Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: why@kpc.com (Will Hyde) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Born Again Message-ID: Date: 22 Apr 91 08:04:57 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: DNA Lines: 39 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article davidbu@loowit.wr.tek.com (David E. Buxton) writes: > > This being born again into Judaism means that from >then on they are considered to be of the lineage of Abraham, that >Abraham is now their father, Abraham being considered the first Jew. > -- Quoting (with permission) from COMING IN SECOND (Justin Case): "...In Iraq, who once was Assyria, Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Sumer ... where it all began. They say life began there, and civilization began there. The Bible scholars say the Garden of Eden was there, in the swampy plain between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, where now stands an enormous oil refinery; and the scholars of Science say the birth of civilization took place there. "It's the heart of creation; to Jew, to Muslim, to Christian. "Abraham, the common patriarch of all three religions, came from there. To the Jew and the Christian, Abraham's first-born son was Isaac; to the Muslim, his first-born was Ishmael. They part with his first offspring, but Abraham, the first Jew, was common seed of both Jesus and Mohammed..." -- If that is accurate, then Abraham is the great grand-daddy of them all, and no 'conversion' is necessary. Islam recognizes Jesus as a 'prophet of God' equal to Mohammed, does it not...? -- _________________________________________________________________________ ... why@kpc.com ...LADY LUCK IS A FICKLE BITCH, AND HER NAME IS KARMA ... ... -** --- * *** -* *----* - *** *- -*-- -* --- - **** ** -* --* ...