There is no spoon.
Only when it hits it like a big-a pizza pie. The other day it hit mine like a spicy Slim Jim and that wasn’t too bad.
Or you could be Muslim, since Jesus is a prophet and son of Allah.
You act as if this is some strange thing, but your last paragraph pretty much explains it.
Oneness Pentecostals who do not believe in the Trinity. But, because they believe in Jesus being God, it’s not the same God. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Jesus isn’t God at all. Yet their God is not the same G-d, either.
When you have fundamentally different ideas of what the being you call God has done and his character, it’s really hard to see them as the same entity. A common loophole is to think that they are the same God, but that the people who believe differently than you just misunderstand. That’s the common Christian belief about Jews. That you worship God as revealed in the Tanakh, while we have more revelation. Same thing with Islam–Muslims have more revelation than we do. But not everyone buys the loopholes.
The moon god stuff is nonsense (since it would apply as much to Elohim). But the idea that the Abrahamic religions worship a different God makes sense, because their ideas of who God is are just different.
Possible. But probably considerably more rare. It is a bit of a standard dogma of Islam as the most recent of the revealed Abrahamic faiths that Jews, Muslims and Christians all worship the same God.
The standard pattern generally seems to be that modern Christians mostly seem to regard Jews and Christians as sharing the same God, but often exclude Muslims. Many Orthodox Jews at least ( following Maimonides ) regard Jews and Muslims as sharing the same God, but exclude Christians ( due to the issue of Trinitarianism among other things ). Muslims, a little ironically perhaps, tend to be the most ecumenical on this one tiny aspect of religious faith.
Actually Jewish and Muslim views of God are rather close to each other. As are their shared emphasis on a legalistic faith.
Well, Islam is the youngest of the Three. Therefore more mindful of it’s debt to those predecessors who invented this stuff.
The “idiots” merely take note of the fact that Catholics pray to Mary, a practice that BY DEFINITION means that they are worshiping her. Catholics can claim otherwise until they’re blue in the face–it does them no good. Actions speak louder than words.
On the issue of Muslims, it is self-evident that their god is not God. If it were, they would be Christians, not Muslims.
:rolleyes:
You are either an asshole or trolling. You can claim otherwise until you’re blue in the face, but your words speak as loudly as, well, your words.
The fuck?
Sure, The People of the Book are to be held in esteem, so says the text. But not interpreted in anyway that may affect the interests of a true believer. Just like every single other faith actually practices to every other religion, sect or cult.
Would those be the same Christians who consider that Catholics and Orthodox aren’t Christians?
Or LDS?
Many Protestants include their earthly parents in their prayers, so Protestants are “ancestor worshipers.”
Muslims worship Allah, who created Adam and Eve, flooded the world save for Noah, destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Do you imagine there were two separate Gods who performed all of these actions in parallel?
(Do you imagine that Jews worship a different God than Christians do? “It it were, they would be Christians, not Jews,” by the same logic.)
This is the Pit, and you’re an ignorant fuck.
Poe? Is that you?
Serious question, fwiw.
Your unkind response is not surprising. It has become sadly common for standing up for the truth to be considered rude or worse.
Thank you for your candor. I withdraw my question.
If you were even half as smart as a new-born insect, you would understand that praying FOR someone is not the same as praying TO someone.
Allah (otherwise known as “god”) did NOT do all those things. On the contrary, God did those things. Muslims try to claim that their false god is the true God. (Note–Muslims are far from the only group to worship a false god. Many so-called “Christians” do the same thing.)
And by the way, profanity is the refuge of the ignorant and unimaginative.
Malysia, and some other places I think, have made it illegal for Christians to use the word “Allah”. Silly thing, but since allah is just the word for god, it must mean that the word refers to a specific God, which is not the same as the one worshipped by Christians.
And they ask God/Allah why he drinks…
And sometimes it is the only response the ignorant and unimaginative deserve.
Flyer, I’m a little confused. How can you tell the difference between a false god and a non false god?