Dear Christians

[fr0d0]

No, fr0d0, I wasn't trolling you at all. I was going to reply to you later. I didn't forget about this nor did I ignore you. It just happened to be the case that my mind was on some other threads and on some other things that I was working on in the last few days. I also have a habit of procrastinating, and I'm a slow poster, and sometimes it might even take me ages to reply to something as I did in other forums ... kind of weird, I guess.

Yeah right. You don't stop trolling me until it's your turn to reply. Then nothing.

See the link below.

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/allah.html

You quote an Islam website on another religion. Are you serious?!

And lol to those videos.

If you want the counter argument to your link, it's here: http://www.answering-islam.org/Responses...entity.htm

There are follow ups to that.

it was never the name of a moon god

there is no historical evidence nor any logical argument to to support the claim that "Allah" was the name of a moon god

Well your Wikipedia link says differently. "Some scholars trace the name to the South Arabian Ilah, a title of the Moon god"

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Christian God: One God revealed in three Persons (a Tri-unity or Trinity), Father, Son (Jesus Christ) and Holy Spirit. Each member of the Trinity having the same essence (essential being), but each Member having different roles.
a. God approachable by man through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
b. A God of judgment on sin, but love toward sinners, proven by His coming to earth to die for sinful men. God first loves man.
c. A God that is a Father who cares for His children.

Islamic God: One God (Qur’an 2:163), Allah. Muhammad rejected the truth of the Trinity as blasphemous (Qur’an 5:73; 4:171). Muhammad taught that Allah was the only God, but originally Allah was one of the 360 idol-gods worshipped by the various Arab tribes.
a. God unapproachable by sinful man. He has only communicated with mankind through a progression of angels and prophets.
b. A God of wrath and judgment, who hates sinners (Qur'an 2:190). Man must first love Allah for Allah to love him (Qur'an 3:31)
c. A God that cannot be called "father" for that would mean Allah would have had a wife and children, and therefore would not be God (Qur'an 19:88-92).

At a very basic level, the 'god' all of these faith's must have some similarity. A smidgeon of knowledge is all a person needs to see the vast differences after that.

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I argued those attributes of the Christian god (Father, Son, human being, etc.) are, in my opinion, simply flawed interpretations of the Bible.

And I explained to you the Christian response to that, which you thanked me for. Unlike in Islam, Christianity is consistent with Judaic theology. This speaks volumes to me about your claims of flawed interpretation. But I'm not here to argue with you about it. I have merely stated that there are differences. Islam has a vested interest in making God and Allah the same. You have to argue it I guess.

You touch upon the simple difference betwen our faiths, the trinity, but fail to address the meat of the argument: the evolutionary step I refer to, mentioned above.

No, the god of the Jews is in fact the same god.

Then let's see how many similarities you can point to between the attributes of the Judaic god and the attributes of the Christian god (which you mentioned earlier).

No pressure, though.

The Judaic God and the Christian God are identical, from the Old Testament. the interpretation of the trinity causes some post interpretation perhaps, but the reading is exactly the same. Jesus as a Jew links directly to Judaism and Judaic law. There is no misheard approximations as found in the words of Mohammed... the trinity of the the father, mother and son, for example. Christianity isn't a 3rd party bolt on. It's a continuation from the source material.


I was looking for this earlier - a nice tableture comparison between the 3 Abrahamic faiths: http://christianityinview.com/xncomparison.html

Damn. And another: http://www.religionfacts.com/islam/compa...ianity.htm