03-18-2003, 02:17 PM
Scorzonera,Mar 18 2003, 08:44 AM Wrote:Maybe it isnât, but the president finished his last speech with asking for Godâs continuously blessing of America, didnât he ?Allah is the God of Abraham, Issac, Jacob. So is the Father of the Christian Trinity. So is the Yahweh of modern Israel. This isn't some outside ecumenicist view, most who know these traditions will attest to it being differing understandings of what is really the same, one God, with a similar line of Jewish prophets.
Upon which the Pope responded that the countries choosing to go to war without global support must answer to God for their actions.
Asserting that there is God from a Christian standpoint thus does not deny these other two.
But of course, God is always on "your side." <_<