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From: gwydion@tavi.rice.edu (Basalat Ali Raja)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: Christian and Muslim simultaneously
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Date: 27 Aug 90 11:38:47 GMT
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In article <14596@wpi.wpi.edu> bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken) writes:
>I can't speak for Islam, but from a Christian point of view this is
>not possible:

>	"Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one
>	comes to the Father except through me'"  
>		John 14:6

As I understand it, there is also the case of a non-Jewish woman
who came to Jesus.  He said that he had been only appointed for
the Jewish people.

Given the above two facts, it is easy to extrapolate if one is
willing to restrict the statement that you have given to just 
the Jewish people; i.e. "No one" refers just to the Jews.  This
also happens to be the viewpoint that the Muslims espouse. 

Furthermore, Muslims also believe in the words of Moses, Jesus
Muhammad, and all the rest of them.  To deny any one of them is
to deny all of them.  Thus, the statement you quote above does
not leave out the Muslims, given the framework they have.