Not to interrupt,
thomas malloy wrote:
>
> Steven Johnson posted;
> >
> >
> >So, you know for an absolute fact that Allah isn't
> God?
>
> Different name; yod hay vav hay as opposed to Allah,
> different legal
> system; Sharia verses Torah, different treatment of
> women; no need to
> comment further on that, eh? different outcomes, the
> nations whose
> legal systems are based on British Common Law are
> first and second
> world economies and democracies, the Islamist
> nations are, with the
> exception of Turkey, all third world dictatorships.
>
Same God, different interpretation.
The Jewish/christian god has NO name, this is why
He/She is referred to as God. Allah is arabic for
god, so the translation is the same.
Brief (and simplified) History
Judaism was first.
Some jews believed that the messiah came and became
Christians, other jews continued to wait for his
arrival.
Some Jews followed a new prophet and became Muslims,
others retained their original belief structure.
The government is unrelated to religion, rather it has
to do with how religious rule was enforced.
You could base similar arguments on the differences
between Christian and Jewish countries or even between
different Christian denominations.
As for prophecy, that's all in the interpretation,
which never seems to happen until after the event has
occured. If you want to convince me, you are going to
have to find a very specific prophecy, something that
says "on this day this will happen to these people"
and you are going to have to find it before that date
and have it witnessed in some fashion.
Merlyn
Magickal Engineer and Technical Metaphysicist
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