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RE: Dear Christians
April 28, 2013 at 1:04 am
(April 28, 2013 at 12:40 am)Drich Wrote: Same God different God what does it matter? Do you really think religious branding has anything to do with being found righteous before God? Isn't That Judgement upto God/Jesus Himself?
The God/Jesus thing means you don't understand the question. Either that or you have conveniently forgotten the Holy Spirit. What again is the unpardonable sin?
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RE: Dear Christians
April 28, 2013 at 1:38 am
Quote:What again is the unpardonable sin?
Apparently it isn't fucking the altar boys.
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RE: Dear Christians
April 28, 2013 at 1:48 am
(April 28, 2013 at 1:04 am)cato123 Wrote: (April 28, 2013 at 12:40 am)Drich Wrote: Same God different God what does it matter? Do you really think religious branding has anything to do with being found righteous before God? Isn't That Judgement upto God/Jesus Himself?
The God/Jesus thing means you don't understand the question. Either that or you have conveniently forgotten the Holy Spirit. What again is the unpardonable sin?
I got the question i was trying to be ironical.. I forgot that most of you simply assume the worst, everytime a statement is not predigested for you and every aspect laid out and explained in great detail.
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RE: Dear Christians
April 28, 2013 at 2:08 am
(April 28, 2013 at 1:48 am)Drich Wrote: I got the question i was trying to be ironical.. I forgot that most of you simply assume the worst, everytime a statement is not predigested for you and every aspect laid out and explained in great detail.
Yeah, but you still denied the Holy Spirit.
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RE: Dear Christians
April 28, 2013 at 9:17 am
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2013 at 9:23 am by Aractus.)
Might have something to do with this, buddy?
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RE: Dear Christians
April 28, 2013 at 9:44 am
Careful, Dawud. Many Christians don't like having their fine, upstanding, Anglo god compared to your dirty, smelly, brown god.
Just look at Aracus' response.
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RE: Dear Christians
April 28, 2013 at 9:56 am
(April 28, 2013 at 2:08 am)cato123 Wrote: (April 28, 2013 at 1:48 am)Drich Wrote: I got the question i was trying to be ironical.. I forgot that most of you simply assume the worst, everytime a statement is not predigested for you and every aspect laid out and explained in great detail.
Yeah, but you still denied the Holy Spirit.
According to Christ judgement is His right/job. The Holy Spirit's job is over when this life is over.
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RE: Dear Christians
April 28, 2013 at 10:20 am
Quote:According to Christ judgement is His right/job. The Holy Spirit's job is over when this life is over.
I gotta ask: Does this mean the Spirit gets to collect unemployment? It ain't his fault he got layed off, after all.
Just askin'.....
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RE: Dear Christians
April 28, 2013 at 3:44 pm
(April 28, 2013 at 2:08 am)cato123 Wrote: (April 28, 2013 at 1:48 am)Drich Wrote: I got the question i was trying to be ironical.. I forgot that most of you simply assume the worst, everytime a statement is not predigested for you and every aspect laid out and explained in great detail.
Yeah, but you still denied the Holy Spirit.
That's not denying the Holy Spirit.
And "God" in a Christian sense incorporates all the persons.
The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
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RE: Dear Christians
April 28, 2013 at 4:37 pm
I also believe that the Abrahamic religions have one and the same God, but just have different names.
Surah 29:46:
"Do not argue with the People of the Book [the Jews and Christians] except in the kindest possible manner, save those of them who are oppressive, and say: “We believe in what was revealed to us and what was revealed to you; our God and your God are one and the same, and to Him do we submit ourselves."
"Elah" is a hebrew word for God and the Aramaic equivalent of it is "Alaha," taken from the Biblical Aramaic "Elaha" - and since Arabic is a sister language of the two languages - Allah is the Arabic cognate of the Aramaic word "Alaha." Given the prevalence of Judaism and Christianity in Arabia, the name "Alaha" would have been well-known and one would expect them to have Arabicized it by dropping the final "a" vowel.
Also, you'll see that the words "Elah," "Eloah," and "Alaha" appear in many places in the Tanakh (Jewish canon) such as in the books Ezra, Daniel, and Jeremiah when referring to the god of the Jews. These names are etymologically related to the name "Allah"
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Names_o.../elah.html
Etymology of the term Allah:
The term Allāh is derived from a contraction of the Arabic definite article al- "the" and ʾilāh "deity, god" to al-lāh meaning "the [sole] deity, God" (ὁ θεὸς μόνος, ho theos monos). Cognates of the name "Allāh" exist in other Semitic languages, including Hebrew and Aramaic. Biblical Hebrew mostly uses the plural form (but functional singular) Elohim. The corresponding Aramaic form is ʼĔlāhā אֱלָהָא in Biblical Aramaic and ʼAlâhâ ܐܰܠܳܗܳܐ in Syriac as used by the Assyrian Church, both meaning simply "God." - Wikipedia
During the course of my research, which is still ongoing, I've learned that the scriptures of Judaism have a lot more similarities with Islam than they do with Christianity.
Also, here is a Yemeni Jew who speaks Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic explaining how Allah is merely the Arabic form of a Hebrew word for God:
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