# Christian God & Muslim god

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-god-muslim-god/380450>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 14, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-god-muslim-god/380450 "2006-11-14T22:45:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-god-muslim-god/380450/41 "2006-11-16T23:42:51Z")

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> [@According to Pliny](#):
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> The “correct term” may indeed be different in Catholic doctrine, but what I wrote is quite correct in English. This confusion about authority of language expertise is common enough, but still erroneous. Many an elementary student has made me grin with a haughty comment such as, “You say ‘rust’, but technically that is iron oxide.”

No need to get defensive. The point is not that you were using a term with insufficient “authority of language expertise”, but that you were using a somewhat vague ordinary-language synonym of a recognized technical term instead of the technical term itself, so we weren’t entirely sure what you meant by it. The misunderstanding has now been straightened out.

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-god-muslim-god/380450/42 "2006-11-17T04:21:30Z")

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[QUOTE=According to Pliny]  
The “correct term” may indeed be different in Catholic doctrine, but what I wrote is quite correct in English.  
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But in this instance the English word “intercede” has a specific theological meaning which is not equal to the English word “intervene”. As **Diogenes** and **Kimstu** point out, what you said was misleading.

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**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-god-muslim-god/380450/43 "2006-11-17T23:24:54Z")

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[QUOTE=Cunctator]  
But in this instance the English word “intercede” has a specific theological meaning which is not equal to the English word “intervene”. As **Diogenes** and **Kimstu** point out, what you said was misleading.  
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Yeah, an Intervention of the saints makes it sound like they come down from heaven and take you to an AA meeting. 😉

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