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To: HossB86
... they do not worship the same God ...

Ok, you voted that the Jews do not worship and adore the same God as you profess to worship and adore.

Jews do not pronounce the name of God as you do, being partial to the Hebrew and substituting Adonai for the Tetragrammaton whose historically correct pronunciation was forgotten. The Arabic word Allah is similar to the Hebrew El/Elohim construct, meaning literally "The God" so a congruent comparison on your part would be El/Elohim and Allah, which are words for God used in constructs (eg., God of Abraham, God Almighty, etc.).

220 posted on 10/15/2015 2:45:45 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981

To follow up on your response, it is my understanding that both Arab Jews and Arab Christians use the term “Allah.”

Here’s my take on it.

If a Jew, a Christian, and a Moslem were all asked if they worshipped the God that is described in the Torah:

The Jew would say, “Yes.”
The Christian would say, “Yes, as revealed by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
The Moslem would say, “Yes, as revealed by the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.”

God is the same, but we believe in Him in greatly different ways.


222 posted on 10/15/2015 3:15:23 PM PDT by rwa265 (This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. John 15:12)
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To: af_vet_1981
... they do not worship the same God ...

Oooh. Nice editing. Let's have that again, but IN CONTEXT (seemingly a problem in Roman Catholicism)....

"They do not worship God in his totality; they do not believe in God the Son. So, in that case, they do not worship the same God in that they do not believe in the Trinity. But they worship the one true living God, be it imperfectly."

Now... do Roman Catholics worship the same "God" as Muslims, as is stated in CCC 841, knowing that Muslims do not worship the God of Judeo-Christianity?

Can you answer that?

Hoss

231 posted on 10/15/2015 5:16:38 PM PDT by HossB86 (Christ, and Him alone.)
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