Fw: Mithras

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>>RON

>>Situations change. It is not inconceivable that God would provide 

>>further guidance for the Church through her heirarchy (for instance 

>>through the Pope and Church Councils, yes I'm Catholic). This does not 

>>preclude private revelations to other individuals sometimes verified by 

>>the Church authorities. 

>>  Unfortunately, in spite of my admiration for Islam I am not convinced. 

>>As for Baha'ulah, he simply believed that all religions reflected the 

>>same God. Maybe so, but we cannot accept the conflicts between the 

>>religions, for instance Hindu monism vs Christian distinction between 

>>God and Creation.   

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>CREA

>    I, too, find the pretensions of the "perennial philosophy" to be

>ultimately unsupportable.

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>    As for Islam, if it is a valid revelation, then according to that revelation,

>Christianity is seriously defective, and should be left in favor of God's one, 

>true and final text, the Quran.  Not only is it maintained, as the veritable 

>WORD OF GOD/ALLAH, that Jesus is in no way, shape, or form to be 

>equated as God or even the Son of God, it is also proclaimed that HE did

>not truly die on the Cross, thus there is no such thing as his atonement,

>and salvation by faith is just a fairy tale told by deluded disciples.

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RON
Agreed. As much as I admire the wisdom of Islam I cannot accept it as 
the complete truth. Muhammad was apparently influenced by some of the 
apocryphal gospels as is evidenced by some of the stories of Jesus' 
childhood related in the Quran. Still I think we can learn much from 
study of Islam and the teachings of its saints, which we can apply to 
our Christianity.

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