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   From: theswain@operamail.com   
      
   darylgene@aol.com wrote:   
   > On Apr 24, 4:53�am, "�jevind L�ng"  wrote:   
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   >> skrev i meddelandetnews:1177374791.482868.   
   16490@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...   
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   >>Conceivably, there could be Christians who think that *you* are a heretic.   
   >>The knife cuts both ways.   
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   >>�jevind   
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   > I am certain of that, I was told that I could not be a Christian and   
   > believe in evolution. To those people I am not a Christian, I respect   
   > that, that is where they have made the distinction. There has to be a   
   > line between A and not A, between a Christian and not a Christian,   
   > otherwise the terms are meaningless. I draw that distinction at the   
   > first two creeds, which is likely not where Christ does, I have not   
   > been given that information.   
   >  I wasn't really focusing there though, my question concerned to what   
   > extent two concepts of God can vary before one says they are different   
   > Gods. It seems to me, that there is an existential difference between   
   > the Christian God and God as percieved by Mohammed and the rest of   
   > Islam; that they have a different, and exclusive, nature. To clarify   
   > then, could the God presented in the creeds be the same God presented   
   > in the Koran? That way perhaps we can avoid the "who is a Christian"   
   > question.   
      
   Yes.  Christianity says simply that Judaism has not received the full   
   revelation of the Godhead, and since Islam worships the same God as   
   Judaism, it too has not the full revelation of the Godhead.  Thus they   
   see darkly what the Christian sees fully.  Of course, Islam claims the   
   same thing: the full revelation of God is complete with Mohammed, and   
   the Christians simply misunderstand their own revelation in Jesus and   
   Judaism just is an incomplete revelation.   
      
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