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Defining God

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Angelfire

Difference? Well for one there is no Hindu God, there's more then one.

Second their's difference along the lines of who the high spiritual authority is. For Jews its Rabbi, for Islam its the Caliph, for Christianity its the pope (for catholics) or local priest for orthodox/protestant.

There's also differences along whether or not you are doomed to go to hell from the day of your birth.

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Point is there are differences, the main one is that each one thinks its the special one and all the others are bastard religions.

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cturtle

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they willingly admit that there is 2 parts to the bible, the Old Testament and New

the OT is basically the torah (?), those writing which are accepted by Hebrews as being an accurate testimony (authentic jewish traditions)
Catholics include scripture of the jewish tradition which do not have minor books which are not within the main stream jewish traditions, which is where the fire & brimstone as well as purgatory come. (I gather that muslims see this existence as such [or as hell] but I am not familiar with the Qran & their belief system). The catholic bible contains these OT books which other christians bibles do not.
Jews believe Christ has yet to come while christians believe that he came as Jesus & will return, Jews & Muslims see Jesus as a prophet.

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That number is indeed in the bible. Most christians ignore it though

Do you know where this magic number is found in scripture?

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for Christianity its the pope (for catholics) or local priest for orthodox/protestant.

Christianity divided on the issue of having a pope. Catholics wanted a single priest as ruling author while the (Greek) Orthodox chose to have a ruling assembly of high priest.

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doomed to go to hell from the day of your birth.

Both Jewish tradition and christian belief that one must reach an age to make decisions for yourself (come an adult ability to make judgements before you are responsible for your actions (sins) but the infant mortality of the dark ages in Europe produced such firvour among the people that infant baptism were given to quite their fears about the fate of their departed infants.

"Terrorist or tyrant, few may come to the Truth that both are poor choice."
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