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To: RnMomof7
I found this quote posted above of interest,as I had a discussion on another thread with a Catholic that implied that Islam and Hindi were just "other paths" to God..Jesus was just "one way"

As a matter of fact, you were talking to me. Here's what I said:

"The God of the Jews, the God of Islam, the God of the Philosophers and the God of Brahman Hindus, is the same as our God. Our paths diverge after that.

Granted, the Trinity has not been revealed to these other people, but we don't have a complete understanding of God's essence either."

If anyone's interested, they can follow the relevant discussion here.

Others can decide if I implied that "Islam and Hindi were just "other paths" to God..Jesus was just 'one way'"

86 posted on 10/15/2001 11:54:47 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
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To: Aquinasfan
AHHHH Heck lets just post your words

You wrote

Mohammed was a false prophet, but that doesn't mean that "Allah" is a false god. "Allah" is the Aramaic word for "God."

Yes, Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. But that also means that God is Truth. We can't deny truths in other religion, because all truth is God's truth. So when other religions teach that God sustains everything in existence, that God is One, that God is omnipotent, et cetera, we have to affirm these truths.

Yes, no one comes to the Father except through Jesus. But does that mean that someone has to recognize Jesus explicitly? Certainly someone who "loves his neighbor as himself," without understanding and explicitly acknowledging Jesus as Lord and Savior through no fault of his own, implicitly acknowledges Jesus.

PS I can and do deny the "truth " of Islam,Hindu,Buddhism,Mormonism,Jehovah Witnesses

I deny the "truth of any "religion" that denies the divinity of Christ,the trinity,or salvation by the blood of Jesus Christ

92 posted on 10/15/2001 12:11:06 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: Aquinasfan; RnMomof7; Jerry_M
"The God of the Jews, the God of Islam, the God of the Philosophers and the God of Brahman Hindus, is the same as our God. Our paths diverge after that.

Actually, they don't. The true OT saints understood and knew that the coming Messiah would be God in the flesh:

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed Heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds, who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, being made so much better than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

For unto which of the angels said God at any time, "Thou art My Son; this day have I begotten Thee"? [Psalm 2]

And again, "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son"? [2 Samuel 7]

And again, when He bringeth in the First-Begotten into the world, He saith, "And let all the angels of God worship Him." [Deut. 32:43, Psalm 97]

And of the angels He saith, "Who maketh His angels spirits and His ministers a flame of fire." [Psalm 104]

But unto the Son He saith, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Thy Kingdom. [Psalm 45] Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows." [Isaiah 61]

And, "Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of Thine hands. [Psalm 102]

They shall perish, but Thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment. [Isaiah 34] And as a vesture shalt Thou fold them up, and they shall be changed. But Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail."

But to which of the angels said He at any time, "Sit on My right hand until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool"? [Psalm 110]

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation?

He said unto them, "How then doth David in the Spirit call Him `Lord,' saying, `The LORD said unto my Lord, "Sit Thou on My right hand until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool"'? If David then call Him `Lord,' how is He his son?"

Furthermore, God is already at work in Genesis 3, preaching the coming of His salvation to the Church. The OT is one string of prophecies after another about the glorious Mighty Work of Redemption with which God will reclaim His own forever. A verse of my own meditation of the last few weeks:

Sing, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! The LORD hath taken away thy judgments; He hath cast out thine enemy. The King of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee; thou shalt not see evil any more. In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, "Fear thou not"; and to Zion, "Let not thine hands be slack. The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His love, He will joy over thee with singing."

105 posted on 10/15/2001 12:38:40 PM PDT by CCWoody
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