New Testament
... All of you agree with one another so
that there may be no divisions among you
and that you may be perfectly united in
mind and thought. (1 Corinthians 1:10)
MAN'S CREATION
We created man from the purest
kind of clay, then made him a drop in a
secure receptacle, then formed the drop
into a clot, formed the clot into a lump,
formed the lump into bones, clothed the
bones in flesh, and then brought him into
being as another creature. Blessed be God,
the Best of Creators! (Qur'an, 23:12-14)
Old Testament
Your hands shaped me and made me... Remember
that You molded me like clay... [Did you
not] clothe me with skin and flesh, and
knit me together with bones and sinews?
(Job 10:8-11)
The Spirit of God has made me; the breath
of the Almighty gives me life. (Job 33:4)
I am just like you before God; I too have
been taken from clay. (Job 33:6)
THE SELFISH SELF WILL ALWAYS COMMAND EVIL
And [I swear by] the self
and what proportioned it, with depravity
or consciousness of God, he who purifies
it has succeeded. (Qur'an, 91:7-9)
But people are prone to selfish greed. If
you do good and guard against evil, God
is aware of what you do. (Qur'an, 4:128)
[Joseph said,] I do not say my self was
free from blame. The self indeed commands
to evil acts-except for those my Lord has
mercy on… (Qur'an, 12:53)
New Testament
Therefore do not let sin reign in your
mortal body, so that you obey its evil desires.
(Romans 6:12)
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious:
sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord,
jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition,
dissensions, factions, and envy; drunkenness,
orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did
before, that those who live like this will
not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians
5:19-21)
He [Jesus] went on: "What comes out of
a man is what makes him 'unclean.' For from
within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts,
sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander,
arrogance, and folly. All these evils come
from inside and make a man 'unclean.'" (Mark
7:20-23)
BAD CHARACTER TRAITS
But do not obey any vile swearer
of oaths, any backbiter, slandermonger,
impeder of good, evil aggressor, or gross,
coarse and, furthermore, despicable person,
simply because he possesses wealth and sons.
When Our Signs are recited to him, he says:
"Just myths of previous peoples!" (Qur'an,
68:10-15)
An evil generation succeeded them who neglected
the prayer and followed their appetites.
They will plunge into the Valley of Evil.
(Qur'an, 19:59)
New Testament
They have become filled with every kind
of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity.
They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit,
and malice. They are gossips, slanderers
... insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they
invent ways of doing evil; they disobey
their parents; they are senseless, faithless,
heartless, ruthless. (Romans 1:29-31)
Old Testament
They would not be like their forefathers-a
stubborn and rebellious generation, whose
hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits
were not faithful to Him. (Psalm 78:8)
Suppose he has a violent son who sheds
blood or does any of these other things
(though the father has done none of them):
He eats at the mountain shrines, defiles
his neighbor's wife, oppresses the poor
and needy, commits robbery, does not return
what he took in pledge, and looks to the
idols. He does detestable things. (Ezekiel
18:10-12)
He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so
that their hands achieve no success. He
catches the wise in their craftiness, and
the schemes of the wily are swept away.
(Job 5:12-13)
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