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   Bree to Larry Swain   
   Re: Inklings and Islam is there a connec   
   07 May 07 02:29:29   
   
   XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: no@no.com   
      
   On Fri, 04 May 2007 17:19:50 -0600, Larry Swain wrote:   
   /snip/   
      
   > Staying   
   > just within the Christian fold Pentecostals and Baptists and Anglicans   
   > all view the practice of the Christian life and how God manifests   
   > himself in this world and even the central message of Christ is vastly   
   > different terms.  This, by these definitions, would indicate that these   
   > three bodies worship different gods and different christs.  You may say,   
   > "Well, yes, they do" which then just gets us to saying that everyone   
   > worships then a god of his or her own choosing and making and there is   
   > no such thing as THE God who revealed himself to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.   
      
   If we started from "it's all in Plato", that might seem backwards. If   
   there's got to be a Form of the Good, then there can be only one. How   
   Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were attributing the voices they heard -- would   
   be another question.   
      
      
   Bree   
      
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