The one and only almighty God is professed by 53% of the current world
population and consists of:

Muslims - God called Allah, submissive to God
Jews - God called Jehovah, servants of God.
Christians - God called almighty God, family of God.

I simple "yes" would have sufficed---if that is in fact a "yes."

You can't figure it out?

Well, sure, Duke, I can make inferences; I mean, I'm not a dim bulb. But
anybody who has posted to the Internet as long as you and I knows that it's
always risky to assume. (You must have noticed that I try to assume as
little as possible---not that I always succeed :-(.) How often have you
read an exchange in which one party "figures it out," only to have the other
party reply, "I never said that!"? But, how about this? I'll start
interpreting your responses provided you'll agree that you won't complain if
I do.

I've never heard "the family of God" cognomen.

God the Father, God the Son, Mary Mother of God and Queen of Heaven..

I've never heard of this particular trio. (I deliberately avoid using the
word "trinity," because I thought that referred to God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Holy Spirit.) If this is a common "term of art" in a
particular religious faith, I have never heard of it.

Would that be a rough

translation of "Elohim?" So it's safe to say, then, that the Christian
God
is the same as the Catholic God is the same as Yahweh/Elohim?

You still can't figure it out?

Duke, I really don't think it's that simple. After all, the Jewish God is
referred to as Adonai (which I understand to mean "Lord"), Elohim (which I
understand to be a generic term for "God"), and YHWH (which I understand to
be representations of the Hebrew consonants and vowel signs for Yahweh or
Jehovah).

Perhaps I'm overly compulsive, so.... Given my comments above about
reluctance to avoid assumptions, I'll assume that, when you say "Almighty
God," you mean Yahweh.

Wait.... Now that I look back at what you wrote, I'm not sure what you
mean
by the appended phrases "submissive to God," "servants of God," "family of
God."

OK, I now know what you mean by "family of God."

Muslims profess following God's instructions, and it that is to kill, so
be it.

I think it's safe to say that adherents of ALL religions profess following
God's instructions. For example, Abraham, following God's instructions, was
prepared to kill Isaac, until God stayed his hand. While I'm not familiar
enough with the Old Testament to bring other examples to mind, I'd bet there
are other examples in scripture in which the Chosen People actually did
follow God's orders to kill.

Jews see themselves as servants to/of God. And of course, we Christians
are
family of God.

How can I "figure it out" when you use the same term (to wit, "family of
God") to refer to two different concepts? Immediately above "family of God"
means "we Christians." A bit more above, you use the same term to designate
"God the Father, God the Son, Mary Mother of God and Queen of Heaven."

In my experience (posting on the Internet), this is bad practice. Why not
be consistent with terminology? Is the reader to determine from context
which definition is intended? If the reader makes the wrong determination,
who is at fault? The reader or the definer of the ambiguous term? Why not
just use different terms for different concepts?

But you DO seem to be saying that Allah == Jehovah == <Christian God>,
although you seem reluctant to assign a name to the Christian God.

That IS his name, as is Allah to Muslims and Jehovah to Jews. All one
God.

Duke, please! The antecedent of the pronoun "that" is vague! The
proximate noun is "God," modified by the adjective "Christian." Surely no
Muslim would agree that this is the name of God!

As for Jews, consider the distinctions among Adonai, Elohim, and YHWH.
Though I'm by no means a scriptural scholar, I consistently read that Jews
do not use the actual, proper name of God, YHWH, opting instead for Adonai
or Elohim.

Is this
something you do out of respect, along the lines of saying
"tetragrammaton"
rather than "JHVH" or typing G-d instead of God?

???

Once again, you see my compulsive avoidance of assumptions. In your last
message, you never said, "The name of God is <name>." I've seen many posts
in which the author declines to name God lest the name be taken (more or
less) in vain (e.g., Tetragammaton or G-d). I didn't want to assume that
you were avoiding naming God for some reason, so I asked if your reluctance
to name God is a gesture of respect or humility. This is quite common among
orthodox Jews. For all I know, this is also a practice of yours.

Just trying to get some certainty here. After all, most religionists use
the term "God" for their Supreme Being.

Yep, the Egyptians looked at the black wooden jackal and called it their
god. As
they did to the river.

Indeed, and the jackal god was Anubis, by name. I (reluctantly) will assume
you mean Hapi as the Egyptian river god.

And sometimes I wonder whether
you're advising adherence to Christianity in general or Catholicism in
particular (which I take to be a subset of Christianity).

The Catholic Church is the Church founded by Christ. At one time, it was
katholocis in Greek = (c)atholic =universal = one = (C)atholic Church when
named
= Roman Catholic Church as breakaway groups were forming.

OK, given your apparent impatience with my reluctance to draw conclusions,
I'll assume from this that you're a Catholic.

I think this is important.

Consider that, in discussing scripture, Catholics will prefer a version of
the Bible with an imprimatur and a nihil obstat, such as the Douai version
or the Jerusalem Bible.

Evangelical Christians will generally prefer the
King James version. Other Christian denominations seem (to me, anyway) to
prefer more recent translations and versions. I will try to refer to the
appropriate canon.

"L. Raymond" <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> said:

Jim07D6 wrote:

duke <duckgumbo32@cox.net> said:

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The one and only almighty God is professed by 53% of the current world
population and consists of:

Muslims - God called Allah, submissive to God
Jews - God called Jehovah, servants of God.
Christians - God called almighty God, family of God.

Why has there been so much killing of each other for being infidels?

People who make the claim that all Jews, Christians and Moslems
worship the same god are such fools. The Christian god impregnated a
mortal and produced a child; the Jewish and Moslem gods didn't. The
Moslem god sent additional prophets culminating in Mohammed to spread
the word, the Jewish and Christian gods didn't. The Jewish god promised
to send a messiah and hasn't yet, but the Christian god has.

And that's not even touching on doctrinal differences.

I think that if we put any two people who say they worship the same
god under scrutiny, we'd find disagreements, some of which could lead
to violence between them.