Here is a Jewish perspective on “ethical monotheism”:
Ethical monotheism means two things:
- There is one God from whom emanates one morality for all humanity.
- God’s primary demand of people is that they act decently toward one another.
Ethical Monotheism is contrary to the position of islam.
Islam states that ethics are subjective, therefore the slaying of 600 jewish POWs was justified and in the defence of God.
Let me ask you this, were those jews polytheists? what was the justification for their slaughter?
while I do not agree with everything that is written there, nevertheless it does appear to support my original contention that there is NOTHING that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) did that can be considered immoral according to the teachings of the Bible on morality.
It does no such thing, the Bible does not support war with people based on their acceptance or rejection of YHWH.
The reason for this is plain, the Torah is silent on the gods of other peoples.
Are you going to tell me that people who believed in Baal alone and not partnered with anyone else are not
monotheists?
The Quran however has set an eternal barrier between muslims and everyone else.
The reason for this is because the Quran explicitly condemns the beliefs of others.
There is a very fine line between judaism and islam, and in this I suspect a great evil force.
The line is this - YHWH forbids adherents from worshipping
implicitly false gods. There is in this an
implicit condemnation of goy beliefs, but is limited to restricting a jew from accepting the practice of a goy.
Islam on the other hand
explicitly states that people who do not worship Allah are transgressors and worthy of punishment because Allah is the only god.
Thus rendering muslims in a constant state of war with all others.