Do you agree that the Judeo-Christian God is not the same as the Muslim God?

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captainrick said:
There is only one God. Muslims simply use the translation of “God” in their language. BUT they have a very different view of the nature of God. Many of them have a very negative and violent view.
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You haven’t spent much time with christian fundamentalists, have you?
 
Ccc 841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.
 
For many Muslims, I have no doubt that Islam is the window through which they experience God. However, given the explosive violence in the Middle East, and which follows immigrant communities in France and Britain, I also have no doubt that something else is being worshiped. The obscene reprisals that follow every time Muhammad is pictured, or even mentioned without deference, is evidence of nothing less than idolatry. The archaic term used for Muslims, Mohammedans or Mahomets, is more accurate. These people blowing up others and taking hostages, or forcing their adopted homelands to adopt to them-- they are not submitting themselves to God, they are submitting themselves to their own pride, their own ego-worship.
 
See? Scimitars shouldn’t even be legal. Who needs a scimitar?!

In all seriousness, though, I was referring to those who are responsible for attacks like those on the Danish cartoonists back in 2005 and more recently, on that French magazine. I have no contempt for Islam, only coercion. My favorite sitcom is Little Mosque on the Prairie, for Pete’s sake. 😃
 
Pardon my stupidity, is a scimitar a special kind of knife? You have a picture of one?
 
Oh my, if I find one in a yard sale, should I ask if it’s been broken in?😃
 
Phenomethomist said:
Luther, who thought reason was a whore.
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Offtopic:

That quote can be a bit odd if you don’t know the background:

Luther thought that reading was "God’s most precious gift ", but because of sin, we could’t use reason to probe revealed theological truths with certainty - instead we should rely on what God had revealed to us.

“Reason cannot think correctly about God; only faith can do so. A man thinks correctly about God when he believes God’s Word. But when he wants to measure and to believe God apart from the Word, with his own reason, he does not have the truth about God in his heart and therefore cannot think or judge correctly about Him” (LW 26:238)

But your previous quote is pithy and to the point 🙂
 
I have an ottoman in the living room but need to find a decent scimitar to accent it!
 
Son_of_Niall said:
What has this have to do with the topic of the OP?
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As we seem to be playing the game of “mincing words” I thought you could use another meaning for two more. Did I spoil your “train” of thought?

Did you ever give thought to the saying “actions speak louder than words”! Well, there you are then. :rolleyes:
 
grotto said:
As we seem to be playing the game of “mincing words” I thought you could use another meaning for two more. Did I spoil your “train” of thought?

Did you ever give thought to the saying “actions speak louder than words”! Well, there you are then. :rolleyes:
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Does that include the drone killings of wedding parties in Yeman?
Our hands are hardly not bloody.
Why don’t we take our Pope’s advice and respect other religions?
 
Son_of_Niall said:
Does that include the drone killings of wedding parties in Yeman?
Our hands are hardly not bloody.
Why don’t we take our Pope’s advice and respect other religions?
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Well, did you ever stop to think that offense might have been taken because one was not invited?

Who’s hands are hardly not bloody? Not even a little bit?

Why don’t we respect. Why do you respect? Describe what attribute you respect.
 
Well, what do you know! You take a poke at something enough and pretty soon you hit a button!

Never fails to bring out what might be under the rock.

To answer the title of this thread? I say I do not agree.
 
grotto said:
Well, did you ever stop to think that offense might have been taken because one was not invited?

Who’s hands are hardly not bloody? Not even a little bit?

Why don’t we respect. Why do you respect? Describe what attribute you respect.
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Argue with the Pope, you have ‘Catholic’ in your religious identification.
asianews.it/news-en/Pope:-Never-before-has-dialogue-with-Islam-been-so-necessary,-for-mutual-knowledge-and-acceptance-of-differences,-to-counter-violence-33278.html
 
grotto said:
Well, what do you know! You take a poke at something enough and pretty soon you hit a button!

Never fails to bring out what might be under the rock.

To answer the title of this thread? I say I do not agree.
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And who, or what, pray tell is “under the rock”?
 
If they reject Jesus Christ, who is God, can they believe in the true God? Could you or I believe in the true God if we rejected our Savior?
 
KendraDZ1902 said:
Jews worship the true God and they don’t worship Jesus and the Holy Spirit. 🤷
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That doesn’t even make sense. How can you not believe in the Triune God and believe in the true God at the same time? Short of invincible ignorance (which is very hard to believe in this age of internet and Wikipedia) how can a person of good will not know about the trinity, or even our Savior alone?
 
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