Posted on 08/09/2024 8:37:23 PM PDT by Jonty30
I pulled this from a pro-Islam site, but I have seen this other places. I am just wondering what theological reason would a Jewish scholar state that Islam is closer to Judaiam than Christianity, when it's not Christians who are trying to destroy Judaism?
Because the Trinity is anathema to faithful Jews.
Also human sacrifice.
Why?
The Old Testament is full of references to the plurality of the Godhead.
My understanding is that they interpret any plurality of God to mean God and His angels and not a plurality of God.
“The Old Testament is full of references to the plurality of the Godhead.”
Like this one?
“Hear, O Israel: the LORD is our God, the LORD is One.”
Deuteronomy 6:4
That has a lot of plurality to it if you look at it at just the right angle for long enough. 1, 3, 5, 10, 100, 30,000. Why stop with just a few when you can have as many as ancient Egypt and Rome?
Because Muslims are just another type of jew.
Muslims like to think so anyway. Muhammad corrupt the Scriptures to create his own.
That’s because Mad Mo was a con man and the biggest one history has ever seen at that.
At the alters of selfishness and convenience.
Exactly.
Islam is a war plan — literally
Similarities and differences:
If they could get over their political differences, Muslims and Orthodox Jews and Orthodox Christians have many similarities. But there are differences, too.
On the concept of God: Christians have a personal God because of Jesus. Roughly, God the Father of Christianity is like God of Judaism and God of Islam. I say “like.”
Jesus changes everything for us.
Still, the Old Testament God, while a pure spirit, is with his people (”Emmanuel” meaning God is with us) and, furthermore, is sending his messengers (sometimes described as “the” angel of God), and also is raising prophets from his people. But, these relationships between God and his people seems to have come to an end as far as Jews are concerned.
For Christians and Jews, man is created in “the image of God.”
And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him, male and female created He them.
That we are created in the image of God gives us dignity. We have the spark of the divine in us. We are sons and daughters of the living God.
I don’t think Islam has such a clear statement asserting that we are created in the image of God. I believe they have an hadith, or saying of the prophet, to this effect, but its meaning is debated.
let us create man in OUR image.
in the image of God created he THEM.
of course that would not count because it is from Genesis... the precursor for the other four books of Moses.
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist!
Am Yisrael Chai!
language
The last speaker talks about Biblical Hebrew in the same way that Muslims talk about Koranic Arabic.
Two of the books of the Hebrew Scriptures were written in Biblical Aramaic, not Biblical Hebrew. So, when a Torah student is reading a Bible in Hebrew, part of what he is reading is a translation.
Furthermore, languages change over time. So, the Hebrew of the time that Job was written wasn’t the same Hebrew as when later books of the Hebrew Scripture were written, and isn’t the same Hebrew of today’s speakers of Hebrew.
Jews who can read Hebrew, like everybody else, are dependent on scholars to know the meaning of what they are reading.
For Christians, none of this is a problem. We don’t believe the original texts were delivered to us verbatim from God. We believe the original texts were written by men inspired by God.
My advice is, when Muslims YouTube apologists tell you what anyone thinks, look up the source if you can find it, and evaluate it separately. Also check out what else the source or person has to say.
Some apologists are good, some are bad, a few show they have issues.
It’s definitely not multiple gods talking to one another. If you listen to the rabbis they’ll set you straight about how to translate and interpret the verse correctly, but Christians aren’t having any of that.
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