Comments on: Are God and Allah the same? Consider the facts- http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/are-god-and-allah-the-same-consider-the-facts/ The Marketplace of Ideas Tue, 21 May 2013 01:03:03 +0300 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lonni Norton http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/are-god-and-allah-the-same-consider-the-facts/#comment-98376 Lonni Norton Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:41:43 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104680#comment-98376 Not all who call themselves Christian are, in truth, followers of the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. Praying to Saints, Madonnas and Jesus' statutes is not a tenant of Children born by the will of God by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, their Savior.

]]> By: Lonni Norton http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/are-god-and-allah-the-same-consider-the-facts/#comment-98374 Lonni Norton Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:38:33 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104680#comment-98374 The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Allah are not one and the same. The God of the Bible states plainly that Jesus is His Son, that God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are One. Muhammed is dead yet Jesus lives, seated at the right hand(authority)of the Father, soon to return and rule from Jerusalem. Allah nor Muhammed make that claim nor can they.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/are-god-and-allah-the-same-consider-the-facts/#comment-98124 Anonymous Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:59:13 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104680#comment-98124 "a foundational tenet which is shared by Judaism and Christianity is the Ten Commandments". Not so. Christianity doesn't respect the Sabbath, 4th Commandment. (Not even Sunday is observed as a day of sanctity and rest, avoiding work, markets, kindling fire and other specific biblica precepts of the Sabbath). And the 2nd Commandment, of not making images of what's in this world, rendering them as godly, is trampled with a myriad of saints, madonnas and Jesus statues. No, Jews don't share the ten commandments with Christians at all.

]]> By: Arieh Kovler http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/are-god-and-allah-the-same-consider-the-facts/#comment-98122 Arieh Kovler Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:08:20 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104680#comment-98122 …except this piece ignores all of the classical Jewish thought on the question. No mention of the Rambam? Of historical Jewish approaches to the question? It includes "quotes" from the Quran but doesn't cite surah and verse. Could it be, perhaps, that the actual quotes don't say what you suggest? After googling where you took these from and then following the sources, many of them don't actually say that at all.

I can see that when you posted the original version of this OpEd at YNet a few weeks ago, people raised the same objections, so I'm a bit surprised you haven't dealt with any of them in this repost.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/are-god-and-allah-the-same-consider-the-facts/#comment-98120 Anonymous Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:52:34 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104680#comment-98120 Are God and God the same? They weren't even the same thing for Jews in 1000 BCE, 550 BCE, 100 AD, 1945…
We project onto the godhead whatever idiosincracy and psychological fixations we happen to believe in, in any given time. It's not that Allah is one set of violent, malist, supremacist fixations, and the rest got God right. Nobody has ever gotten God "right". "Adonai Ish Milchama, Adonai Shemó" -Exodus 15:3- ("YHWH is a 'man of war', YHVH is His name") is recited in every synagogue, every morning. Christians have been even worse than Muslims in the past, and the show the Vatican is giving, shows they are as far from "God is God" as that hierarchical, organized religion can be.

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