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Thread #110662   Message #2329787
Posted By: Paul Burke
30-Apr-08 - 10:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: Theology question
Subject: RE: BS: Theology question
Don't forget that there's no "The" Bible. There are several versions, that include different books and have (particularly sensitive) passages translated differently. Compare the Douay with the King James versions, for example, and that's not mentioning Wycliff, Geneva or the Jewish versions without the NT. The details selected are highly ideological in nature, and must reflect the struggles in the early Church that led to the rejection of many early scriptures, like the Gospel of St. Thomas.

Do Christians, Jews and Muslims worship the same God was the original question. Do Christians all worship the same God is another question. Even discounting the Arians, Monophysites, Monothelites, Nestorians and so forth, who differed about the fundamental relationship between God and Jesus, I doubt if Torquemada and St. Francis of Assisi could have agreed on the attributes of the God they worshipped had they been able to meet.