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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On 21 Apr 2007 23:42:06 -0700, "darylgene@aol.com"  wrote:   
      
   >On Apr 21, 11:14?pm, Peter Bruells  wrote:   
   >> "darylg...@aol.com"  writes:   
   >> > On Apr 16, 2:00?pm, Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > > Allah IS the Christian God.   
   >>   
   >> > > Tash is not.   
   >>   
   >> > > --   
   >> > > Steve Hayes   
   >>   
   >> > Does Allah exist as three persons in one Godhead? 	f not then I think   
   >> > it would be difficult to say they are the same.   
   >>   
   >> So do you think that Jews worship a different God then the Christians?   
   >   
   >I think their concept of God had become distorted, as I have discussed   
   >previously, and one of the reasons Jesus came was to correct and   
   >refine their concepts. Actually, if it comes right down to it, I am   
   >not sure all Christians are worshiping the same God. How much can the   
   >concept vary and yet remain essentially the same? I honestly do not   
   >know. I suppose if someone wished to consider them to be the same,   
   >they could. They could, in fact, as some do, consider all gods to be   
   >the same one. God seems more intent on seeing that I am doing and   
   >thinking the right sort of things than providing me with that sort of   
   >revelation. However, one of the things He leads me to do is to present   
   >Christ, sometimes even to Jewish people, I find it difficult to   
   >understand why that would be, if they were all the same.   
      
   So do you regard God as nothing more than a concept, exisiting only in the   
   human mind?   
      
      
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