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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:48 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Desperate times call for pig fat!
But that's the thing, they're not the same God. Jews believe in a single
God
who chose them to keep his laws. Jews hold that anyone can enter into
heaven.
Christians believe that God became human, was the messiah, lived among
humans, (did not bring the promised redemption as messiah), died and
rose
back to heaven. Only someone who has accepted this can go to heaven.
(i.e.
you have to accept Jesus to go to heaven).
A Jew (religious, that is) can never believe in the Christian God. A
Christian basically has to believe in the Jewish God as he's the root of
their God, even if they've 'changed' it some. Now I can claim that the
Muslim God withholds redemption only for Muslims but without a direct
reference I can't. I can claim a lot of stuff about the differences, but
I
wouln't. What I can say is that to be accepted to heaven you have to
accept
Muhamed as the final prophet, etc. i.e. give up the laws that God gave
to
accept new ones. What Jew would believe that God screwed up and sent a
new
set of laws? What Christian would believe that God screwed up and sent a
new
set of laws? What Muslim would believe that the laws of the Jews or
Christians are correct?
Bottom line is that there are major differences between each of the 3
major
monotheistic religions and the blanket claim of "all the same God" is
patently false. It's said without thought of its full ramifications.
> Oh, I'm not that out of the loop, John :) And of course they all stem
> from common religious ancestry. It's fun to watch the blood drain
from
> Pat Robertson's face when someone suggests that the same God that
> suicide bombers (or pilots) are hoping to please by killing innocents
is
> the same God that loves to recieve tithes from regular viewers. Oh,
and
> heals the goiters of special contributors.
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