sofalogic wrote:Deborah wrote:The god of the Christian and the Jew is the same God.
Probably the Islamic God is also the same. But other religions books to do stand up to the scruteny of science, history ect, that the bible does.
All I am saying is Muhammad was not inspired by God. He was inspired by a "being" who claimed to be God's messenger (Gabriel). That being was a satanic being or Satan himself.
I never said anything about muhammad.
The possibility is that all three religions have the same God. (I suggest a big possibility) But Mohammed, the founder of Islam, died in AD 632, yet his biography was not written until AD 767.
When I was a newer Christian than I am now, I had the prililedge to read a paper that told about one mans struggle to disprove god, after about 10 years guess what.. he found God. the following is a passage from his paper.
About this time in my life, I decided that other religious systems might be just as good as the Bible. To check them out, I began reading the Vedas, Koran, Sayings of Buddha, writings of Bahaullah and Zoroaster and found that other religions taught many things I could not accept. There were teachings in their writings concerning what life was like after this life that were unrewarding and unrealistic and there were descriptions of God that were illogical and inconsistent. There were also many scientific inaccuracies in their works. There were many teachings about life and how to live it that were not workable. This included the role and position of women in the Koran, the Holy War concept of Mohammed, the pantheism of nearly all other systems, reincarnation, idol worship, polygamy and a myriad of ideas which I had expected to find in the Bible, but did not. I began to realize that nothing matched the Bible's system of life. Only in the Bible could I see statements which would stand in the face of the scientific facts that I knew to be true and only the Bible offered a system of life that I felt was reasonable and consistent. I decided that if I ever carne to believe in God, it would be a belief based upon the Bible.
it and the rest of the paper can be found at
http://www.doesgodexist.org/AboutClayton/PastLife.html
the following links to a chart that shows us how different and how similar the Christian Muslim faiths are.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/comp_isl_chr.htm