Talk about a pointless dispute.

I'm not sure she offered an academic proof, merely a premise intended for outreach to a demographic in the country having a rather tough go at things right now...

she's ADDING a point

conclusion. So what's wrong with what she said?

that's enough reason for baptists to reject it. I think Wheaton is a baptist school. And they don't take kindly to their Father, Son and Holy Ghost mixing with them muslins.

They are both violent, mind controlling mythologies taking far too much control over people's lives and turning them into rabid monsters.

Most people who worship are peaceful people who do not accept medieval interpretations of their sacred texts. But even a minority of 5 to 10% being angry, destructive literalists is enough to cause a lot of pain in this world.

Both religions are derived from Judaism, aren't they?

Arabic-speaking Christians, of whom there are many, especially in Lebanon, use it too.

Real upset.

Good luck with that one. It's rather like saying it's a "fact" that there's only really one US President, who's variously white, single, and in his 40s; black, married with daughters, and around 60; and who's black, widowed, with a single son.

Muslims have traditionally said we have the same god, but that Xians and Jews screwed it up. Jesus wasn't crucified, but imperfectly revealed a God with no partners--no son, no trinity. "Jesus is God" is blasphemy. It's all in "they screwed it up", so we Xians and Jews worship a warped image of the one true God. They're tolerant. But Muhammed has it all over on Jesus. Xians used to consider Muslims heretics early on.

Xians believed, at one point (or at least some did), that Jesus was pre-existent to his birth and was the law-giver of old. In other words, Jesus was Yahweh. Chew on that one. Jehovah was skewered by a Roman soldier. But even then they believed in a triune god. That is, the Muslims are all wet. But it was a nice fiction because otherwise you'd have had genocide.

Not all Xians even believed that. "God" in some sense was the lawgiver, but didn't really mean it. Somehow.

Jews believe in a single G-d. No Jesus. Their G-d has no son and Jews missed the boat. That became offensive (in my lifetime).

I figure that Abraham knew Jesus and that's who told Abraham to spared Isaac. Er, Ishmael--in one tradition Abraham was going to sacrifice one son, in another a completely different son. Rather like insisting that my Barack Obama's kid's "Michael", and he has no daughters. (What, you say we don't have the same president? Who's yours, if not Barack Obama?)

It's only a "fact" as long as "fact" can mean "without foundation in anything observable or provable." In other words, it's only fact as long as it's not obviously able to be a fact but an assertion rooted in unprovable belief.

I am saying it's a fact in terms of accepted theology. Just like it's a fact that Eru Ilúvatar produced Melkor, who became Morgoth who was defeated, leaving his lieutenant, Sauron, to become the main bad guy in terms of Tolkien's mythology.

sigh.

As far as boB is concerned, they're all Pinks.

often seem shocked when they discover the rules apply to them. I've read elsewhere that Wheaton has fired faculty/staff for getting divorced and for converting to Catholicism, so Hawkins shouldn't be surprised that making this sort statement that goes to the heart of most Christian sects will lead to being dismissed.

Apparently the college had no problem with her wearing a hijab, but drew the line at her disagreement with the tenets of their faith - tenets, by the way, that all faculty and staff must read and agree with before they are hired.

This is not a defense of the school, it is a criticism of the parents who agree to sent their children to them, college students who continue to enroll, and faculty who agree to these religious beliefs and teach at such schools - without them, these schools would cease to exist.

No professor with brains and a conscience will last at Wheaton for a lifetime. Eventually it will crack.

They all deserve each other.

the Aramaic word for God is Elah or Alah (variously spelled) which would mean that Jesus himself (if he existed) would have spoken of God as Allah. Jews, Christians and Muslims all revere the same Old Testament prophets, and while Muslims don't believe Jesus is the Messiah, they do consider him a great prophet.

And why shouldn't they all believe in the same god, since the origin of each is the Mideast desert.

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the people running the religious college do not know much about their religion?