so my saying that he failed is correct from the Jewish side, but not the
Christian side. On the other hand, the need to accept Jesus to be 'saved' IS
correctly represented.
Point is, if it's all the same God then there would all be the same rules,
etc. There aren't.
> You do know that you aren't exactly representing the Christian and Muslim
> 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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