Reclaiming Christianity

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"y do they have the same Bible"

Christianity is a direct descendant off of Judaism. Jesus was a Jew, remember that. The Old Testament was written by Jews yes...but before the time of Christ. Now, here comes the kicker...the Old Testament foretold Jesus' coming and all the miracles he would perform as well as the end of days. How can you believe in the New Testament without knowing the prophecy of the Old??? You can't, it's like trying to understand Quantum physics with absolutely no study or background.

The Old Testament is a precursor to Christianity...we wouldn't have Christianity if not for the Jews. Again, the Old Testament serves as a base to build a foundation (the doctrine of the New Testament) upon.

Based on your thinking, the Protestants should have a separate Bible, well, the Mormons have tried and failed. It has been proven historically and theologically wrong 33 times. Each of those times it's been rewritten to suit the "new-found knowledge". BTW, and this is off-topic, the founder of Mormonism, I am completely drawing a blank on his name :scream_cat: :confused:, has been proven, through historical documentation to be crazy.

Anyway, back to the original topic...

Jews, Muslims, and Christians = Same God, different views of Jesus, the Messiah, and Muhammed.

John Smith??Many people do not realize that Jews, Christians and Muslims have the same religeous roots.

That's what I thought at first, but I'm not sure.They do, but a lot of peeps (all religions alike) have a hard time admitting it.

Just found it...Joseph Smith was mentally ill.

http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Cults/mormon.htm

A site explaining my view on the Mormon "faith"

They probably know that Christianity was a breaking away from Judaism, but most probably don't realize the connection with the Muslims.

Some factoids for the curious about the relationship between Islaam and Christianity:Besides the overlap of early biblical texts between Islaam and Christianity, Islaamic tradition also includes an overlap with other Christian beliefs. Islaam holds Jesus as a major and highly revered prophet (though not the Messiah). Furthermore, according to Islaamic tradition, Mary is said to be the purest woman of all creation.Edit: Ramm, I just read your post above. I think you've made some really excellent points that we might all take to heart. In particular, selectively quoting the Quran is no different then selectively quoting the bible, and it makes no sense to use these quotes against Islaam as a whole (anymore than it would to use strange quotes against Christianity). Many people in this country implicitly subscribe to the viewpoint that troubles you: that all Muslisms are religious extremists. This is obviously ridiculous and untrue. I tend to think the same thing about Muslim extremism as I do about Christian extremism: It's not a reflection of the core religious beliefs of those religions, but of politics.

Most of the time, if not all the time, extremists do not reflect true religious beliefs. Hence my reasoning for the "muslims are bad, look at the suicide bombers" argument as being stupid and null.

Its Joseph SmithI was raised RLDS- Reorganized Mormons Basically

Sorry, next time I need to read all the way through the posts before I reply- didn't reliaze you'd already found it

i thought a saved Christian was someone who originally didnt believe in God, or Christian faith, who then went through a bad patch and turned to religion for guidance. Probably wrong, but... shrugs