Dear Christians

[fr0d0]

I guess the distinction arises from the summary of attributes both Islam and Christianitiy allocate to each. From those attributes arise two very different deities.

[catfish]

I guess the distinction arises from the summary of attributes both Islam and Christianitiy allocate to each. From those attributes arise two very different deities.

Really? I don't believe for a second that humans define God while it seems that you do...
So which god do you follow?
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[Rayaan]

He follows a re-defined god who turned himself into a man, all the while remaining God, and then "sacrificed" himself just to forgive the sins of everyone else.

Story telling was at the center of the beginnings of the Jesus movement. And I think we're right to call it the Jesus movement here because if we think of it as Christianity, that is, from the perspective of the kind of movement and institutional religion that it would become a few hundred years later, we will miss the flavor of those earliest years of the kind of crude and rough beginnings, the small enclaves trying to keep the memory alive, and more than that, trying to understand what this Jesus meant for them. That's really the function of the story telling...it's a way for them to articulate their understanding of Jesus. And in the process of story telling, when we recognize it as a living part of the development of the tradition, we're watching them define Jesus for themselves. At that moment we have caught an authentic and maybe one of the most historically significant parts of the development of Christianity.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/.../oral.html

[Minimalist]

I guess the distinction arises from the summary of attributes both Islam and Christianitiy allocate to each. From those attributes arise two very different deities.

[Tonus]

That pigeon just stares right into YOUR SOUL.

[Minimalist]

And he'll shit on your car, too.

[fr0d0]

I guess the distinction arises from the summary of attributes both Islam and Christianitiy allocate to each. From those attributes arise two very different deities.

Really? I don't believe for a second that humans define God while it seems that you do...
So which god do you follow?
.

If you call yourself a christian catty, then you hang your hat upon a set of attributes. Those attributes would conflict with a Muslim's understood set of attributes.

No one said anything about making a god for themselves. But knock yourself out waving your tiny penis about some.

[downbeatplumb]

But knock yourself out waving your tiny penis about some.

But would it be tiny if he could do that with it?

[fr0d0]

Tiny in comparison of course

[Rayaan]

If you call yourself a christian catty, then you hang your hat upon a set of attributes. Those attributes would conflict with a Muslim's understood set of attributes.

What are those conflicting attributes exactly, then? Let me guess - Jesus/God is wholly good and Allah is evil ...