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‘Christian and Islamic Scripture is much more similar than you may realize. Test your knowledge of Bible and Qur’an verses, and see how well you really know your Scripture!’
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Got Ten out of Ten. Clearly those that do not know the difference neither know the Quran nor the Bible.
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Clearly the speech of God in the Quran is unlike much of the content of the Bible, for instance the letters of Paul, Peter, John, James etc are the words and thoughts of men and do not claim to be the speech of God. But there are profound similarities with the Book of Isaiah and some of the other prophets, where the Creator addresses man in powerful speech. The strict monotheism and ethical demands are essentiality the same.
Another similarity is the absence of any trinitarian theology in the Prophets and the Quran. This is a good reason to believe both come from the same Source.
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Paul, you are blessed to have that intuition of light to see that the source of both is the One, the same God.
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Alhamdulillah. Did you take the test Omer?
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Paul read teh comments, there are a few Muslims who thought the bible was Quran lol. So much for a surah like it challange. So sad
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Paul Wrote…
“Another similarity is the absence of any trinitarian theology in the Prophets and the Quran. This is a good reason to believe both come from the same Source.”
You clearly have no idea what Jews believed do you.
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Did you go to high school Bobby?
Spelling errors:
‘teh’ should be the
‘bible’ should be Bible
tut tut
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so Bob
teach me: where does Isaiah mention the trinity?
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Paul wrote…
teach me: where does Isaiah mention the trinity?
My response: Thats a false dilemma. For one, elements and understanding of God’s unique Echadness are found in the entire old testament, the old testament is not solely the book of Isaiah. But Isaiah does clearly teach that the Messiah will be eternal, be called the EL Gabor “mighty God”, called “Wonderful” the word in Hebrew is only used for God and his works.
Thats why you have in the Midrash the following…
Who art thou, O great mountain? (Zech. 4:7.) This refers to the King Messiah. And why does he
call him “the great mountain?” because he is greater than the patriarchs, as it is said, “My
servant shall be high, and lifted up, and lofty exceedingly”—he will be higher than Abraham,
who says, “I raise high my hands unto the Lord” (Gen. 14:22); lifted up above Moses, to whom it
is said, “Lift it up into thy bosom” (Num. 11:12); loftier than the ministering angels, of whom it is
written, “Their wheels were lofty and terrible” (Ez. 1:18). And out of whom does he come forth?
Out of David (Yalqut Shimʿoni 2:571).
Biblical commenter Rabbi Don Yitshaq Abravanel commented on this Midrash wrote in the 1400’s
It is extremely difficult to understand how any child of man can be exalted above Moses, of
whom the Law bears witness, saying, “No prophet ever arose in Israel like him” (Deut. 34:10);
still more so, then, how any one “born of woman” can assume a position higher than the angels,
whose substance admits of nothing above it except the substance of the First Cause: from the
latter expression, in fact, Christian teachers have attempted to establish their doctrine of the
Divinity of the Messiah.
Rabbi Moshe Ibn Crispin commenting on this Midrash in the fourteenth century
Exceedingly above the ministering angels, because that same comprehensive intelligence will
approach [God] more nearly than theirs. For it is an exceedingly high privilege, that one whose
nature is compound and material should attain to a grade of intelligence more nearly Divine than
that which belongs to the incorporeal; and so it is said of him that “his strength is greater than
that of the ministering angels,” because these have no impediment in the exercise of their
intellect, whereas that which is compound is continually impeded in consequence of material
element in its nature. Accordingly the grade of his intelligence being such as this, he is said to
be “lofty exceedingly,” and his strength to be “greater than the angels.”
… And when this “servant of the Lord” is born, from the day when he comes to years of
discretion, he will continue to be marked by the possession of intelligence enabling him to
acquire from God what it is impossible for any to acquire until he reaches that height whither
none of the sons of men, except him, have ever ascended.
Paul claimed… “But there are profound similarities with the Book of Isaiah and some of the other prophets, where the Creator addresses man in powerful speech…This is a good reason to believe both come from the same Source.”
My response:
Nothing could be further from the truth, since Isaiah and the Jewish sages before Rashi and the Rambam, clearly teach that the Messiah would not only have divine attributes, but also be a suffering servant to the point of death.
Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin Fol 98b
The Messiah ” what is his name? . . .The Rabbis say,The leprous one [;those] of the house of
Rabbi [say,The sick one], as it is said,’ Surely he hath borne our sicknesses,’ etc.
P’SIQTHA Messiah Prexistance According to Hulsius
The Holy One brought forth the soul of the Messiah, and said to him. Art thou willing to be
created and to redeem my sons after 6000 years? He replied, I am. God replied, If so, thou
must take upon thy self chastisements in order to wipe away their iniquity, as it is written, ‘Surely
our sicknesses he hath carried.’ The Messiah answered, I will take them upon me gladly.
There is so much more but I don’t want to overload you. Clearly this is not quranic teaching at all regarding the Messiah.
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“Isaiah does clearly teach that the Messiah will be eternal, be called the EL Gabor “mighty God”, called “Wonderful” the word in Hebrew is only used for God and his works.”
I am not familiar with such a passage that ‘clearly’ refers to a ‘messiah’. What is the reference?
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Paul Wrote am not familiar with such a passage that ‘clearly’ refers to a ‘messiah’. What is the reference?
My response: Another false dilemma, clearly demonstrating again that you have no idea what Jews before Rashi taught on ISA and the Messianic passages.
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Bobby boy – stop playing silly billy games.
You wrote these words:
“But Isaiah does clearly teach that the Messiah will be eternal, be called the EL Gabor “mighty God”, called “Wonderful” the word in Hebrew is only used for God and his works.”
I asked you to give me a reference in Isaiah that you claim mentions a “messiah” being called God. Isaiah “clearly” says this in the text – so you claim.
You waffle ridiculously about a so-called “false dilemma” and what “Jews before Rashi taught”.
Yawn…
Man up dude and answer the question
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Paul quit projecting
Yes Clearly teaches so clearly teaches the Messiah its what Jews believed until Rashi and Rambam, not only that but even after Rashi the majority of Jewish sages disagreed with Rashi and his un orthodox non historical interpretation, including his own Grandson.
And I’m sorry if you do not have any deductive reasoning skills to be able to see that the Messianic passages in ISA are clearing talking about the Messiah but thats a you problem and not a me problem.
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MEGA FAIL dude.
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Yah you did. So tell me Paul where does ISA teach about a Islamic Messiah? Sine you made the claim that Isa and Quran came from the same source?
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lol can’t answer a simple question so he changes the subject. Sorry dude not playing your game.
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Paul,
I did take the test. I got 10 out of 10.
I have been regularly reading the Qur’an in Arabic and english for over 25 years but also I have been reading the English translations regularly for about the same time and also referring to different English translations.
Alhamdulillah, I am therefore very familiar with the exact text of the Qur’an and that is how I did well….not because those particular Quranic and Biblical verses are in principle different from each other in the ethos or the principles.
I assume that it would be virtually impossible for most people to differentiate the Quranic verses from the Biblical verses and as a corollary vice-versa if they do not regularly read the Qur’an or Bible.
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well done!
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