Pope's Visit - cost

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True Steve, 'cos Jesus was a Jew of his time, at the same time Jewish women have been able to inherit from the fathers/husbands when Christian women were not, which again was cultural rather than religious.
Most westerners, whether practising Christians or not will be unaware that early western Christianity held views similar to both Jews and Muslims concerning Jesus in as much they did not consider him divine. That came later to give authority to the Pontiff.

Roy.

 

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thats not entirely suprising because islam, judaism and christianity are all "people of the book" and the texts of the old testament are used in all three, and other jewish texts are used in islam.

Islam does refer to Christians and Jews as People of the Book and does recognise and give due weight to their scriptures. If you were to ask a muslim what the 4 books of Islam were - the Torah is amongst them. What obviosuly gets touted is something else.

muslims believe that the god worshiped by all "people of the book " is one and the same but that only they worship Him correctly - they also recognise the existence of jesus but see him as a misguided proffet who was unable to interpret the true word of allah, rather than actually being the son of god. ( and for any religious scholars out there - yes i know that this is grossly over simplified)

Muslims worship the God of Abraham - so seeing as the other 2 faiths also worship the God of Abraham.

Simplified almost to the point of almost being wrong - sorry not having a go or anything.

The thing about Jesus - you'd be suprised, muslims don't see him as misguided in any way shape or form, nor as as anyone who couldn't "interpret" the word of God. Far from it. One thing the Muslims (and Jews on the whole) don't ascribe to is Jesus being the son of God.

And as Roy has pointed out, the Son of God thing came later for a whole host of other reasons.

FYI - Allah is arabic for God (i.e. the God of Abraham), were you in a conversation with an Arab Christian in arabic - he would be using that term. Were he conversing in English he may use the same term or use the term God. You may well find the same behaviour with a Muslim. As for the one armed bandits - well lunacy comes first. :wink: