" So there is common ground for starters. Now, to avoid more generations and centuries of killing and hatred, Christians and Muslims must indeed find common ground. And for the Christian hoping to convert the Muslim, common ground is just the launching pad.
Another way of bringing the discussion down to familiar territory for the Muslim is to point out that both Christians and Muslims worship the same God. Muslims may believe that Christians worship "three Gods, and are therefore polytheists," Pratt explains, and Christians may think that "Allah" is different than "God." Getting past this point and explaining that the prophet Jesus Christ was the Son of God (and that it has been made clear in the prophecies through the Holy Bible) and that the "Holy Ghost" or "Holy Spirit" is not a God but rather a divine spirit that is ever-present and never-ending will likely bring about good dialogue for starters.
In the International Students' material ("How Can We know the Bible is the Word of God?") the emphasis is on the fact that the Bible is "historically accurate." And while not putting down the historical accuracy of the Qur'an, a Christian must make a strong effort to lay out the truth about the Bible. Archaeologist Nelson Glueck argues "categorically" in this material that "no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference." Excavations in the Holy Land have verified the writings in the Bible again and again as historically accurate, according to William Ramsay (quoted in the Religion Profile). The Bible was written by men who were teachers and taught "the highest standard of ethics, including the obligation to always tell the truth," and even though many of the writers of the Bible "paid a high price for their truthfulness" - martyrdom. It can be explained to the Muslim that few people are willing to die for what they know "...to be false," the Religion Profile asserts, and therefore the authors...
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