This Thread has gone SOUTH. Give ‘em a break, Isa is the name in the Koran, for a Prophet of God, born to a Mary, who was a Virgen. I don’t know what all the fuss is bout.
You stopped short. There is more to Isa than you just wrote and therein may lie your inability to understand the fuss.
So, just when I thought I could say "amen," it happened. Warren said "I humbly ask this in the name of the one who changed my life, Yeshua, Isa, Jesus [Spanish pronunciation], Jesus, who taught us to pray, "Our father who art in Heaven..." Opppsss. Wait a minute. I should have known that it was too good to be true. Yeshua and Jesus - great! "Isa" - not so much.
... Warren's use of the name of Isa, the false Jesus of Islam, was a glaring slap in the face to all that he had already prayed. "Isa" in no way represents the Jesus of the Bible but is instead the false Jesus of the Qur'an (Koran) and the Muslim Hadith.
"Isa" (pronounced "eee-sa") is the Islamic Jesus who was but a prophet and who certainly did not experience a sacrificial death on a cross let alone resurrect from the dead. In fact, in Islam the prophet Isa is actually the destroyer of Christianity - not it's Savior. Obviously, this is simply NOT the same Jesus as is Yeshua.
Why are you posting to me? I simply commented that “I am what I am” is a Popeye quote.
“The Coming Of Isa The Messiah (Muslim Jesus)”:
http://al-mahdi.atspace.com/isa.html
“..I don't know what the fuss is all about.”
The fuss is that the Lord warned against following after false christs and a pastor has no business elevating the name of the false jesus of Islam before the world.
Matthew 24:23-25 (NKJV):
“Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.”
The god of the Koran is not the God of the Bible. The Koran's god is more closely related to one of the graven images for which the people of Israel were punished for worshipping.