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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:08:48 GMT, "William Cloud Hicklin"   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:42:45 -0400, darylgene@aol.com    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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?  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.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Not even all Christians believe that, or at least attach the same meaning   
   >to it.  Check out the Copts, Assyrians, and other Nestorian and   
   >Monophysite churches (which BTW hold completely opposite positions,   
   >neither of which fits comfortably with the Chalcedonian doctrine of the   
   >Trinity followed by the Latin and Greek worlds)   
      
   The Copts certainly believe that Allah is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and use   
   the same Symbol of Faith as Greek Orthodox Christians, though neither use the   
   "Apostles Creed".   
      
   But Tash does not resemble Allah in either Christian, Muslim or Jewish   
   understandings.   
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes   
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