XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: no@onoe.com   
      
   On 25 Apr 2007 19:16:54 GMT, Bill Baldwin wrote:   
      
   > Derek Broughton (news@pointerstop.ca) wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > (By the way, I wonder if we're boring the good folks of   
   > rec.arts.books.tolkien and alt.books.inklings. I recall the original   
   > poster saying he couldn't get replies via alt.books.cs-lewis and so   
   > wanted the follow-ups to the other groups preserved. But this   
   > discussion has taken us perhaps in a direction that is no longer on-   
   > topic in those other groups.)   
   >   
   > Anyway, I don't agree with that. Let me see if I can locate the point   
   > of our disagreement. Suppose a man comes up to you and says, "The God   
   > I worship is the God who appeared to Abraham. She later revealed   
   > herself as Semiramis to the Assyrians and the Virgin Mary. Some have   
   > worshiped this God under the name 'Lucifer' (whom others have wrongly   
   > claimed to be in opposition to the God of Abraham). There are other   
   > names and manifestations as well."   
   >   
   > Since that man _does_ say the God he worships is the same God as the   
   > God of the Jews & Christians, must it be so? My answer, obviously, is   
   > no. It's a massive fallacy of equivocation.   
      
      
   Working back towards topic, suppose someone claims that he worships a God   
   who appeared to most Narnians as a Lion, to the Dawn Treader people as a   
   Lamb, to Orual as the Mountain God, and to others as a man in Jerusalem.   
      
      
   Bree   
      
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