Speaking at a news conference in London George W Bush said
I do say that freedom is the Almighty's gift to every person," the president replied. "I also condition it by saying freedom is not America's gift to the world. It's much greater than that, of course. And I believe we worship the same god."
Predictably,
Bush's remarks sent immediate shock waves through Christian Web sites and radio broadcasts. A Baptist Press report quoted Richard D. Land, president of the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, as saying that Bush "is simply mistaken.""We should always remember that he is commander in chief, not theologian in chief," Land said in a telephone interview yesterday. "The Bible is clear on this: The one and true god is Jehovah, and his only begotten son is Jesus Christ."
Clearly Mr Land is not Theologian in Chief either because GWB was correct. Islam, Judaism and Christianity have a common monotheistic origin and as such Allah and Jehovah (and Yahweh for that matter) are simply different references to the same god.
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or read the most recent entries here.Surely you jest Green Man? I would be insulting my Muslim and Jewish friends if I, a Chrisitan, told them I worshipped the same god. There's a little matter of prophets and a bigger matter called the Trinity. We agree to disagree.
Of course that presents a problem in that each of us claims an exclusive faith, each of us claim to worship the true God. So all of us can't be right. But if one thinks only one of us can be right, best to also rememember, all of us could be wrong.
Who decides? God does of course.
Resident Chief Theologian extraordinaire.
He even gave us a walking-talking answer so we could be sure to understand it. ;-)
Posted by: saint at November 25, 2003 11:43 AM
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