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    It is not the case that Non-Muslims who fully understand Islam but choose not to accept it will be damned.

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    • 1.William Alston and Alvin Plantinga argue that religious belief systems each possess internally coherent epistemic frameworks that cannot be adjudicated from a neutral standpoint.
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    • 2.No outsider to a tradition can achieve the 'full understanding' required by P2, since understanding is partially constituted by participatory formation within the tradition.
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    • 3.Therefore, the threshold condition of 'fully understanding Islam' is epistemically unavailable to non-Muslims, rendering culpability judgments inapplicable.
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    • 1.John Hick's pluralist hypothesis holds that the major world religions are equally valid responses to the same ultimate transcendent reality, differing only in cultural-historical expression.
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    • 2.If salvific truth is distributed across traditions, then rejecting one tradition's formulation while sincerely accepting another cannot constitute culpable rejection of truth.
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    • 3.Damnation as a consequence of sincere, informed religious difference would make divine justice contingent on accidents of cultural birth, violating the moral attribute of impartiality classically ascribed to God.
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    • 1.Islamic Divine Law is the path that leads people to God.
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    • 2.Those who fully understand Islamic Divine Law have access to the truth.
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    • 3.Rejecting a truth one fully understands is culpable.
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