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I never appreciated there was a specifically 'Christian' God. I thought God was God in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths albeit sometimes by different names, but still 'God'.
Roz, a religion depends entirely about what it says about Christ. In that regard, Christians believe He was God, every other religion denies He was God. So there's a marked difference.
robin orton wrote:
I suspect the questioner meant 'God as understood by Christians' (i.e. as a Trinity ,and everything that follows from the doctrine of the Trinity, which is not of course the same understanding of God as Jews and Muslims have). I guess however that if she'd wanted she could have said 'the God of the Abrahamic faiths', which would have been more inclusive.
Thanks, Michael, for your helpful summary of what was said.
Which sounds like we all have different understandings of the same God. This isn't true as Muslims and Jews say that Jesus was just a godd man. Christians, Jews and Muslims shouldn't be categorised togather as 'Abrahamic faiths', as Jews and Musilms by rejecting Christ have no faith in the God of Abraham.
I don't know why people are so scared of Christianity. This country gets worse as we reject more of its values. If we all lived by the values of the Bible, this country would be a much better place. Quite why it is 'absolutely shameful' to ask a question about religion at a debate about morality in politics is beyond me.
I think it speaks volumes about the prejudice of the comment's author. This is the same author by the way that accuses others of 'boorish intolorance' on other threads.
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