Holy Koran's Pattern in the Cultural Communication of Islam and Christianity

The Holy Koran, the last scared scripture sent by Allah, recommends, based on the verses frequency, seven methods to communicate with the Christians. The important point about these seven models that may be considered interesting is their sequence as they may be applied one after another in the following order:1-Affirmation of some of the Christianity foundations (the Holy Bible, Jesus Christ, Saint Mary and the Apostles)
2-Invitation to unity
3-Annunciation of blessing for the true Christians
4-Warning and threats to the Christians
5-Invitation to consider the truth by the Christians
6-Explanation of the infidel Christians and their damnation
7-Order to mubahala (debate and mutual cursing) and wage war against the Christians.
These are the seven methods, based on Holy Koran, which are considered to be used in communicating with the Christians:1- The background for an efficient dialog is firstly based by affirmation of some of the Christianity foundations such as the Holy Bible, Jesus Christ, Saint Mary and the Apostles. The existence of a constructive and unifying dialog can have a vital role to directly eliminate the world problems; but this needs some suitable backgrounds. One of these backgrounds is the dialog based on the common matters. Relying on lots of common positive issues such as beliefs, ideas, aspirations, pains and common feelings, the humankind can establish such a dialog.
2- In the second phase, the Holy Koran, accepting some beliefs of the Christians, invites them to unite with Muslims based on the monotheism and rejection of idolatry and idolatrous in order to reach a common understanding in communicating with each other.
3- After a Christian receives confirmations about his/her religious ideals by Islam and is ready to unite with Muslims based on the Monotheism, there is an announcement of divine mercy and forgiveness, explained by Holy Koran.
4-In this phase, if the Christians refuse to accept the truthfulness of Islam because of prejudice, jealousy or ignorance, the Holy Koran warns them to follow the realities of their religion and to be united with Islam based on the monotheism.
5-If the warning is not followed and accepted, the Holy Koran invites the Christian, based on the logic to consider their belief system and wants them to rethink with common sense about what they ignore or believe superstitiously and to follow the divine path.
6- In this stage of communication, if the Christians continue to insist on their beliefs and ignorance, the Holy Koran warns them explicitly about the damnation, suffering and loss.
7- At the end, if the Christians do not abandon their beliefs and try to influence the Muslims by creating division and confusion, the Holy Koran orders to wage war against them. It then curses them and warns them about suffering in this very world.
Looking to these seven steps of communicating, it can be concluded based on the Holy Koran teachings that the pattern of the inter-cultural communication between Muslims and Christians is the monotheism and staying away from polytheism. The more this pattern is reinforced and highlighted, the more this closeness and communication will be constructive and efficient. The Holy Koran presents seven practices and solutions.
If the Holy Koran accepts and respects some of the foundations of Christianity (such as the Holy Bible, Jesus Christ, the Apostles and the chastity of Saint Mary) in these practices which are based on the monotheism and refusal of polytheism, it is because they are all centered around the monotheistic principles. Whenever there is a deviation from these principles, the Holy Koran warns and invites the people to consider their beliefs. It even orders explicitly to wage war to make the Christians return to the true path of divinity.
Based on these methods to communicate with the Christians which are affirmation of some of the Christianity foundations (the Holy Bible, Jesus Christ, Saint Mary and the Apostles), invitation to unity, annunciation of blessing for the true Christians, warning and threats to the Christians, invitation to consider the truth by the Christians, explanation of the infidel Christians and their damnation and order to mubahala (debate and mutual cursing) and wage war against the Christians, we can conclude that the basic principle governing all these methods is the monotheism and worshiping Allah. We understand that the Holy Koran loves and respects the people of the Book and the true Christians. It considers greatly Jesus Christ and the chastity of his virgin Mother and glorifies their names because they all worshiped Allah. The pattern for the inter-cultural communications is considered in the Holy Koran (Ale-Imran): Say: "O People of the Book! come to common terms as between us and you: That we worship none but Allah; that we associate no partners with him; that we erect not, from among ourselves, Lords and patrons other than Allah.[1]
This verse is addressed to the all of the People of the Book and invites them: O People of the Book! Come to common terms as .... It invites that the people unite and agree on one word and act based on this one word. We can conclude that this verse means: Let's all grab this one word and try to expand it altogether. The invitation explained in this verse is to refuse to worship other than Allah and is not a mere belief.
In brief, the messengers and prophets invite all the humankind to follow the way that their nature dictates them i.e. to follow the word of Allah and to judge based on the monotheism and in accordance with the Islamic criteria and for the Allah's sake. The criteria such as: 1- submitting to Allah, 2-expanding the justice and the equality of rights of life 3- the freedom in the will of competent and good deeds. This is not realized unless we can eliminate the roots of dispute such as subordination to non-right and domination of the powerful i.e. the weak accepting the cruelty of the more powerful. We all must accept that there is no Allah except Allah and no other rule except Allah's rule.
The Holy prophet of Islam (PBUH) invites the People of the Book to believe his revelation and to unite around the word of Allah. This is not an invitation to the just theoretical monotheism but it is an applied monotheism that has social effects such as expansion of justice and rejection of idolatrous.
In brief, if we consider the verses related to the Christians, we can conclude the ways the Koran offers in order to communicate with them. What has a vital importance in this communication is the monotheism and refusal of polytheism. The ways to attain this goal are the seven ones which we pointed out in the article