Do Jews and Muslims pray to the one true God?

[Reuben_J]

This thread has gone way off topic from the original intent of the OP.

 

[Mystic_Warrior]

I know what it means, I am better educated than you because I think for myself. This is from New Advent-a Catholic source.

“To understand the word anathema”, says Vigouroux, “we should first go back to the real meaning of herem of which it is the equivalent. Herem comes from the word haram, to cut off, to separate, to curse, and indicates that which is cursed and condemned to be cut off or exterminated, whether a person or a thing, and in consequence, that which man is forbidden to make use of.” This is the sense of anathema in the following passage from Deuteronomy 7:26: "Neither shalt thou bring anything of the idol into thy house, lest thou become an anathema like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an anathema." Nations, individuals, animals, and inanimate objects may become anathema, i.e. cursed and devoted to destruction. It was thus that the people inhabiting the Promised Land were anathematized as Moses says (Deuteronomy 7:1, 2): “When . . . the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them.” When a people was anathematized by the Lord, they were to be entirely exterminated. "

Sounds like I am correct and your dear wife is condemned by your church to be entirely exterminated.,.

And you support it, think about it.

Oh, Frank. You forgot to include it all. We can find it here:

newadvent.org/cathen/01455e.htm

In the New Testament anathema no longer entails death, but the loss of goods or exclusion from the society of the faithful. St. Paul frequently uses this word in the latter sense. In the Epistle to the Romans (9:3) he says: “For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren, who are my kinsmen according to the flesh”, i.e. “I should wish to be separated and rejected of Christ, if by that means I would procure the salvation of my brethren.” And again, using the word in the same sense, he says (Galatians 1:9): “If any one preach to you a gospel besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.” But he who is separated from God is united to the devil, which explains why St. Paul, instead of anathematizing, sometimes delivers a person over to Satan

So, foiled again. Leave.

 

[Rachel_Malloy]

This thread is now closed.

Thanks to all who have participated.

God bless-

Rachel