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The vast majority of religious scholars would disagree with Greg's equation of Allah with Satan, regardless of the reactive extremism of jihadism's tactics.

In the same spirit, they would disagree with Orthodox Judaism's equation of Christians with polytheists.

The Quran explicitly states that Jesus is not the Son of God -- and is not divine.  It also states that the Gospel account of the Crucifixion and the resurrection is false.  And the Quran claims for itself the status of being the literal spoken word of God.

In light of that, Ken, I have some questions for you.

1)  Is Jesus the only begotton Son of God, and is he "God from God, Light from Light, True God from True God, one in being with the Father"?

2)  Did Jesus die on the cross, did he descend to the dead, and did he rise again on the third day, all in order to bring us salvation?

3)  Is the New Testament the inspired Word of God?  Is Jesus the Word Made Flesh?  If so, how can the Quran be the literal spoken word of God as it claims?

4)  In light of these fundamental contradictions between the teachings of the Quran and the Bible (each of which is supposed to be the Word of God)  we are left with three options:  a)  the God of the Bible is Satan, the Father of Lies; b)  Allah, the god of the Quran, is Satan, the Father of Lies; or, c)  both books of scripture are the work of Satan, the Father of Lies.  To which school of thought do you subscribe?

Oh, and by the way, Ken -- Islamic teaching ALSO equates the worship of Jesus with polytheism.

Now I'll be interested to see how Ken responds to this, given his earlier comments stating Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists are crypto-Christians doing the work of God by killing Jews and seeking to destroy Israel.  He did this by taking the long-standing Christian belief in baptism by desire (in which someone explicitly believes in the saving power of Jesus Christ) and infusing it with elements of Karl Rahner's "anonymous Christianity" (the notion that someone can explicitly reject belief in the saving power of Jesus Christ yet still be saved because their life mirrors a hidden belief in Jesus that even they did not know they had).

But then again, I suppose it is possible that he will have some explanation, given that he has previiously espoused elements of both Marcionism (the belief that the OT is false and the God of the OT is not the God of the NT) and Arianism (the belief that Jesus was merely a man and only the adopted son of God) and yet claimed to be fully orthodox in his belief.

The siteowner sides with an anti-Christian state
founded on strains of the same Pharisiasm which
prodded the crucifixion of Christ. This
state,subsidized by America, creates the
anti-Christian animus of the Palestinians in question
here.

Because the siteowner sides with a community whose
Talmud contains open attacks on not only the Divinity
of Christ, but on his status as a noble teacher, he
impertinently seeks to act as an inquisitor on my
degree of Christian orthodoxy, as a diversionary
tactic and probably in a self-diversionary role as
well.

In this context, the fact he calls Lebanese Maronites
who have come to side with Hezbollah because of
Israel's barbarism "false Christians" is an
ancillary product of his a priori sanctioning of
Jewish racism which sets the stge for consequent
political and spiritual sinning by the siteowner.

I accept no inquisitions from such a person.

In other words, you are too cowardly to answer.  You are unwilling to even answer questions that come directly from scripture and the fundamental creeds of Christianity. 

This leads me to believe that you are not, in fact, a Christian at all -- not even of the gheretical Christian Identity form that I have previously presumed -- but that you are, in fact, a Muslim masquerading as a Christian.

After all, giving orthodox Christian answers would require you to commit the sin of apostasy from Islam -- and so you therefore temporize and find excuses not to answer at all so as to avoid the trap I have set for you.  Avoiding it, however, clearly sets you apart as one who is either unwilling or unable to profess faith in Christ, and therefore either ashamed of the Gospel or not a believer in it.

You have been setting ineffectual traps for me for months. Along the way you have established yourself as a hybrid Judeo-Christian pagan, exalting the state of Israel in mystical fashion. I would also not answer inquisitorial questions from similar hybrids such as Robertson and Falwell, so to the degree you respect these, you can feel in good compnay.

You might be surprised that I'm not a fan of either.

And you make it clear that you fear answering these questions because to do so would show you to be no Christian.  Either that, or you are ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which ammounts to the same thing.

And let me answer the questyions myself.

1)  Yes!
2)  Yes!
3)  Yes!  Yes!  And therefore it cannot be.
4)  In light of my earlier answers, the only possible choice is Option b)  "Allah, the god of the Quran, is Satan, the Father of Lies."

Have you the faith of a baptized Christian to declare these truths?  Or is your faith false and worthless, like salt that has lost its savor?