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   Christopher Kreuzer (spamgard@blueyonder.co.uk) wrote:   
   > Bill Baldwin wrote:   
   >> Larry Swain (theswain@operamail.com) wrote:   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >>> If I worship the God who made the   
   >>> world and appeared to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses and call   
   >>> him by the same name as a Muslim and Jew, then it seems to me   
   >>> that we're talking about the same god.   
   >>   
   >> Then we get right back to the question about someone who claims   
   >> to worship that God as one among many, or who claims to worship   
   >> that God as one who also appeared under the names "Satan" and   
   >> "Baal" and "Osiris". As far as I can tell, your reply to this   
   >> question has been to dismiss it as ridiculous   
   >   
   > I'm not clear here. Are you saying that God only appeared once   
   > (through Jesus) and the rest of the time he was on holiday? Or did   
   > he try several times and change his approach each time according   
   > to the culture and times?   
   >   
      
   I'm saying he has appeared definitively in Christ. And in times prior   
   he appeared to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and various prophets.   
   I'm saying that to reject part of that definition is to redefine God   
   in a way that he declines to be redefined. And I'm saying that to add   
   "Satan" or "Baal" or "Osiris" to that definition is to redefine God   
   etc.   
      
   --   
   Bill Baldwin   
   http://bettercovenant.wordpress.com/   
      
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