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To: xzins
The point: Both allah and Jesus are known.

Not so! The remote unknowableness of allah to the muslims -- the concept of God's holding himself at arm's length from his people -- is central to islam and utterly unlike Christianity which makes all men brothers in (and through) the divine Christ, and which makes us not slaves in eternity but co-heirs to the Kingdom. We are called to share so intimately in the life of God that we call him Abba; as Athanasius, echoed by Aquinas write, "God became man so that man might become God." Muslims have nothing like this. They worship a wizard-of-oz deity that no one ever actually sees or approaches. The muslims do not profess to know God in anything approaching the Christian or Jewish sense.

The islamics CLEARLY do not consider Jesus = Allah to be truth.

Neither do the Jews, as many on this thread have pointed out before me.

595 posted on 11/21/2003 9:00:53 AM PST by Romulus (Nothing really good ever happened after 1789.)
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To: Romulus
The muslims worship an invented god named allah.

The God worshipped by Jews is the God correctly explained by Jesus, whether those of the Jewish faith understand it or not.
598 posted on 11/21/2003 9:15:41 AM PST by xzins (Proud to be Army!)
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