God talk

29 th July 2020 Verse 6b continued Now we need to look at this verse from a Christian faith point of view.   We move away from Islam here and there is no way of bridging the gap as Tawhid prohibits this.   For the Christian Believer it is of great importance.   As we said earlier Paul pointed out that all the gods were not gods.   For the Christian there is only one God revealed in the three Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. “…we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.”   If there are any mistakes in what I say they will be all mine but I have to say these words are seriously important.   So before commenting more I want to go through each section so that we are crystal clear on what they mean.   I have broken the verse into 5 sections (A B C D E )so that you can follow my argument. My Translation Section A = Yet for us there is One God the Father out of Whom are all things. ἀλλ’ ἡμῖν εἷς θεὸς ὁ πατήρ, ἐξ οὗ

28 th July 2020 So, from looking at the evidence, the Koran is correct in the formulation that there was a heretical religious group that claimed to be Christians and they did make Mary out to be a god.   The problem here is that this was localized and did not actually speak about the universal Trinitarian point of view.   Even so looking at verse 116 in the Koran God is asking a question.   It is the ulema that have given this interpretation of the Trinity.   I did some research and these wiki’s page is helpful; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyridianism https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/collyridianism   This is the end of our excursion into The Trinity.   We have looked at one germ root for the Trinity in St Paul.   We also looked at the Koran (In English) We learned that; 1.      There were people in the Middle East that worshiped Mary as a goddess 2.      The Islamic response was to question this worship. 3.      The Koran doesn’t claim 100%

27 th July 2020 The prophet of Islam who in his commercial enterprises travelled from the Arab Peninsula to Damascus and Aleppo became acquainted with the Miriamists.  He listened to the tenets of their religion and formed an idea.  The most regrettable formulation in his mind was to equate the Miriamists with the Christians.  Being illiterate according to Islamic legend he considered Jesus Christ an element in their teaching.  This opinion passed into the Quran.  The Muslim prophet, not having understood the true Persons of the Holy Trinity strayed to erroneous beliefs and practices.  Following the spread of Islam, the Miriamists this time embraced the Prophet’s religion, and their cult withered.  But the essence of this deviate teaching could not be wiped out.  It even influenced Islam considerably in its reverence of ‘Mother Mary’.  If the Muslim chooses to study the evidences of objective history, he can delve into the depth of the encumbrances and misgivings which trouble h