Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

people of the book = same god

 

What book?

Allah may be or equal God, and the definitions/descriptions of the Islamic God and the Christian God as supreme beings may sound and seem the same. Maybe they're even meant to be/mean the same things. But beyond the basic definitions, they are not, could not be the same.

They're not the same philosophically, they don't make the same demands or requirements or have the same expectations their followers, they don't espouse the same treatment of "infidels," they don't have the same relationships with those who believe in them, and they don't have the same beliefs or explanations about the Trinity.

Islam also categorically does not believe in the divinity of Christ. Ergo, even with all other things being equal, no, Muslims are not worshiping the same God.

 

Judaism also categorically does not believe in the divinity of Christ. I guess we know how you feel about Jews then.

 

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Yes, they are. So are Jewish people. I know that blows your narrow-minded thought process, but basic idea that there is only one god connects Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

 

This is accurate. When you live in the West, though, it’s easy to act eccumenical about it.

 

Do Muslims worship the same God that Abraham did? Yes.

Do Jews worship the same God that Abraham did? Yes.

Do Christians worship the same God that Abraham did? Yes.

But they don't all worship the same God?

 

We now have Alma on board with Jews and Muslims worshiping a different God. All fucking historical evidence to the contrary.

Awesome.

 

People of the Book | My Jewish Learning

 

It's easy for you to wallow in your ignorance. What she wrote is not accurate at all. You've just got your head shoved so far up your Bible that you can't see reality.

 

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Jim Bakker, Christian, pastor and without rebuke by the established Christian churches. He must be doing it right.

 

All three religions have Allah/Yahweh as a father God.

Christianity has a “triune” God that includes the Jesus and the Holy Spirit. So there are differences. I don’t think that’s in debate.

Are you really into the inter-faith conversation in America - I know people who are - or just generally ecumenical?

It’s very accurate to write that Islam doesn’t ascribe to the divinity of Jesus.