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Originally Posted by greatamerican128
Because everything modern is correct?
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"Correct" is a judgement call. Just because something is modern does not mean it is necessarily "correct." But by the same token, just because something is old doesn't mean it's "correct" either. I've never understood the "absolute morality" crowd's desire to keep living under barbaric 4,000-year-old legal codes. What is considered just and moral changes over time. For most of human history, slavery was just fine. Now we consider it immoral.
Which is why even the absolute morality folks find ways to ignore inconveniently barbaric passages, even while insisting that the passages they still support are "absolute".
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First of all, I never said it is impossible to have a relationship with God. I simply stated that we cannot judge His actions to be wrong.
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I understand. I just disagree with the second sentence. You wouldn't worship a God who demanded regular human sacrifice, would you? If not, then you are making judgments about God's actions. It doesn't matter that God is far beyond human ability to comprehend. I ain't worshipping something that wants me to sacrifice my neighbors to it.
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However, the Bible doesn't specifically tell believers to force the word on other people. It does tell believers not to judge non-believers though, which would indicate that the Bible is against the use of force in saving others.
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In politics, that's called "plausible deniability." If God didn't want his followers using force to spread the word, he could have said so quite clearly. Maybe made it the 11th Commandment, or at least the First Guideline.
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Firstly, God sent his son to die on the cross for humanity, according to the Qu'ran Jesus was a simple prophet and not the savior of mankind. This is a clear difference between the God of Christianity and Allah. Second, God in the Bible is the trinity. This differs from the Qu'ran which states that Allah is a single entity.
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Fair enough. But Islam isn't an offshoot of Christianity; it views itself as a third, co-equal revelation that builds on -- and corrects, and updates -- the other two.