Islam

[canny]

Originally Posted by eddybear

Muhammed wrote the Qu'ran, and he claimed God told him what to write. But given what the Qu'ran says, including:

its denial of the deity of Jesus,
its denial of his death on the cross,
its denial of his resurrection,
its denial of the Virgin Birth.......need I go on?

This doesn't sound like whoever told him that was our God!

True, there are points of agreement, for example about Abraham. And it could be useful to build on those points of agreement in dialogue with Muslims. But given what they believe - or perhaps more importantly don't believe - about Jesus, a divide between the Christian and Muslim faiths is inevitable. It is to be hoped that, despite disagreeing on our faiths, we could all still get along, indeed as Christians we are to love everyone, regardless of creed. But the 2 faiths can never merge, the differences are too enormous.

I am glad you got my point,,, that it was before Jesus I was talking about Eddy,,,Sometimes I just wonder bout how people are and how they split and segregate themselves and special....

its what started it all,, segregation because one was more special than the other. kinda stuff...

[jack hawkins]

The main issue I have with Islam is that there is a lot of hate in that religion, and it is very deep-seated. Christianity acknowledges its debt to the Jews and Judaism, but we don't try and say that the Jews have got it all wrong. Muhammed and the Koran say that the Christians and Jews have distorted the Bible deliberately and that all the prophets were Muslims in a massive re-writing of history. This means that Muslims cannot truly respect Christianity or Judaism, nor the adherents of either faith.

Islam rightly comes in for a lot of criticism because of the other problems associated with it - repression of women for example.