Bobby. wrote on Jun 7
th, 2011 at 2:05pm:
Yadda doesn't realise that in the first churches,
The Jews would attend on Saturday,
the Christians on Sunday &
the Muslims on Friday -
that's right - in the same church -
because they worshipped the same God -
the Abrahamic God.
If that is true bobby, then God must have had a personality transplant, when he established his new, 'perfect' religion, ISLAM.
Compare how the God of the Jews expresses himself, with how the God of ISLAM expresses himself.
Do you claim that they are the same God?
e.g.
The God of Moses [the Bible], inspired these words...
The treatment of strangers ['unbelievers'] under the law of Moses;
Exodus 12:49
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
Exodus 22:21
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him...Exodus 23:9
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger...Leviticus 19:33
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself...Leviticus 25:47-49
[these verses clearly speak of [and reveal that it was entirely 'lawful'] for Hebrews [themselves] to become bond servants [slaves], to prosperous strangers living among the Hebrews.]
Deuteronomy 1:16
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
Deuteronomy 10:17-19
For the LORD your God... loveth the stranger
, ...Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 24:17
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger...
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Whereas,
The God of the Koran and ISLAM, inspired these words...
"....those who reject Allah have no protector."
Koran 47.008
v. 8-11
"......the curse of Allah is on those without Faith."
Koran 2.089
"Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah:"
Koran 3.028
"O ye who believe! Take not for friends unbelievers rather than believers: Do ye wish to offer Allah an open proof against yourselves?"
Koran 4.144
"O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him."
Koran 9.123
"Do the Unbelievers think that they can take My servants as protectors besides Me? Verily We have prepared Hell for the Unbelievers for (their) entertainment."
Koran 18.102
"Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; and those who are with him are strong against Unbelievers, (but) compassionate amongst each other......"
Koran 48.029
"O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be firm against them. Their abode is Hell,- an evil refuge indeed."
Koran 9.073
Koran 66.009
"Unbelievers are unto you open enemies."
Koran 4.101
"Fighting [against unbelievers] is prescribed for you, and [if] ye dislike it.....Allah knoweth, and ye know not."
Koran 002.216
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You say that....
"....Christians and moslems worship the same God."
bobby,
No matter how sincerely you say it, it doesn't make it so.Google;
a different god allahGoogle;
allah another god YES Yadda..it IS the same 'god'...it's just 3 different books..written by people with three different opinions.
In all of human history (200,000+ years) only THREE religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have adopted the concept of a 'one god'....all the others have a pantheon...so, like many other things in human society, they ARE related..just a slight difference of opinion as to the message..
If you do a little research into the root (basic) tenets, you find they weren't that different to start with...all the variations occured long after the original texts were written...Indeed, some variations have occurred within the last hundred years or so..
The King James version of the New Testament is very different to the original, due to literacy and problems with translation from aramaic to latin to english..
Language evolves, all the time.....'gay' used to mean happy and carefree, now it means homosexual...that's just one example..
Words and terms used in a book written 1400yrs, or 2000yrs or even 3500 yrs ago don't have the same meaning NOW that they did THEN....
doctrinal reasons..Like the fact that Mary (the mother of jesus) WASN'T a virgin, until the 11th Century, and Christ wasn't born in December, he was born around May/June/July...December was a pagan spring festival that was taken over..