Benefit of doubt
- Vihinsagar
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Benefit of doubt
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Re: Benefit of doubt
- Alan Jones
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Re: Benefit of doubt
- Burning ghost
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Re: Benefit of doubt
In Islam, Christianity and Judaism they centre on the same "God" model (so to speak). I think in other "religions" around the world they are still essentially referring to the same thing only with relatively alien perspectives on the general.idea of god/supreme power.
This then reduces your question to whether or not the view you hold is better than that taught by others. My advice to someone in this position is to come to try and understand the history and institutions that have built up your view and the views of others and then hopefully gain a fuller and more meaningful understand of what "God" means notnonly to yourself, but to other people (also worth including those non-believers too probably because they may have a sense of "spirituality" just not the religious baggage that is attached to such ideas).
What do you think?
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Re: Benefit of doubt
As there would be two gods if the one gods of either religion were different from each other, but there are not two gods, but one.
Islam is the most tolerant (yes, I ain't joking) on this issue. In its spiritual context, which was the guiding beacon in cross-religious studies, the Islam accepted the Jewish and Christian faiths as equivalent to Islam inasmuch as they represented the worship of the same god as that of Islam in a more basic, unevolved form.
This view was first skewed in the time of the crusades, when Christians proposed to slaughter Muslims, and it was secondly skewed by the Ottoman Empire's expansionist policies, and finally skewed by the establishment of the Jewish State of Israel.
Jewish and Christian faiths are not so inclusive. They believe their god is separate from the other two, and the other two worship false idols.
How many gods are out there if there is one god, but this one god is different from itself in one faith by the other faith? I know that this is your basic question, Burning Ghost, and believe me, this I have thought about many times before, with no fruitful answer ensuing.
One can't be different from itself. Yet it is, in practice. Islam tried to put a cork on that. Christianity and Judaism wouldn't hear of that.
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