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Christian critics of Islam will point to the name of God not being Allah in the Torah, but instead, YHWH, and say that Allah is not the God of the Bible, and the Torah states that the punishment for going after other gods is stoning to death.
ReplyDeleteBut what they can't show is how the logic is any different when applying it to say that Jesus is YHWH and the god of the Torah when his name is different and he's said by Christian dogma to be three persons in one when the Torah teaches no such thing.
Hello fauxcapitalist -- I have enjoyed listening to your recent radio interviews.
ReplyDeleteYou raise some good questions and I hope the following will help answer them:
The name ‘Jesus’ is the English translation of the Messiah’s Hebrew name ‘Yeshua’, the name by which he would have been originally addressed.
Yeshua / Jesus literally translates as ‘Yahweh saves’. As Matthew’s account of the Good News has it: ”She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
In Luke’s account of the Good News, we have this:
Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner !”
But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”
Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
So Jesus’ words here have a double meaning: He (Yeshua) is visiting the sinner’s house and salvation (yeshu'a) is coming to the man’s house.
The Torah sates: “hear oh Israel, the Lord God, the Lord is one”. The Hebrew word specifically used for ‘one’ is plural – ‘echad’. The way a man and woman united are ‘one,’ or a household of parents and children are ‘one’ family unit.
The Hebrew word for a ‘singular’ one is different; it's ‘yachid’, and if God was singular that term would have been used, but it was not.
The Messiah said “I and the Father are one” – they are a unity of One.
Genesis records God saying: “Let us make man in our image...”
Regarding 'Allah':
In pre-Islamic Arabia, Allah was the name designated to one of the pantheon of pagan deities, the Moon god. Allah has no connection with the God of Israel who identified himself as YHWH (“I am who I am”). Likewise, Jesus oftentimes referred to himself as "I Am".
I hope this has been helpful fauxcapitalist. While I understand Charles G and others have many criticisms regarding the bible and what they sincerely perceive to be contradictions, I believe with persistence and research many of these supposed inconsistencies can be reconciled.
"I believe with persistence and research many of these supposed inconsistencies can be reconciled."
ReplyDeleteThe Persian Drum,
Finally someone who has answers. I would kindly suggest you click that click that Skype button and defend your god. At least pick the verses you know you can defend and see if they can stand up to scrutiny.
I'm looking forward to hearing your many calls on Charlie's show.
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