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From: gwydion@tavi.rice.edu (Basalat Ali Raja)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: Muslim/Christian
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Date: 4 Sep 90 11:45:36 GMT
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abaza@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
#If you follow the true revelation of Jesus(PBUH). Then you have to follow
#the message of Muhammad(PBUH). If you follow the message of Muhammad (PBUH)
#then you should know that the new rules override the old ones. I wish
#you - the same as I wish to myslef- God's enlightment. 

In article <1990Aug31.114718.10269@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> muts@fysaj.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers /100000) writes:
>This remains a strange line of reasoning to me, to which I never heard
>a reasonable answer. Gods Word is eternal, God is eternal, how
>can He change His own word? 

>If the old rules are overrided, sometimes this could happen when rules
>applied to specific circumstances, but generally this would mean that
>the old rules were wrong and not the truth.
>I don't think that is possible.

Such is not necessarily the case.  You are making a false assumption - that
the rules that are being applied are being applied to a static thing.
This does not necessarily hold, as such as scenario does not acknowledge
the evolving nature of mankind and human communities at all.  Old rules
might no longer be applicable as time goes on, whereas new rules come into
effect.