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To: reasonisfaith
The god of Islam says it’s morally necessary to lie. The Christian God forbids lying. Therefore they cannot be the same. God forbids murder, not killing.

Islam forbids lying, not taqiyya. See how that works? The OT God and Allah both have separate rules for how you deal with people inside the community, and how you deal with outsiders. I assure you, modern day Islam is closer to Deuteronomy than anything you're living. Now, if you're saying that the OT is wrong about what God is "really" like, I won't argue. I've found that everyone who believes in God is also such an expert as to His innermost self that they are practically soulmates. It's almost as if every believer has his very own God, and it's astonishingly compatible with their own precious self.

306 posted on 05/05/2014 6:48:44 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady
Apples and oranges comparison.

The word translated (or mistranslated) “kill” in Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17 is ratsach, which has the specific meaning of murder. The JPS Torah translates ratsach as “murder” in both verses.

Find out the meaning of the words first. (I thought you read this? You claimed to have.)
310 posted on 05/05/2014 6:56:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: A_perfect_lady

The one true God does not lie and does not require lying. He is a just God who allows freedom of choice, whether the choice is good or bad. God does not violate freedom of conscience, the god of Islam does. They are not the same.

Believers are sinners—through belief they recognize this.

They understand that the only way to God—who is not simply pure but purity itself—is to first recognize not that they are “precious” but that they are sinners. Broken, flawed, sinful, hopeless. But God has provided the solution—redemption through repentance and faith.


328 posted on 05/05/2014 7:46:05 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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