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darylgene@aol.com wrote:
> On Apr 21, 7:53?pm, "John W. Kennedy" wrote:
>> darylg...@aol.com wrote:
>> > On Apr 16, 2:00?pm, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>
>> >> Allah IS the Christian God.
>>
>> >> Tash is not.
>>
>> > Does Allah exist as three persons in one Godhead? ??If not then I think
>> > it would be difficult to say they are the same. One would think at
>> > least the Apostle's Creed would be necessary to define a Christian,
>> > otherwise (as Dorothy Sayers noted) you just have chaos.
>>
>> It doesn't matter as long as Islam clearly insists that Abraham spoke to
>> Allah and that Jesus was sent by Allah. It is not necessary (or even
>> possible) for a Christian to maintain that Mohammed was wholly right,
>> but it cuts off all possibility of reasoned debate to say that Mohammed
>> did not mean what he said. I would excise the Mormons from the world of
>> (shall we say?) El Shaddai before Islam.
>
> Why does it not matter? It would seem to be a different sort of entity
> altogether, at least to me, that took His creation into Himself as
> compared to one that sent someone (Jesus) to speak for Him.
Would you say that the followers of the Arian heresy followed a different
God? Or that Christians do not believe in the God of the Old Testament? If
you would, then I'd have to say that we're just arguing about different
things, here. Muslims and Christians (and Jews) certainly understand God
differently and disagree - sometimes violently - on the nature of God, but
I agree with John that since Islam _does_ say Allah is the same God as the
God of the Jews & Christians, then it must be so. Just as Christians say
they worship the same God as the God of Judaism.
--
derek
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