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To: wwjdn
Then how can Islam say that Jesus was not divinty, truly God and truly man?

Jesus was no ordinary man, or ordinary prophet.People sometimes miscontrue the usuage of the word prophet to mean some kind of pagan Greek oracle. To Muslims, a PROPHET is the Sign of God on Earth. We believe Jesus was "the Infallible, the Immaculate Prophet". Like Moses, God gave him power beyond all men.

As far as his divinity is concerned, Muslims are taught that Divinity is the sole province of God, the Almighty Creator (to you, God the Father) You know that part of the Old Testament, where it says something to the effect "For the Lord, thy God, is a jealous God" (and so on). Plus, there is the commandment "Thou shalt not have any gods before Me".

208 posted on 12/19/2001 1:43:40 PM PST by Hamza01
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To: Hamza01
You are incorrect in identifying the Christian conception of the Almighty God with the Father. The One God, the Almighty Creator is the All-Holy Trinity, one in essence (ousia), triple in person (hypostasis). The Holy Church teaches that all three hypostases were active in the creation, and that Man is created in the image and likeness of the Holy Trinity ("our image and likeness"--plural posessive), not of one of the Divine Persons. Likewise all visible theophanies in the Old Testament are understood to be manifestations of the Pre-Incarnate Divine Logos ("No man has seen the Father"), while it is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Prophets. The One God transcends all binary distinctions which are applicable only to the created, in particular the distinction between unity and multiplicity, and (in the Incarnation) the distinction between transcenence and immanence.

This is the chief reason as an Orthodox Christian, I see all subsequent claims of divine revelation as prima facia false: they all step back from the truely radical revelation of God's Otherness which is shown forth in the Gospel as it has been receive by the Holy Orthodox Church. Whether it is Islam, Bah'ai or Sikhism, they all return God to the prison of a humanly-conceived transcendence, letting Him relate to us only through texts or rules.

223 posted on 12/19/2001 8:39:15 PM PST by The_Reader_David
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To: Hamza01
The Bible clearly shows that Jesus was the one son of God, therefore he is divinity, he is a God. He rose from death and lives today.
226 posted on 12/20/2001 3:55:07 AM PST by wwjdn
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To: Hamza01
To Muslims, a PROPHET is the Sign of God on Earth. We believe Jesus was "the Infallible, the Immaculate Prophet". Like Moses, God gave him power beyond all men.

Therefin lies the problem...Jesus was not "like" Moses. Moses was blessed by God as a prophet, Jesus is God not a prophet.

228 posted on 12/20/2001 9:18:35 AM PST by wwjdn
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