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- But I do think God is Y-w-h is Allah.
- Christian God and Muslim Allah really ARE the same god, as both
faiths originated from the old testament and deviated at a later point.
A couple different people expressed this kind of sentiment, so I'm
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Before I make any other comments, please allow me to ask a question of you: Is it indeed heresy to refer to Jesus as "God Incarnate"?
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And the difference does not begin with Christ. Genesis chapter 3 is the first of some 330 Messianic prophecies. (I've heard the number put from 200 to 400, but 330 is the one I hear most frequently.) Having never read the Quran (please forgive me if I've butchered the spelling), I'm guessing that there are no such prophecies of a Messiah who was both man and God who would bear the punishment for the sins of mankind.
Also, if I understand correctly, the Quran teaches that Abraham and Ishmael went to Mecca and built the Kaba (again, pardon what I'm sure is a misspelling, and I could be totally off-base about the Abraham and Ishmael thing). If I'm not wrong about that, then there's another major difference between our O.T. and the Quran.
As both Christians and Muslims believe that God is all-powerful, then we probably both believe that He is mighty enough to get His exact word to us. That being the case, both Christians and Muslims cannot be ( ... )
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As I believe (for many reasons) in the infallibility of the Bible, I therefore believe it's assertions that:
A) All other Gods than Yahweh are false Gods, and
B) Jesus is the only way to salvation.
It's not a matter of hating anyone else or wishing to lord it over them. It's simply a matter of what I believe to be the truth, and what said truth compels me to do.
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