Quote: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.


Redding, who until recently was director of faith formation at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, has been a priest for more than 20 years. Now she's ready to tell people that, for the last 15 months, she's also been a Muslim — drawn to the faith after an introduction to Islamic prayers left her profoundly moved.


Her announcement has provoked surprise and bewilderment in many, raising an obvious question: How can someone be both a Christian and a Muslim?


But it has drawn other reactions too. Friends generally say they support her, while religious scholars are mixed: Some say that, depending on how one interprets the tenets of the two faiths, it is, indeed, possible to be both. Others consider the two faiths mutually exclusive.


"There are tenets of the faiths that are very, very different," said Kurt Fredrickson, director of the doctor of ministry program at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. "The most basic would be: What do you do with Jesus?"


Christianity has historically regarded Jesus as the son of God and God incarnate, both fully human and fully divine. Muslims, though they regard Jesus as a great prophet, do not see him as divine and do not consider him the son of God.


"I don't think it's possible" to be both, Fredrickson said, just like "you can't be a Republican and a Democrat."


Redding, who will begin teaching the New Testament as a visiting assistant professor at Seattle University this fall, has a different analogy: "I am both Muslim and Christian, just like I'm both an American of African descent and a woman. I'm 100 percent both."

Quote:She believes the Trinity is an idea about God and cannot be taken literally.
She does not believe Jesus and God are the same, but rather that God is more than Jesus.


She believes Jesus is the son of God insofar as all humans are the children of God, and that Jesus is divine, just as all humans are divine — because God dwells in all humans.


What makes Jesus unique, she believes, is that out of all humans, he most embodied being filled with God and identifying completely with God's will.


She does believe that Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected, and acknowledges those beliefs conflict with the teachings of the Quran. "That's something I'll find a challenge the rest of my life," she said.

Quote:The article mentions she has said her Shahada so I dont think what she is doing is wrong.

Quote:She considers Jesus her savior. At times of despair, because she knows Jesus suffered and overcame suffering, "he has connected me with God," she said.

Quote:Bismillah


as salam alykom


I agree with both Jennifer and Wael, but what is alarming Karbala is that u dont see her beliefs to be in contradiciton with Islam. In addition to what Wael introduced to u, how about this point:


<b> because God dwells in all humans.
</b>


This is when the disaster of incarnation actually begins. This is, to the best of my knowledge brothers and sisters pls correct me if I m wrong, foundation of Hindu beliefs in particular, as far as I recall, a guru claims this, correct Wael.


Allah Does not dwell in any human Karbala.


<b> تعالى الله عما يصفون </b>

Quote:Bismillah: Assalamo Alikum.


My ex boss (<i>who is also Indian</i>) believes that God dwells in every human being.


Alhamdulelah, Islam has come to free us from such ignorance, Alhamdulelah who made us Muslims.


Say: "O people of the Book!



come To common terms as between us and you:


<b>that we worship none but Allah</b>;


<b>that we associate no partners with Him</b>;


<b>that we erect not, from among ourselves, lords and patrons other than Allah</b>."


if then they turn back,


say ye: "<b>Bear witness that we (at least) Are Muslims (bowing to Allah's Will)</b>." [Qur’an 3:64]


Salam


Wael.

Quote:Karbala, what is also important is that since, as Wael indicated, she believes in Jesus as a savior. She prays according to Islam then goes and leads Christian prayer, who does she pray to??? isnt this in total contradiction to Islam Karbala? Hope u realise the point, this is very important brother.