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As I understand it then, you would have more sympathy with the Pope's outlook...With all due respect, that doesn't make any sense to me. I'm just amazed how people do NOT see the similarities between Christianity and Islam and reject the whole possibility of both these religions to be true. I personally enjoy reading both OT, NT, and Quran and I'm always amazed that reading and considering all these three together, regardless of differences we find, helps to understand the other ones better. I understand there are profound differences, but I just can't accept that the God of Christianity or the God of Jews is not the same God of Islam. How can people focus on specific verses and actions and not see the whole perspective is just beyond me. I'm not saying we have to ignore the differences, but I just don't draw a line as soon as I see some specific contrasts. I did not have a chance to read all the OT, NT or Quran yet, and I could possibly wrong, but the more I try, the more I see the kinship amongst these beliefs.
Al Gore famously coined the phrase "An inconvenient truth". Perhaps in all this interreligious dialogue, the elephant in the room is the inconvenient truth Jesus lays claim to.
John 14
6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.