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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (504983)	12/6/2003 2:29:43 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

If you pray to a dog and call the dog the "God of Abraham," your doing this does not mean the dog is in fact the God of Abraham. Merely because muslims claim their god is the god of Abraham just does not make it so. And this claim does not make it a matter of fact, as you seem to suggest, that their god is the same as the Christian God. Allah does not believe this: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him" (John 3:16-17). Indeed, Allah never claims even to have sent a Messiah as even the Jews have traditionally thought of Messiah. Jesus in Islam is merely one of many apostles. He is not Messiah in any ancient Hebrew sense and certainly not in the Christian sense. While there is debate between Jews and Christians regarding when Messiah has come, both traditions understand the need for and expectation of Messiah. Allah is foreign to even this tradition.