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PaulK
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Message 24 of 47 (114989)
06-14-2004 4:09 AM
Reply to: Message 23 by almeyda
06-14-2004 1:41 AM


Jews don't agree that Jesus was the Son of God in the literal sense that Christians use (and only a few would say that Jesus was the Son of God in any special sense or even accept him as a prophet). So by your argument Christians do not worship the God of the Old Testament (which is Jewish scripture) - and by your reasoning if they did they would not need the New Testament books.
Jews, Christians and Muslims have different ideas ABOUT God (and the Christians are the odd ones out in rejecting the strict monotheism of the other two Faiths). But they all claim to be following the God of the Jewish scriptures.

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Message 26 of 47 (115010)
06-14-2004 8:15 AM
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06-14-2004 7:38 AM


Well the fact is that in the thread you started to discuss prophecies supposedly fulfilled by Jesus there was not one you were prepared to argue as a definite example of a significant fulfilled prophecy, might have something to do with it.
The fact that there are genuine messianic prophecies that still remain unfulfilled is also relevant. (Christians say that they will be fulfilled at the Second Coming, but why should Jews believe that ?)
It really isn't true to say that Jesus was so obviously the Messiah that the Jews should have converted. Accept that and it is no harder to explain than the question of why all Christians are not Mormons or Moonies.

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Message 30 of 47 (115274)
06-15-2004 3:39 AM
Reply to: Message 28 by Buzsaw
06-14-2004 11:39 PM


Re: My Two Cents Worth
Hoiw often does the New Testament - the Christian scriptures - use the name "Jehovah" Buz ?
How often do they use "God" or an equivalent as the Quran does ?
(Just to help you a Bible Gateway search returns zero hits for "Jehovah" in the NT and 1239 for "God").
Where does Islam reject the Jewish name YHWH ?

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