re: #401 drcordell

You simply can’t see past the fact that over the course of several thousand years, three faiths that originated from the worship of the same God have managed to establish contrasting tenets.

Judaism, in one form or another, is the Ur-faith, with the Ur-texts, for Christianity and Islam.

The three faiths are not based on anything like the same conception of Divinity, the same experience of Divinity, or the same set of stories regarding the interactions of the Divine with Mankind.

Want proof? Why would there be Hebrew scriptures, Christian scriptures, and Muslim scriptures, if they’re all talking about the same thing? Makes no sense at all, unless the three are, as they appear, different.

Consider this, too: Christianity appears to suggest an unfolding historical nature of the relationship between Humanity and the Divine, culminating in the life, death, resurrection, and ascent of Jesus. Christian scripture always points back to Hebrew scripture to provide prophetic support for its narrative.

Islam, by contrast, claims to be the original religion of mankind, distorted and corrupted over time by Jews and Christians alike. Certainly from a Muslim perspective, there’s little commonality with the two corrupted and corrupting false religions.