Bible & Qur'an

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends:

 

Dr. Cavale and ShrI Arvind Acharya are quite right in what

they have pointed out about the common heritage of what is

often referred to in the academia as the " Abrahamic " faiths.

However, we must leave the Zoroastrians out. They are actually

a sister religion to Vedic Hinduism!

 

In fact, this semester I am at the tail end of a course

called " Doctrine & Debate in World Religions " that I am

teaching. The 3 Semetic religions too have a long history of

doctrinal controversies. Believe me, it is the same old deal

there too. Further in China we have the Confucians, Taoists

and Buddhists similarly involved in such a dialectical

encounter. Sometimes even within one religion itself there is

deep hair-splitting controversy. For example, the 4 schools of

Confucians in China have a bitter debate over Human Nature:

one saying it is innately good, the other saying it is

innately evil, the third saying it is innately both and fourth

saying it is innately neither. Each quotes Confucius in his

favor marshalling all the logic at his disposition in order to

vindicate his viewpoint. It is truly amazing!

 

 

In fact, Prasad Bhargava a VMS member from NJ is organizing a

2 day lecture by me in his house over the

Jewish-Christian-Muslim polemics over the centuries. This will be

sometime in the Spring. ALL are welcome to attend. Another

such one is being planned by the Detroit chapter of VMS.

Anyone is welcome there too.

 

Some of the issues between the Xians and Muslims that I will

talk on are:

 

1. Is Jesus God or merely an eminent prophet?

2. Which is God's Word the Bible or the Qur'an?

3. Is God Trinitarian or Unitarian?

4. Is the advent of Prophet Muhammad foretold in the Bible or

not?

 

regards

B.N.Hebbar