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Thread #110662   Message #2323730
Posted By: Little Hawk
23-Apr-08 - 08:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Theology question
Subject: RE: BS: Theology question
Seems highly unlikely to me, kendall! ;-)

If they were two separate beings, then neither of them could even BE God....unless you think God is a limited being. (like you or me or any other separate individual) How can God be limited??? How can God be separate? Can God be over there but not here? That doesn't work.

If you think God is limited, then why even bother calling "him" God in the first place? You'd just be worshipping another limited being, and what's the point of that? Limited beings are fallible, because of their limitations. They aren't adequate to solve all your problems or answer all your needs. They can't create the Universe or run it. You might as well worship your mother, or Brittney Spears or Oprah Winfrey or someone else like that then if you thought that God and Allah were two different beings, because if they are...they're limited!

What your friend probably means is that the Christian God and the Muslim Allah are 2 different human concepts of what God is supposed to be like.

At least, I hope that's what your friend means! ;-) If not, well, I would just shrug and say, "whatever", and not bother arguing further about it.

By the way, the Muslims, Christians, and Jews ALL recognize God as the same being is spoken of throughout the Old Testament and who supposedly spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, caused the Great Flood, made Adam, etc. They ALL claim to worship that same God.

So how does that make God or Jehovah or Yaweh or Allah different beings in the eyes of a Christian, a Jew or a Muslim, when they all purport to believe the same holy book which is about the one God???

What they're all really saying is this: "Your version of what God/Allah/Yaweh is supposed to be like is WRONG. Very wrong. Dead wrong. But ours is right. So you're all going to hell. We're going to paradise. Nyahh! Nyahh! Nyahh!"

It's as stupid and puerile and pointless as the arguments between Democrats and Republicans if you ask me. (they worship the same "god" too, but they don't think so...in their case, however, it's the god of "being in power", also known as "money talks" and "having a successful political career")

Everybody has gods. By their gods shall ye know them. If their gods are greedy, vengeful, jealous, and unforgiving, so are they! Avoid such people if you can.