notyou2 wrote:Still awaiting a response tzor.
I didn't think it was worth a response.
And I still don't think it is worth a response.
I do find it interesting that you seem so keen to distance the "godless" government (really, they just only want state control over religion ... didn't Henry VIII want the same thing) from Christianity while at the same time equating Christianity with Islam. I can't express how much I disagree with your assertions. "Who is the liar? Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Whoever denies the Father and the Son, this is the antichrist." To even suggest that Islam worships the same triune God as Christians is the height of stupidity.
Who is the liar? Who has denied that Jesus is the Christ? Who is the one to whom God speaks after the fact? Who is the one to who lays down the laws and grants himself the exception to those laws? Who is the one who built his faith on "submission?"
Last time I checked, China isn't currently invading Europe trying to get them all to submit to the will of the great pedeophile.
Let me make this one point absolutely clear. According to Islam, I am a filthy polytheist because I believe in the Trinity and that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I will not insult a Muslim by insisting that I worship the same God he does and I will not likewise consider his "god" the same as the God revealed through Jesus Christ. I suppose I need to pull out the big guns here
Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?One of the most interesting commentaries on the subject was published in 1956 in, of all things, a children’s book. C.S. Lewis addressed the possibility of finding common ground with Islam in The Last Battle, the final book in The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis doesn’t use the term “Islam” and “Christianity” in his fictional account, but it’s quite obvious to an adult reader that the Narnians are meant to represent Christians, and their enemies, the Calormenes, are meant to represent Muslims. For those in doubt on this point, the Islamic nature of Calormene society is more fully established in Lewis’s earlier book, The Horse and His Boy.
Lewis’s story provides some much needed perspective on the question of whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. The quandary for Christians is that, although the Allah of Islam is different in major respects from the Christian concept of God, no one wants to deny Muslims a place among the family of believers. After all, Muslims profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and many are undeniably sincere in their desire to serve God. Saying that they don’t worship the one God sounds too much like saying that their prayers are wasted. Thus, a good many Christians resolve the quandary by ignoring the theological difficulties and focusing instead on the worthy acts and prayers of Muslims.
But that doesn’t mean that Calormenes can’t be sincere seekers of God. One character in the story that stands out is Emeth, a young Calormene officer who has sought to serve Tash all his days, and whose great desire is “to know more of him.” Emeth’s nobility is so evident that one of the Narnians remarks that “he is worthy of a better God than Tash.”
When Emeth finally encounters the true God, Aslan, he is abashed at his former service to Tash. Here is his narration:
But I said, Alas Lord, I am no son of thine but the servant of Tash. He answered, Child, all the service thou hast done to Tash, I account as service done to me… Not because he and I are one, but because we are opposites, I take to me the services which thou hast done to him. For I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him. Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath’s sake, it is by me that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him. And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted.