RE: Dear Christians
May 13, 2013 at 5:33 am
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2013 at 5:44 am by fr0d0.)
So Ray... are you still participating in this discussion? Or have you abandoned it now?
From the comparison tables, one item in particular interests me... Islam doesn't agree with Christianity and Judaism that the Adam and Eve story describes the human condition, ie fallen man.
This is what I mean when I say that Islam disagrees fundamentally with the understanding of the source text. Christianity is a perfectly acceptable translation of the source given the appearance of the Messiah... the fulfillment of the OT. What you have in Islam is a conflicting theology. One that does not and could not add up to Jews. Added to which is the conflicting ideas of what constitutes the central deity.
Mohammed wrote down the exact words of Allah as it was dictated to him (well he got someone else to write it who could write of course), where the Christian/ Judaic bible is not. Yet we have glaring inaccuracies in the text like the misunderstanding of what Christianity was about. Allah, then, didn't know everything?! Plenty of basic contradictions easily upheld doesn't help me to start trusting anything from Islam.
From the comparison tables, one item in particular interests me... Islam doesn't agree with Christianity and Judaism that the Adam and Eve story describes the human condition, ie fallen man.
This is what I mean when I say that Islam disagrees fundamentally with the understanding of the source text. Christianity is a perfectly acceptable translation of the source given the appearance of the Messiah... the fulfillment of the OT. What you have in Islam is a conflicting theology. One that does not and could not add up to Jews. Added to which is the conflicting ideas of what constitutes the central deity.
Mohammed wrote down the exact words of Allah as it was dictated to him (well he got someone else to write it who could write of course), where the Christian/ Judaic bible is not. Yet we have glaring inaccuracies in the text like the misunderstanding of what Christianity was about. Allah, then, didn't know everything?! Plenty of basic contradictions easily upheld doesn't help me to start trusting anything from Islam.
