bmzsp wrote: Servetus wrote:  - pl tell me how Allah is praying to Allah.... Replace the word �Allah� with �God� and that shouldn�t be too difficult for a Christian to understand, though it might prove inordinately difficult to explain.  Consider, for example: �Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.� (Matt 26:36) Serv Brother Serv, Right on mark.   Best Regards BMZ

Erm...sorry to break up the celebrations, chaps, but......Allah is not a multi-personal God.  He is not a father, he does not, and cannot have a son, nor is he a son who can have a father.  He is furthermore incapable of becoming a man, and therefore incapable of praying to God.  So.... where does that leave us.....

There�s no need to apologize.  The celebrations were, in turn, merely an interruption of your and hardnut�s apparent joke.

Dizzy?

As I understand, according to Moses Maimonides, Jewish Talmudist and authoritative spokesman for Orthodox Judaism, the God of Islam and thus of Muhammad bears a greater resemblance to that of Moses than does that of Christianity.  He wrote:

�The Christians are idolaters ... The Muslims are not considered pagan in any sense.  No trace of paganism is left in their speech and in their hearts.  They confess the Unity of God in its strict and unconditional meaning � They may be deluded and in error in various matters, but concerning monotheism they are not at all mistaken.�

Serv

Ref:  Minkin, Jacob S., The Teachings of Maimonides, Jason Aronson, Inc., 1987, ISBN 0-87668-953-5, p. 319