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Originally Posted by Aquila
I've noticed that rabbis can get together and debate Torah and traditions all day long. They shout, laugh, "argue", and then... they hug each other's necks as brothers. For the most part, Jews can radically disagree with various interpretations and understandings... yet we rarely see synagogues claiming absolute truth and that other synagogues aren't really Jewish. Those claiming to have absolute pure truth are viewed as being on the margins.
In Islam, it's much the same. Some accept various hadiths as authorative while others don't. However, to main stream Islam, a Muslim is a Muslim. Those claiming to have absolute truth are viewed as being on the radical fringe, and are seen as a danger to even fellow Muslims.
But in both religions they are for the most part united in their diversity.
In Christianity, we don't see such unity (accept in ecumenical circles). It is not uncommon for a church to denounce every other church in town as being in grave error...
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Matthew 10:34 - 36
34) “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35) For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
36) And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.
I don't know how to rationalize it, but maybe all of the division found within Christianity is the WILL of God.
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