If theirs is based on love of all people and love of God, then it isn't very different at all.
2007-10-08 12:36:10
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answered by Acorn 7
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I don't know the answer to that question, other than the fact that Jesus is the Son of God, and the only way to the Father is through the Son Jesus. We must believe in Jesus, believe He is the Son of God, believe He died for our sins, and believe He will come again. I don't think they believe that and have that relationship.
2007-10-08 19:38:23
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answered by Mercedes 6
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How would I know if its "personal" ya know? For that matter, your relationship with God and mine (assuming we are both Christian) is different....because its personal. "their God?" Personally, I seek open kinship with muslims and I accept (in fact LOVE) the idea that the Lord Our God is also Allah.
I am Christian.
(calmly awaits the thumbs down...)
With respect and regards
2007-10-08 20:16:57
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answered by Green is my Favorite Color 4
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At best, the Muslim idea of God is akin to the worst of Old Testament thinking: That God is ethnocentric and vengeful, demanding odd tasks, permitting gross immorality, and demanding military conquest.
The Hebrews who first understood that the Lord our God is one were working out an entirely new idea. Virtually everyone else in the world thought gods had sex with people, and expected worship to be something like an orgy. Dennis Prager explains:
The gods of virtually all civilizations engaged in sexual relations. In the Near East, the Babylonian god Ishtar seduced a man, Gilgamesh, the Babylonian hero. In Egyptian religion, the god Osiris had sexual relations with his sister, the goddess Isis, and she conceived the god Horus. In Canaan, El, the chief god, had sex with Asherah. In Hindu belief, the god Krishna was sexually active, having had many wives and pursuing Radha; the god Samba, son of Krishna, seduced mortal women and men. In Greek beliefs, Zeus married Hera, chased women, abducted the beautiful young male, Ganymede, and masturbated at other times; Poseidon married Amphitrite, pursued Demeter, and raped Tantalus. In Rome, the gods sexually pursued both men and women.
Given the sexual activity of the gods, it is not surprising that the religions themselves were replete with all forms of sexual activity. In the ancient Near Fast and elsewhere, virgins were deflowered by priests prior to engaging in relations with their husbands, and sacred or ritual prostitution was almost universal.
http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles2/PragerHomosexuality.shtml
Despite some missteps, the Hebrews discerned that God created the universe from nothing, by a sheer act of creative love; that he made humanity in his own image and destined him for perfect and eternal happiness; and that only sin could separate man from enduring friendship with God.
The ultimate realization of this relationship was when the Son of God was born as a man, lived a perfect and sinless life with us, and taught us to love one another as God loves us.
Fast forward to the seventh century, when a bandit chief exalted his own moon god above the competing gods, and then declared a holy war to establish himself as dictator of Arabia. Through a campaign that included murder and massacre, he established a theocratic empire, and instituted a new law of jihad, intolerance, and fear.
Does the cult of Islam promote a personal relationship with the real God? By their fruits, you will know them.
Cheers,
Bruce
2007-10-08 22:25:47
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answered by Bruce 7
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Muslims don't have a personal relationship with God. They try to serve him through works and rituals and chanting prayers, but they don't know him and can never be close to him for as long as they are deceived by the Quran.
2007-10-08 19:36:10
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answered by Anonymous
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