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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   Opus the Penguin wrote:   
   > John W. Kennedy (jwkenne@attglobal.net) wrote:   
   >   
   >> You could probably find Moon-landing deniers, too. Nevertheless,   
   >> educated Christians, and Lewis in particular, still know that Islam   
   >> believes in the same God that Jews and Christians do.   
   >   
   > I am an educated Christian. I deny that. I believe Lewis would too.   
   > Christians believe in a God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--three   
   > distinct persons, one God. They stipulate that there is no other God.   
   >   
   > Lewis specifically denied that it was possible to receive Jesus as   
   > merely a good man. He must be received as God or not at all.   
      
   None of which alters the fact that Moslems, following Mohammed's own   
   teachings, expressly worship the God of Abraham. If you wish to maintain   
   that Moslems do not worship the same God as Christians, then you must be   
   willing to maintain, too, that Christians do not worship the same God as   
   the Jews -- and that makes utter nonsense of the entire Christian faith.   
      
   That Moslems do not believe all the same things /about/ God that   
   Christians do does not mean that they do not worship Him.   
      
   --   
   John W. Kennedy   
   "The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless show, in   
   their sophisticated and ingenious new ways, that, just as /Pooh/ is   
   suffused with humanism, our humanism itself, at this late date, has   
   become full of /Pooh./"   
      -- Frederick Crews.  "Postmodern Pooh", Preface   
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