views correctly, right?
Not that I particularly care.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:47 PM
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.
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