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I guess we have a different concept of forgiveness. Your portrayal of the almighty Creator is different from the Quran. We believe in an all-merciful and often-forgiving God. Prophet Daniel gave the same description of God in Daniel 9:9. What you have been showing me is anti-that, a merciless God who would punish a child stealing a lollipop with the same punishment as a rapist or a mass murderer. And no matter how you spin it, the picture is still an unforgiving God who insists on being paid with the blood of an innocent man, payment for the sins we have committed, a foreign idea that had never been heard before till Christians came along with it. 

What Jesus taught on salvation is the same as what Daniel or Ezekiel taught in the Jewish Bible. It continues with the Muslims, who are taught by the last messenger sent by the God of Jesus.

Peace and blessings be upon all the prophets mentioned.

Since when did I say God would punish a child stealing a lollipop with the same kind of punishment meted out to a mass murderer? When taken out of context, my comment sounds cruel. You failed to take account of the age of accountability for children, meaning, at what age are children responsible for their own sins?

While the term age of accountability isn't found in the Bible, the principle is. As long as a child isn't able to distinguish between good and evil, he or she isn't responsible for the corruption inherited from Adam or the sins he or she personally commits.

God has a special love for children. Ps 139:13-16; Matt 18:2-4; Matt 10:14-16. Although the children were infected with sin because of Adam's orginal rebellion, God didn't condemn them because they had "no knowledge of good or evil."