anything physical with God or any belief in multiple gods[/B]. You'll probably see it rendered as "polytheist."
'Idolatry' sounds more accurate, if I'm understanding correctly. I find it interesting that Christians cite the 10 commandments, yet have crucifixes and crosses (graven images).
Ours is arguably one of the original interpretations; it has existed since the 8th century AD.
Over 150 years after Muhammad? How is that 'the original' in any sense? What about the interpretations and understandings in the first 150 years- let alone when Muhammad was alive? The 'original interpretation' is that of those who lived with Muhammad. Aisha and (I forget the name of her rival) can claim to b the two 'originals'. Your interpretation, you just said, came later and is therefore heresy if anything, comparable perhaps the the Gnostic Heresy that sprung up in the centuries after Jesus.
While the god itself may be technically the same, conceptions of God vary widely between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, as well as within each religion.
That's what I said,. To say that Islam has a 'different' god is like saying Baptists and 7th Day Adventists have different gods. They worship the same god. They merely understand that god differently and disagree on who His prophets were. Surely, you would agree that focusing in the differences lends too the intolerance in the region and all would be wiser to focus on their shared beliefs and heritage, yes?
Simply stating that the same God is worshiped without acknowledging the significant theological differences between each religion is not accurate.
I've been saying this whole time that they have very different understandings of God and His will. It is you who was being inaccurate atr best by denying their shared heritage and faith and instead attempting the distance them form one another as much as possible and define them as wholly distinct faiths without recognizing their relations to eachother.
I harbor no enmity towards Jews or Judaism, nor am I unwilling to acknowledge what the two religions have in common. To claim that Islam is a Jewish sect, though, is wildly inaccurate.
They are as much a Jewish cult as Christianity is. Both grew out of Judaism and can ultimately trace their births to a disagreement over the nature of one character.
Judaism + no more prophets remains Judaism in all its denominations and sekts
Jews (and later gentiles) who recognized jesus as the Messiah became Christianity in all its forms
Jews who recognize Muhammad as God's prophet became Islam in all its forms
Each then split further as various theological and political disputes took place throughout history.
Conceptions of God vary more distinctly between religions than they do within them, particularly between Judaism/Christianity and Islam.
I disagree. Islam and Christianity both open the doors to gentiles, while Judaism in its truest form remains a strictly racist religion open only to the Israelites and their decedents. Judaism still keeps the Moseanic Covenent while both Christianity and Islam hold that living up to the old Law is near impossible and hold that men can still find mercy in the eyes of God despite their failings (though they disagree on how). If Christianity ignores its most insane fundamentalists and we look at Islam without the fanatical jihadist element (uin other words, look at the sane people on each side), they have much in common. If it weren't for extremists in both camps and the West's support of the Zionist occupation (itself a discriminatory concept that ignores the underlying issue of intolerance and instead set the stage for the ME conflict because Europe still didn't want to accept the Jews and found it easier to cater to the Jewish nationalists than to address the problems that led to the Holocaust in the first place), perhaps the two faiths could have been in harmony instead of engaged in this ideological conflict that had led to so much bloodshed and threatens to lead to more...
The development of Islam was fundamentally different from the development of Christianity. Christianity is built on top of Judaism; Islam was constructed on a foundation of its own.
I disagree on the second half of that. Christianity was built on top of Judaism whereas Islam sought to fix the foundation before building the house and declare the olld law corrupted so that they could, in a sense, start over. Christianity's approach has led to a number of internal contradictions and theological arguments attempting to reconcile the OT and the NT. Had Jesus merely declared the Moseanic Law corrupted or ended, Christianity might have made more sense.
Christians do so while ignoring the Bible and the admonition against preaching to Gentiles.
The Jesus character seems quite confused...
Kumba ya? Shit, if I had my way, they'd both disappear and Judaism with them... and pretty much every other religion
Buddhism can stay, though. They don't cause problems..
Yet are unable to support those claims, because their scripture does not tell them to interpret it non-literally.
the other side of that coin- spinning it in the other direction, it never says it's not allegory
Accept, you know, for Jesus' claims of decent through David through a man not his father and a female whose lineage is traced through four women (one of whom lists no father) all known in the bible for being, well... whores, harlots, and sexual deviants..
Even your source doesn't contend that they cite the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama as justification for their actions, unlike Jihadists citing the Qu'ran or how Christians easily can cite the bible.
