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It's the Semitic gender. But we know that God is not male and His Spirit is not female.

I think a "love for all" is too much. If this love doesn't result in an adequate engagement, it is shallow. If you really take it serious, you will result in a burn-out. We are limited. It's better to concentrate on those who are near. We can try to be respectful and friendly to all, give...

What if You remove/discard it, but other brothers (including myself) don't? Off course it's an utopia. But it's not just a slogan. For the personal attitude, you cannot love all, but be ready to respect anyone who comes across your way. It doesn't mean to approve all deeds, in fact this is even...

I wrote something about that in another thread... Although I was supposed to be a Muslim by birth, I grew up with Christians. I even attended Christian religion. So I hesitate to say that Christianity is a foreign religion to me. My mother as well as her parents were "modern" people. I know the...

The problem is that Truth Social has close to zero correlation with truth. Meaning that if Trump says something you can neither conclude that it is probably true nor that it is probably false.

Seems that unfortunately @MAC4 has left, so I can answer. Sunni Muslim is a big group. All Sunni disagree with the Ahmaddiya in that they don't accept the claim of the founder of the sect, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, to be the Mahdi. In general, Sunni accept members of Shia sects as Muslim. Some...

Heaven and hell? I thought Indian religions teach rebirth or perfection ?

What we experience: We are able to reach a state of openness of the mind to let our mind step back from our daily haste and leave a space for other thoughts. We can direct our thoughts in the sense of what we know from the prophets and other wise persons. Prayer is the combination of both: We...

I think that the Sufi schools arose out of serious more or less ascetic scholars. Until about 1000 CE, there was no strict difference between different access to belief; scholars may have had a strict, literal and mystic access at the same time. The break between more "legalist" and more...

Don't forget John, the prophet and Jesus. Indeed, Islamic ascetic traditional root in monastic Christian traditions of the East (today Iraq, Syria, Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia). There must also have been Jewish ascetic groups. Ibn Hanbal collected many traditions attributed to Jesus and to...

There's no white man in the sky and rabbits don't lay eggs. You are a grownup since long time, aren't you?

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or, he taught and showed what those who follow him, Christians, should do or aim at. That's why I'm saying that he didn't preach dogma. Or shouldn't it be the other way around, that the teachings should guide to spiritual perfection? It seems that you have a more positive notion of the word...

Was Jesus Christian? No. He was a Jew, he didn't preach dogma but spiritual perfection. Knowing that we cannot reach it, he preached that the failure of those who try will be forgiven, encouraging us to try and try again. The image of this is the Kingdom of God as opposed to "this world". In my...

To break your monologue: I never listened to Clint whatshisname, but I read Meister Eckhard ( in carefully modernised German) and I see in him an excellent Muslim scholar in the line and adding to the tradition of Ibn Hanbal, Al Ghazzali and Rumi. I know his background is Christian and I...

In my opinion, labelling "Cultural Appropriation" negatively is a fundamental error in the Woke movement. People learn from each other. Why shouldn't a European like and perform Reggae music and wear dreadlocks? It's a feeling of sympathy for an aspect of the culture of Jamaica, and the music...

I have read articles from two different virologists, one who kept contact to the Wuhan group as long as this was allowed by the Chinese government, and he had the impression that they felt unguilty and researched eagerly to fight the disease, whereas the other had been there some time earlier...

For those interested, an excerpt from my commented Gospel edition: Mk 3:28-30 Lk 12:10 Mt 12:31-32 Th 44 Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness for...

It is permissible to "read between the lines" in the traditions. It is not unlikely that the Gospel writers downplayed the role of the Romans in the persecution in order to avoid being identified as an anti-Roman movement. But the Gospel writers agree that Jesus was accused by the Sanhedrin...

Indeed, we are facing a period of extinction that is driven by us humans. It's certainly a good idea to create a library of the genetic code of living animals, even recently extinct animals. But the crucial point is that all animals and plants, fungi, bacteria need a place to live and a role in...