tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post6160755330273993024..comments2023-11-03T01:13:22.719-07:00Comments on The Rabbi Is IN with Rabbi Rami: Sacred Scripture?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-72163565560543041012010-09-12T10:27:58.581-07:002010-09-12T10:27:58.581-07:00Thanks for the comment, Julie, I think all scriptu...Thanks for the comment, Julie, I think all scripture is of human origin and hence reflects the best and worst of which humans are capable.Rabbi Ramihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07549679279782491931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-14153885984876226822010-09-12T10:27:02.461-07:002010-09-12T10:27:02.461-07:00Claire, I understand your position, and I used to ...Claire, I understand your position, and I used to hold it. But, after reading Stephen Prothero's book "God is not One" I have come to see that this view does a disservice to religion. Does God have a Son or not? Jews and Muslims cannot imagine this, Christians cannot image God with it. So when you say that they are really worshipping the same God are you dismissing the essential teaching of Christianity? What about a Hindu who worships Kali or Ganesha? Are these the same as the Hebrew YHVH? Are are you saying that really all theology is silly and shouldn't be taken seriously? Prothero says that this dismissal of theology does harm to religion and makes it impossible for us to understand why religions compete and religious people are willing to die for their God rather than pray to another. If there is only the one God and religions don't matter, why has that message not filtered down to the majority of religious people on the planet? <br /><br />Again, I understand what you are saying, and I'm sympathetic to it, but I can no longer ascribe to it.Rabbi Ramihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07549679279782491931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-21610881725467643222010-09-12T10:22:54.197-07:002010-09-12T10:22:54.197-07:00reading some of those passages made my gut knot. ...reading some of those passages made my gut knot. I'm pretty sure it was at the Common Grounds series in Murfreesboro where I was introduced to the idea that text fill with such venom were man made, and the ones full of compassion were from a greater source. That still makes sense to me. Thanks :)Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15269945840171299234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-28617919129102236072010-09-12T10:19:06.753-07:002010-09-12T10:19:06.753-07:00It is not enough that they claim to pray to the sa...<i>It is not enough that they claim to pray to the same God (they don’t).</i><br /><br />Sure, there is a mismatch between what people think of when they use the label "God" and what It actually is. This would be true between any two people, much less among billions of Christians and Muslims, and millions of Jews. <br /><br />I don't think that this means that we are all praying to a different God, though. It just means that different people interact through prayer, worship, meditation, study (etc.) differently with It, and have to different understandings of It is.<br /><br />Someone else who recites the Shema is reminded that there's a big Old Man on a throne that commands him and other Jews to do stuff, and anyone else's idea of what that Big Man is, is false. Every time I recite the Shema, I am reminded of the paradox that, while the Tao manifests as the many, the Tao is one unified existence. <br /><br />I think you're saying we worship two different gods. I don't think so. We just have different understandings of the same One.Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09057593571875920565noreply@blogger.com