran (online, as I do not wish to hold a copy of the Quran with potentially unclean hands). And this line is perplexing me, regarding those who have “persisted in disbelief”: “Allah has sealed their hearts and their hearing, and their sight is covered. They will suffer a tremendous punishment.” -Mustafa Khattab
What is the significance of this statement? I have persisted in disbelief in that I have never been convinced that I have a “soul” through which I will have subjective experience after my death. Does this mean that regardless of how I try to understand Allah during my life, that I will never be capable of truly believing? Will I thus be cast into a hell of some kind at the time of my death?
I apologize in advance if this question is difficult to understand. For what it is worth, I hope that you and your loved ones are healthy and without emptiness.
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