tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143395511928869444.post3687189661324716427..comments2024-01-02T13:37:26.563-06:00Comments on גֵּר־וְתוֹשָׁב: Taxonomies of Deity: Do Christians and Muslims worship the same Allah?d. millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844676267073730959noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143395511928869444.post-44205085792761382152016-02-16T19:40:12.955-06:002016-02-16T19:40:12.955-06:00Hi Tobin, Thanks for your comment. In answer to yo...Hi Tobin, Thanks for your comment. In answer to your question, I recommend the essay by Edward Feser that I link to in this post: <a rel="nofollow">http://gervatoshav.blogspot.ca/2016/02/a-same-god-miscellany.html</a>.d. millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844676267073730959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143395511928869444.post-56270944758236572812016-02-16T18:49:19.953-06:002016-02-16T18:49:19.953-06:00If Muslims worship the one true God (despite speci...If Muslims worship the one true God (despite specifically rejecting the Trinity and the divinity of Jesus), then do Baha'is, Unitarians, Rastafarians, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Branch Davidians, and the LRA also worship the one true God?Tobinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143395511928869444.post-63858622385583563052015-12-31T09:42:37.904-06:002015-12-31T09:42:37.904-06:00Thanks for your irenic response, Eric. Thanks for your irenic response, Eric. d. millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844676267073730959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143395511928869444.post-35511637351596477762015-12-31T08:39:01.507-06:002015-12-31T08:39:01.507-06:00David - for whatever it's worth, here's a ...David - for whatever it's worth, here's a response - and please hear this as a "talking with," not "arguing back," from someone who truly and genuinely enjoys talking with you. http://scatterings1976.blogspot.ca/2015/12/yhwh-and-allah-reflection.html<br />Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04930200263533672575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143395511928869444.post-37632700046106690342015-12-25T20:30:19.385-06:002015-12-25T20:30:19.385-06:00Thanks for your helpful comment, Brad, and for you...Thanks for your helpful comment, Brad, and for your more developed response here: <a href="" rel="nofollow">http://www.clarion-journal.com/clarion_journal_of_spirit/2015/12/david-millers-taxonomies-of-deity-response-by-brad-jersak.html</a>.d. millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844676267073730959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143395511928869444.post-23371277471689413052015-12-24T14:41:25.678-06:002015-12-24T14:41:25.678-06:00Well said David. A few thoughts and questions, tha...Well said David. A few thoughts and questions, that I believe may be tracking with you. So some are just restatements or my need for clarification:<br /><br />1. Christians, Jews and Muslims all claim and fully intend to worship the one God of Abraham. The same God.<br />2. Christians, Jews and Muslims embrace divergent and competing revelations about that same God and how to know that God.<br />3. Christians, Jews and Muslims have divergent and drastically different faith practices, offered to that same God, even within and across their own traditions. <br /><br />4. There are a variety perspectives about Jesus among Muslims--while they deny the deity of Christ, many believe that Jesus is more than a prophet--that he's alive, he is the Messiah who will return, will defeat the anti-Christ and reign.<br />5. Historically, Islam's rejection of the Trinity was a rejection of Tri-theistic Christian heresies or misunderstandings of the Trinity and by listening carefully, they can address areas where Christianity does slip from trinitarian monotheism to tritheism.<br />6. There are multiple perspectives about Islam among Christians, from demonic cult to another religion. But one perspective which speaks to this issue is that it is not simply a different religion, but more accurately, a Christian heresy. <br /><br />Perhaps I will overstate this with my own opinion, but the key to your article seems to be the important distinction between God as he is, an ineffable and transcendent Mystery, who loves us all and hears us all in spite of our incomplete and often distorted conceptions of him vis-a-vis our own conceptions itself, if reified into the absolute object of our worship, especially as a justification for fear and hatred, is as idolatrous in any of the three Abrahamic faiths. This is not to abandon our respective core differences as inconsequential, and indeed, I regard the revelation of God in Christ as full and final. Perhaps all three groups may learn to look on the others as 'worshiping what they don't know,' while making space for the possibility that Abraham's God is big enough to regard our poorly scribbled crayon images of him with charity. <br /><br /><br /><br />Brad Jersakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08209875811138723372noreply@blogger.com