”But you miss one thing, to be muslim to is believe in the oneness of God, what was revealed from God, judgement day, and to submit to God.
”So did Abraham (peace be upon him) believe in the oneness of God? YES“Did he believe in what was revealed to him by God? Yes
“He did believe in Judgment day? YES
“Muslim has a broad meaning. In today's age since we consider that the message was completed by our beloved prophet peace be upon him (the last prophet), there is to be a muslim you have to believe in all that was revealed. And again, in today's age that would be the Koran.
“So yes, by this definition of Islam, Abraham was a Muslim. He submitted to god and never worshiped anyone or anything else.”
Dear Anonymous:
Oneness can refer to a single entity or several entities in union (1).
The Koran teaches that God is a single individual. This is shown by what the Koran states. The Ruler of the Universe; He has no equal (2). The Koran also says that the Supreme Ruler of the heavens and the earth has sired no offspring and is without an accomplice in His Supreme rulership (3).
Many cults, non-orthodox, and false Christians interpret the Holy Bible as meaning that God is one person. Passages which tend to support this concept are: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (4), and “Hear O Israel, the Lord your God is one Lord” (5).
The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the word translated God in Genesis 1:1 is Elohim which is plural showing the plurality of God. Genesis 1:26 quotes God as saying, “Let us make man in our own image and after our likeness.” Genesis 3:22 quotes God as saying, “The man has become as one of us.” Again this shows plurality in God. The one in one Lord is also used in Genesis 11:6, “…the people is one.” That’s the same Hebrew word used for one as used in Deuteronomy 6:4. This shows that the one does not necessarily indicate a single person. For here we had many people referred to as one.
A Biblical passage that shows the unity of God in oneness is Isaiah 44:6. “Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and His redeemer the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last: and besides Me there is no God.” In this verse there are two people speaking the Lord God and His Redeemer the Lord of Hosts. In this verse there are two persons speaking which are referred to as one. Thus the plural and the singular are shown. In one verse we can see the many one and the singular one at the same time. This shows that God is multiple persons with the same essence instead of one individual.
Abraham was a Hebrew and his language shows that he was not a Moslem.
The Koran takes credit for writing the Holy Bible. The Koran’s description of God is different than the description of God given in the Holy Bible. Therefore, the writer of the Koran is not the writer of the Holy Bible.
God gives you the right to believe as you want. However, you cannot go to heaven believing what the Koran says.
You believe that there is one God; you do well: the devils also believe, and tremble (6).
REFERENCES
1. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Page 1008
2. The Koran, Page 108 Paragraph 6:161
3. The Koran Page 252 Paragraph 25:2
4. The Holy Bible, Genesis 1:1
5. The Holy Bible, Deuteronomy 6:4
6. The Holy Bible, James 2:19
The plurality of elohim is "gods," not persons in one God. To point to the plurality of elohim would be, in effect, to say that Yahweh is more than one God. In actuality, in Hebrew, a plural form is used in singular settings to denote the superior, or superlative. Elohim used in a singular setting, referring to Yahweh, denotes the superlative of might. Additionally, if the plural forms of EL means "persons," then it would mean that the singular forms of EL would mean one person. In reality, both the singular and plural forms are used of the one Yahweh. Yahweh is one, not two or three.
ReplyDeleteOf course, since Yahweh created the world -- the world that did not recognize Jesus -- through Jesus (John 1:10), Yahweh could speak to his Son in Genesis 1:26. This does not mean that Yahweh's son is a person of Himself.
In order for the expression, "one people," to be an illustration of the alleged trinitarian dogma, each individual person of the "one people" would have to equal the whole of the "people" being spoken of, as the trinitarian dogma claims that the Father is not part of God, but the whole of God, and that the Son is not part of God, but the whole of God, and that the holy spirit is not part of God, but the whole of God.
Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God. -- Isaiah 44:6
Isaiah describes Yahweh of Hosts as the redeemer of Israel. There is no mention of two persons in Isaiah 44:6.
The trinitarian has to assume the trinitarian dogma, then add assumptions to, and read assumptions into, each and every scripture that is presented to allegedly support the trinitarian dogma. There is absolutely nothing in the Bible about three persons in the only true God. Biblical Christianity does not present such a dogma.
Christian love,
Ronald
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