(July 12, 2011 at 3:37 am)fr0d0 Wrote: What is stated there is what I understand of Islam... that Allah is unknowable.
Yes, Allah is mostly unknowable, because He is transcendent. But regardless, we can still believe in Him and have a personal relationship with Him.
(July 12, 2011 at 3:37 am)fr0d0 Wrote: That God could never become a man; that we could never have a personal relationship with God.
Well, God doesn't need to become a man for us to have a personal relationship with him. We believe that He exists. That's all. Unlike Christians, we don't believe that God become a man.
So the Islamic view of God is simpler.
(July 12, 2011 at 3:37 am)fr0d0 Wrote: The similarities aren't lost on me. AFAIK Islam is a direct derivitive of Christianity.
No problem, that's your opinion, but I don't think that similarities necessarily entail that Islam derived directly from Christianity. Islam also shares many similarities with Judaism. They may have all come from the same God even.
(July 12, 2011 at 3:37 am)fr0d0 Wrote: What I understand Islam to be is a misunderstanding of the Judaic God with additional material compounding that.
Of course, Islam and Judasim do not have the same identical view of God as they are two different religions - and it doesn't have to be identical - because God himself can reveal additional information about Himself.
(July 12, 2011 at 3:37 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Yes, Christians believe that God isn't completely knowable.
Agreed.
(July 12, 2011 at 3:37 am)fr0d0 Wrote: PS name changes kinda breaks the forum dont they?
Sort of, yes, but it's not a big deal. This is my first time and I'm not going to change it anymore. It's going to be fine in a week or two. And almost everyone can figure out who I am in 2 seconds.
