Gilberto,
At 02:44 AM 1/14/2005, you wrote:
>>The fact that you have to add any kind of caveat ("most conservative")
>>underlines the fact that there is a difference. For the overwhelming majority
>>of Muslims, not believing in the finality of Muhammad's prophethood excludes
>>one from Islam. The analagous claim is not true for Christianity.<<
I almost always qualify my statements. However, I am not aware of any
self-defined conservative evangelical or fundamentalist Christian group,
denomination, or sect which does not believe in the finality of Christ. To most
of these Christians, Paul's epistles are not regarded as apart from Christ's
authority.
Of course there are differences in particulars between many of the religions in
the Christian network and many of those in the Islamic network. However, the
concept of finality is commonly found in both (almost universally among
self-defined fundamentalists and neo-evangelicals). NT references to prophets,
pastors, etc. do not detract from the centricity of Christ in these
conservative Christian denominations and sects.
>>At this point, I really don't care. The fact that they even have continuing
>>prophecy and prophets is a significant difference from Islam. That's all I've
>>been saying.<<
There are certainly many differences. However, I don't think that is one of
them. The Isna Ashariyya Imams also made many prophecies.
As I said before, aside from their common English translations, I see no
connection between the a NT "prophetes" and a qur'anic "nabii."
With regards, Mark A. Foster • 15 Sites: http://markfoster.net
"Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger" -- Abbie Hoffman
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