Increasingly Superficial Answers

A cou­ple of days ago Brian McLaren was asked the fol­low­ing ques­tion on his blog, “… third, that you believe (based on some of your lat­est com­ments) that the god wor­shipped by Mus­lims is the same God that Chris­tians wor­ship. Are these assump­tions true?” In typ­i­cal fash­ion, McLaren has pro­vided non-answers in the form of fur­ther ques­tions. Those ques­tions and the point they are try­ing to get across, how­ever, are extremely super­fi­cial, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing the posi­tion McLaren is in (at least as I under­stand what McLaren is saying).

On your ques­tion about the God wor­shipped by Chris­tians and Mus­lims, here’s what I would say:

1. Do all Chris­tians hold exactly the same con­cept of God when they wor­ship? For exam­ple, does the con­cept of God held by Pros­per­ity Gospel Pen­te­costals dif­fer greatly from that held by double-predestinarian Calvin­ists? Does the con­cept of God held by a paci­fist Men­non­ite dif­fer greatly from … (Read more)