How important is it for Christians and Moslems to talk? I personally don’t believe that the world can make the progress necessary for survival unless the Moslems change their theology. Of course, they probably would say the same about me and other Christians, and if either side is right, the answer is the same: talk, conversation, theological study, even compromise. Both sides must be willing to walk away from tradition, give up dogma and seek the truth, a very difficult assignment indeed.
The obvious place for Christians to start is the Bible, and for the Moslems, the Koran. How can we possibly hope to play as a team and seek solutions for the world’s problems when both sides insist on playing with a different rule book? I am not suggesting that we should not read the bible or the Koran or any thing else we choose to read, I am merely saying that dogma, set in the stone of the written word is very difficult to get beyond.
The issues are peace and progress and mutual understanding. Would it not be worth compromise, not on truth, which is bigger than Christians and Moslems and all other forms of religious thought, but on dogma? World progress is a very serious business.
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I think that a "proto-faith" ought to be explored, building on the faith of Abraham and the world view of the first 21 chapters of the Bible. This gets back to an age prior to the development of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.
I think it is like the study of Math. The first concepts are aromatic and algebra. Higher math gets into trigonometry, calculus, ect. The fact that there is higher math does not make the simpler math untrue – hence, the fact that Christianity offers greater knowledge of God than what Abraham had, does not make the simple faith of Abraham less true.
Whoops, forgot to sign last, it is me, John. :-)
Meant to write: "arithmetic"
Hi Papa -
I like your blog site - very opinionated. You are into the 21st century now!
Signed -
AKD
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