tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6819736410949843334.post5761735238011906716..comments2023-05-24T08:37:01.557-04:00Comments on SOUL and SUBSTANCE: Muhammad the Prophet, by Prof. K. S. Ramakrishna RaoLucyShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13430494084054005372noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6819736410949843334.post-83030941436306167642008-04-04T22:27:00.000-04:002008-04-04T22:27:00.000-04:00No need to be ashamed, I don't know enough about I...No need to be ashamed, I don't know enough about Islam (or Judaism, or Christianity, or even every kind of Buddhism) to act like an authority. Religion is a big, complex thing, I'm not sure we can ever claim to know everything there is to know about it. On the topic of personal relationships with God, that is very much to the point. Consider that Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity believe Lotus_in_the_hillshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09589922616634551575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6819736410949843334.post-19852562211299720102008-04-04T12:42:00.000-04:002008-04-04T12:42:00.000-04:00I'm ashamed to admit that, when I started research...I'm ashamed to admit that, when I started researching Muhammad, I discovered that I had a great many erroneous views of what Islam is all about. This has been a very educational project for me. Your comments about the God of either Islam or Christianity (or Judaism, for that matter) being outside our realm of understanding, are certainly logical and make sense. The only thing I will say about theLucyShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13430494084054005372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6819736410949843334.post-30315706763762447332008-04-04T12:05:00.000-04:002008-04-04T12:05:00.000-04:00This problem of whether God is in the world or out...This problem of whether God is in the world or outside of the world is quite relevant to Christianity, too. Christianity, like Islam, attributes several positive (positive in the sense of good, as well as positive in the sense of really existent) qualities to God, like compassion, love, omniscience, wrath, etc. These would seem to attribute human qualities to God and place him within the Lotus_in_the_hillshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09589922616634551575noreply@blogger.com