121. Does God use a scale of balances to measure a person’s good and bad works to determine whether they will go to heaven or to hell? (Terazi)
the Bible No
Yes the Quran
the Bible's Perspective
Romans 3:20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Ephesians 2:8-9for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast.
2 Timothy 1:9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
Titus 3:4-5But when the kindness of God our Saviour and his love towards mankind appeared, not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
the Quran's Perspective
Al-A'raf (The Heights) 7:8-9And the weighing [of deeds] that Day will be the truth. So those whose scales are heavy - it is they who will be the successful. And those whose scales are light - they are the ones who will lose themselves for what injustice they were doing toward Our verses.
Al-Mu'minoon (The Believers) 23:102-103And those whose scales are heavy [with good deeds] - it is they who are the successful. But those whose scales are light - those are the ones who have lost their souls, [being] in Hell, abiding eternally.
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