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JOYCE

>Sunni Muslems do not rank prophets.  Sunni Muslems do not wholly embrace 

>the bible.  what muslims are you speaking of.

>

ACHILLES
The ones I have know IRL and come across on the web are mostly Sunni, they
all seem to agree with what I said. They do not "wholly embrace the bible"
no, but they do give it special status as a holy book, although they argue
that it has been corrupted in transmission (witness all the contradictions)
and superceded by the superior Quran. The moslems I have known tend to be
more familiar with the bible than most xtians, the places where it agrees
with the Quran support their case, and the places where it disagrees with
the Quran or contradicts itself supports their belief that the jews tampered
with their scriptures, which violated their covenant with God and made it
necessary to send Mohammed and the Quran. 

Allah (SWT) says: "And argue not with the people of the book unless 
it be in (a way) which is better (than mere arguing), except with such 
of them that do wrong, and say (to them): 'We believe in that which 
had been revealed to us and revealed to you, and our God and your 
God is One, and to Him we have submitted (as Muslims)" Al-Ankaboot(29):46. 

"And because of their breaking their covenant, We have cursed them 
and made hard their hearts. They change words from their places and 
have abandoned a good part of the message that was sent to them. 
And you will not cease to discover deceit in them, except a few of 
them. But forgive them and overlook(their misdeed). Verily! Allah 
loves the kindly".  The Qur'an, Al-Maidah(5):13. 

As to ranking prophets, I am not sure what you mean. If you mean they
consider all the prophets sent equally important to each other (including
Mohammed) perhaps there is a doctrine to that affect, but I have not
encountered it. At any rate Jesus is listed by moslems as a prophet, the
immediate predeccessor of Mohammed himself. 

http://www.uidaho.edu/~yusuf921/25names.html

Toward the question of "is Allah God?" the following article is relevant. 

http://kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw/~stevens/ia/allah.htm

Achilles

"...we are not simply contending in order that my view or that
of yours may prevail, but I presume we ought both of us to be
fighting for the truth..."
from Philebus, the Dialogues of Plato 

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