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Is this a Peter Gabriel vs Phil Collins debate?
The Old Testament is replete with verses that suggest a triune God.
My wife gets mad at me when I say that as Christians, we don’t worship the same God that modern Jewish people worship. I gave up trying to explain it to her - and it doesn’t really matter I guess.
From Strong’s concordance
H430
אלהים
אֱלוֹהִים ‘ĕlôhı̂ym
el-o-heem‘
Plural of 433 gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: - angels, X exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
I’ve seen this topic cause much discussion and debate, especially with Muslims I know. It can be confusing. I simply believe what God tells us about himself. Even at the limited human mind level I can accept that.
How dare you reject the living magisterium of Rome:
"the Moslems, who, professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore [worship] the one and merciful God, who on the last day will judge mankind." (Lumen Gentium 16)
"Upon the Moslems, too, the Church looks with esteem. They adore one God, living and enduring, merciful and all-powerful, Maker of heaven and earth and Speaker to men...They strive to submit wholeheartedly even to His inscrutable decrees, just as did Abraham, with whom the Islamic faith is pleased to associate itself." (Nostra Aetate's §3Thus leaving the RC laity to interpret their interpreter, seeking to rationalize this as not being a contradiction of past TC teaching, and less importantly, of Scripture. Of course, most Catholics can be said to worship a false God themselves.
But it remains that the claim that Islam worships the God of the Bible is blasphemous. For with Allah, we are not dealing with an utterly ambiguous "unknown god" as in Acts 17, for which there was no express definitive revelation and could said to be the true God they were looking for. But Allah is a defined deity, and as such is a distinct dod, and in the name of this false deity are the contradictory and skewed Biblical stories of the Qur'an, besides adding its own, and which denies the very essence of the gospel, that of the Divine Son of God procuring salvation with His own sinless shed blood!
My Christian FRiends, you paste about and you know such insights into Genesis. But can you find the error (you’ll need a concordance) in every single one of these translations of something as simple as Num 13:22?
https://biblehub.com/numbers/13-22.htm
And it should give one pause....If my translation is patently incorrect/imprecise here.... where else have I been (unintentionally) misled?
Why, sure we do, even if they do not agree.
Ridiculous. Genesis is not a chrstian book. It wasn't written by chrstians. No one mentioned in it was ever a chrstian. The only way you can believe this is to assume from the outset that a religion that didn't even exist until 2000 years ago has the authority to claim Genesis for its own.
G-d didn't give Israel a 66 book Thomas Nelson chrstian Bible. He gave them the Five Books of Moses. But how do you argue with people who insist that one is obligated to believe without actually being sure?
It reads that way to me:
Genesis 1:26 NKJV
Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."