traveling north

Jeff Wilson · 04 Jun 2010, 02:09 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:09:02 -0500
Subject: (urth) traveling north
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On 6/3/2010 3:23 PM, John Watkins wrote:
> Are we to believe that Mohammed derived veneration of Jesus Christ and
> His mother from "corrupted Judaism" as well?   Mohammed's visitation by
> the Archangel Gabriel--that too is from Jewish tradition, primarily, and
> not Christian?

Gabriel appears in the OT as a messenger from G-d to the prophet Daniel. 
It makes sense for him to appear to Mohammed, also a prophet.

Obviously Jesus is a Christian influence but demoting him to prophet 
status is not indicative of a great deal of Christian influnce. Without 
consideration of Christianity at all, you'd still have an Islam formed 
in response to the proliferation of intercessors and corrupt priesthoods.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
IEEE Student Chapter Blog at
< http://ieeetamut.org >

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