Muslim mistake: That God’s approach with Jesus and God’s approach with Mohammad was the same.
Spot on! God speaks every language and to all people. The trouble appears to be with humanity. For some odd reason HUMANS prefer to see themselves differently... they're not very hot on the idea of oneness. This is obvious in the lineage of Abraham. All the different books order the people to honor their parents and ancestors. What Adam saw, if you will, can only be seen by looking back through the eyes of the generations before us, all of them.
This law however, is seldom obeyed. The consequence? I've read on this forum that Jews don't consider themselves as related to Muslims because they identify with Moses who founded Judaism. I HATED hearing that! Without Abraham, there would be no Moses. Without Abraham, there would be no Mohammed. And finally, without Babylon, there would be no Abraham.
I don't give a rats tail about how people practice their different traditions. If they ALL worship God and they all follow the same laws, the differences are nothing more than window dressing. Some people like blue curtains in their holy places and some people like purple. Some people talk in different languages and use different names. So what? They all MEAN the same thing!
Think of what it takes to build a working community. You have to have a variety of different talents. You'd need doctors and lawyers. But you'd also need butchers and sanitation workers. To have a perfect community, there has to be mutual respect for each other's place and position in the whole of the community. Doctors are important, sure. But they're not more important that butchers because without them, people would starve to death. My point is, they ALL contribute to the whole. Doctors aren't "better-than" butchers and if the community makes them feel they aren't appreciated, they'll leave and that community will go hungry.
On the level of the spirit, it is no different. The books were corrupted because of the above. I remember, from somewhere in my mind, that there was only one book to start with. But there was a big fight (like above) over what words were more important and the book has been torn to shreds. Each of you have what you feel are the more important pieces of it. Parts that were important to different people in different ways, or maybe just all they could remember of it. To me, it looks like a giant jig-saw puzzle now with all it's different pieces scattered all around me. When I see a conflict, that just tells me those two pieces don't fit together. But they each belong somewhere. You can't just throw one of them away. If you keep doing that, we'll never see the pretty picture those puzzle pieces make up in the end.
The trick is to remember where we all came from. Every generation is equally important. It's OK to have favorites... so long as you keep in mind those favorites came from other generations before them (they didn't just fall from the sky), and those generatons are every bit as important. The book can be repaired... but only if the people want to see it. So far, that's the part that's giving me a real nasty head-ache.
Ninth Scribe
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