"I am both Muslim and Christian"

[Betty]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003751274_redding17m.html


Shortly after noon on Fridays, the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding ties on a black headscarf, preparing to pray with her Muslim group on First Hill.
On Sunday mornings, Redding puts on the white collar of an Episcopal priest.
She does both, she says, because she's Christian and Muslim.
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So what do you think about this?

[Aliya]

Oh my: Well, first thought is Timothy 3:13: 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

But also that this is an interesting marriage of 'religions' and another step towards the One World religion :(

[ChristianGal]

One can't compare being 100% African and American to being both Muslim and Christian. The analogy does not fit at all.

There are not "many paths to the divine"...there is only one path to God through Jesus Christ...and accepting God's word about "who" Jesus is, is fundamental to salvation. Muslims don't believe Jesus is God the Son and Christians do. Muslims don't believe in salvation by the blood shed by Jesus on the cross and Christians do.

I don't know what Rev. Holmes is thinking, but, IMHO, for sure she is believing in a lie when she says she is both. It's just not possible. Just like you can't be "a little bit pregnant".

Considering what the Bible tells us about the end times, this is not really surprising.

[CelticMist]

Can't serve two masters!!!!

[The Learner]

The person in this story is either really ignorant of Christian and Muslim theology and decieved. Or she is something much more sinister.

Christianity and Islam is not compatible at all. Just look at salvation alone.

We have guaranteed salvation through the shed blood of Jesus. Faith in the blood of Him = eternal salvation no strings attached.

Muslims have no guarantee of salvation, even Muhammed did not know if he would be judged good enough to enter paradise. Islam is strictly a works based religion. If you do not pray the required amount then you cannot go to heaven. Islam teaches that when you go before Allah if your deeds are 51% bad and 49% good, then you are ****ed.

So how can this "minister" who is supposed to be well versed in both religions not know this?

[Wyatt]

This is a clear example of either deception or delusion. Ditto to what everyone else said. This lady is either deceiving herself or she is deluded but in the meantime she is deceiving others. Man cannot serve two masters and it is clear that Islam and Christianity have two different and separately distinct masters. God, the Alpha and Omega, Creator of the universe through the personage of Jesus Christ, the everylasting and never-changing, is the Master of Christianity while satan himself lies at the heart of Islam. Allah is not God despite what others might contend. We do not worship the same God and anyone who believes differently is flat wrong. Someone needs to straighten this lady out before she leads any more people astray.

[JohnnyHye]

Female minister, that's the first sign right there... Anyway, I wonder if she believes one can be a Christian and a Klansman also? Sounds offensive, but where she may have a history in which Klansmen persecuted her forebears, I have a history where muslims persecuted mine. And they're both religions - KKK is an occultic religion, a branch of freemasonry.

[Lostsoul]

Actually, the KKK started as a joke club, then morons who hated the emansipation (I know, I mangled that word) decided to turn it to a hate group.

[Wyatt]

I went back and read the article and this woman is lost. She does not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and does not believe in the Trinity. She attempts to reconcile the basic tenet of Islam, i.e. there is only one God and Mohammed is His prophet, with her own idea of Jesus, i.e. that He is actually inferior to God. Oh brother, and her superior is okay with this. I suppose that this gives us a picture of what will happen to the "church" after the Rapture. For some reason, the Unitarians come to mind - no matter what you believe, it is okay. There are many ways to get to God (and to heaven) and no matter what you believe, it's okay so long as you believe something. In this instance, she is intermingling two belief systems in an attempt to find God. Unfortunately, she makes a mockery of herself in the process. I just hope that people who read about her understand that she is lost herself and therefore, ill-suited to try to minister to others who are truly seeking the face of God.

[CHRISTinCheryl]

Not possible...NO WAY..:tsk