Maybe you can answer my question to MissAmericanPie:
I'm curious why you point out that Islam's theology doesn't hold that God is three persons with one divine nature? Are you saying that Islamic theology proves that Moslems don't worship the same God as Christians and that they are therefore destined for eternal damnation? If so, do the Jews, who also deny trinitarian theology, worship a different God from Christians, and are they therefore also destined for eternal damnation like the Moslems?
That is actually THREE questions. And, sure! (c8
- I pointed it out because the fellow who started this thread stated that "everyday we [Moslems] turn our face to Mecca to pray to what our Christian brothers call God, our Jewish sisters call Yahweh and whom we call Allah." My point was no, these are not simply interchangeable names for the same Being. In fact, that was my ONLY point, at the time. In my last posting, I expressly put other considerations aside. It's a simple matter of the Law of Non-Contradiction: A cannot be A and anti-A at the same time. Similarly, God cannot be an Islamic monad and a Biblical Trinity at the same time.
- As a Christian, I believe Jesus when He says, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14:6). Again, simple logic: that statement cannot both be true and untrue. There cannot both be one way to God (through personal faith in Jesus), and many ways to God, at the same time. So no, believing Jesus as I do, I do not believe that a person can know God through Jesus and through denying Jesus, as Moslems do.
- As to Jews, my most honest and briefest answer is that, as I see the Old Testament, the problem is that those Jews today who do not acknowledge Jesus as Messiah do not believe in the Old Testament. Therein, God Himself, speaking prophetically of Messiah Jesus, said, "And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him" (Deuteronomy 18:19). That is a statement that God will judge anyone who rejects His Son, the Messiah. Jesus says, "Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you — Moses, in whom you trust. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?" (John 5:45-47). Again, Jesus confirms this when He says, "if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins" (John 8:24). As a Christian, of course, I believe what Jesus says.
Brief answer, but I hope it helps.
Dan
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