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Noise, noise, all of this; noise to me.
I would suggest that you filter the noise of false teachings and open His Word....hear and see the quiet truth as told by God Himself!
This statement wasn't referring to the God of each respective religion. It was referring to God, as he is. The God who made us all. Not the God of Christianity, or the God of Islam, or the God of Judaism. Think outside of religion. God trancends time, knowledge, understanding, religion. Religion cannot contain God. His work can be seen through the Buddhist, as much as it can be seen through the Christian. Wherever there is love, kindness, compassion, creation, right; there is God. The statement made was made abstractly. In our own religions, are we serving God. Is it possible that God can be as pleased by the act of kindness from a Muslim, as a Christian. Or vice versa. Because when you look at it, while they claim it, no religion seems to have it down perfect. I've been a Christian for most of my life, but that's because it was indoctrinated in me. I was taught as a young child, before I could understand and experience other points of view. Even as a young teen, I rejected the religion of Christianity. As a religion. I believed in God and all that, but I did not see it as a religion. I saw it as creator and created. Just living every day, not following some religious plan or tradition, but my creator.
Another suggestion....grow up! This la, de, da, I love you and you love me and we all need to be happy world is a fairy tale. We are in a battle and He expects YOU to fight in this battle. If you don't, if you just drift from religion to religion and the thoughts of different
men then you are in serious jeopardy. READ HIS WORD, LISTEN TO HIM, NOT MAN. You can lose your soul in the New Age theory of the "creator" loves everyone, we're all special to him....blah! The Lord of this universe, the God of every soul in this world including yours, mine and every Muslim, Hindu, etc, the Father of us all....
has rules. He has great big If's attached to His promises. So....just drift around in the stupor of "God being pleased in the kind acts of Muslims" and you will be in for a rude awakening.
The point is, however, that both Catholics and Protestants both claim to have the word of God, but they have different copies. There are different books in the Catholic bible, that are regarded as "un-inspired" by the Protestants. Now, how do we determine whether a book was uninspired by the Holy Spirit or not? Well, they conducted a little experiment, and did a "which one of these does not belong" sort of thing. And came out with the books in there now. But the key word is inspired. Not hand-written from God, inspired by God.
Oh please....don't give me that tripe. If you spent anytime at all in His Word you would see His hand....you would know the Author. Again, I don't give a rat's patootie about Catholic or Protestant. I don't study their doctrine and I don't worship in their churches and I certainly don't listen to their teachings or teachers. I look at the ridiculous clowns on television and wonder why a bolt of lightening doesn't come through their mega-church roofs and strike them dead. His letter was written to us for us to read. The more you read the more understanding is opened
by Him to you. You must work for that and apparently you haven't been.
Was Mohammed not inspired by God?
NO!!!!
HE WAS NOT INSPIRED BY GOD.
Was Paul not inspired by God?
Yes, Paul was inspired by God.
Islam claims Mohammed was, while Christianity claims that he was not. And actually, in John's revelation, he says if anyone else adds or takes away from the bible from now on, they will recieve due punishment from God. But things have been added and taken away since then. Yes, the Bible contains the most intact copies of original manuscript of any book, (in second is Homer's Ilyad I think), but that doesn't mean anything towards the message really.
Oh really...."that doesn't mean anything towards the message really"...you think so? You oh so wise person...are you 15 or 16 yet or perhaps even in college where the professors have been working on you. Either way....get over yourself because you know nothing of the truth unless it is in His Word!
Why, that is quite a sheltered view. Someone said earlier they did not want to read anything not from the Lord. How can you decide if it's from the Lord or not? I mean, I'm sure God's spoken through the Hardy Boys novels before. Seriously, we can't limit ourselves to what we percieve to be "Christian", because then we miss out on a lot. And our views will never be challenged. We will never have that aspect of strengthening, or growing, or thinking differently and rethinking.
Again, such wise instructions from so knowledgeable a person. My, my! If you want to waste your time read the Koran instead of the Bible, learn all about other religions and not God's Word and then one day you can face our Father and tell Him all about what you learned. I'm sure He will be really, really interested.
but for me..I'm trying to have ears to hear, and eyes to see.But I'm confused about what I hear, and what I see isn't clear.
That is because you are listening to junk. You are listening to man...not God.Mark 13:5
And Jesus answering them began to say, "Take heed lest any man deceive you:You need to know and understand that anyone that does not believe in Jesus, the Son of God, will receive His wrath in the day of the Lord. Also know that Satan is coming to earth to deceive Christians. Why Christians? Because ALL OTHERS ARE ALREADY IN HIS CAMP...THEY ALREADY BELONG TO HIM.

Revelation 12:17
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.The only ones that have the "testimony of Jesus Christ" are Christians. All the others he doesn't have to "make war" with as they are already his. It is your choice. You sail your own ship and you dig your own grave as all of us do. Make some wise decisions.:study: ........Whirlwind