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THE ONENESS OF GOD
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Tawheed - The Oneness of God
Say: He God is One (Quran 112:1)
Say: Surely! my worship and, my sacrifice and my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of the Worlds. He hath no partner. This am I commanded, and I am first of those who surrender (unto Him). (Quran 6:162-163.)
I am the Lord ('Aniy Yahweh.), and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:(Isaiah 45:5)
The Shema:
Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. (Deut 6:4-5)
The First Commandment:
"I am the Lord thy God.... Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
"And God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Ex. 20:1-3.
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His Word
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To Christians: If Jesus is Son of God and Mary is Mother of God, then not only the Oneness of God is questionable but so too His Divinity, Mary and Jesus being mortals, subjected to birth and death. |
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To Muslims: Jesus was created; created of matter. He was conceived; conceived by a woman. Christianity bow to the prerequisite of fatherhood acknowledging that he was man born of a woman. Muhammad avowed, "don't you know that no child is born but has the likeness to its father in form and appearance"? By whose authority is the belief in Virgin Birth authenticated?
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His Work
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(Creation: Nature or Novel)
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By "kun" or by "kun, fa ya koon"? Muhammad: "don't you know that Jesus was conceived by a woman just as how every other woman conceives? Then she gave birth to him like every other woman give birth to a child?"
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To Christians:
By Qur'anic dictum it is blasphemy to assert that God has begotten or that He can beget a Son. Certainly not by His Attribute of Rah'man. And that's the Attribute by which man is created. In the case of Jesus, he was a man. By 55: 3 the creation of man is by the Divine Attribute of Rah'man.
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To Muslims:
Kh'alaq is applied in the creation of man (96:2; 55: 3) and in the creation of Jesus (3:59). If the birth of Jesus was not by the principle of "alaq" then it will have to be conceded that a power other than Rah'man was responsible for the creation of Jesus. The Bible and Qur'an quoted him as a man. Beware, to assert that Allah's breath impregnated Mary, is shirk (attributing others to God) to assert that Allah's Breath impregnated Mary.
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The verses of Surah Mulk (67:3) is emphatic that in the creation of Rah'man no incongruity can be attested to. Try to figure it out and you will fail. Force it and you will be ruined. Heavenly nor earthly is it possible. How then can Muslims attest that Jesus was an exception to "Ar-Rah'man, kh'alaq al insan"?
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Surah Mariam declares that it is "kufr" to ascribe a Son to Rah'man (19:88). Not alone His Power much more His Person! The Attribute of Rah'man is used in Surah Mariam repeatedly (16 times) that it is wondered why? If a Power other than Rah'man was invoked in the creation of Jesus, then, he was not a man. Further, Muslims should identify that Power. God's Power of Rah'man obeys only one principle in man's creation. The process of kh'alaq by "alaq".
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The Jews
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The doctrine of virgin and or fatherless birth are, alike, a fiction, alien to a monotheistic faith and akin to paganism. Belief in either concept is to divinize Jesus and humanize God. Belief in Sonship of God is idolatry. Belief in fatherless birth is idolatry, fantasy and superstition. They washed their hands of both dogmas.
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The Muslims
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Whether Jesus was born with or without a father is of no consequence for that is not a fundamental article of faith in Islam. If Jesus " begatteth not nor was he begotten and there is none like unto him", then , according to Surah Iklas (112), if he is not Allah, who is? Or in what wise the Person of God, the Unseen can be better presented, defined or argued as is done by Ikhlas? Produce a verse if you can! (2:23, 10:28).
[STOP: Read the above again and ponder. Muslims swear that the embodiment of their faith is expressed in Surah Iklas (112), which states "Say He Allah is One....He Begets not nor is He Begotten. And none is like unto Him". If then Jesus Begets not, nor is he Begotten, as most Muslims believe, IS JESUS NOT LIKE UNTO GOD? Which other being has this quality if not God Himself as he testifies in Chapter 112? ]
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A Muslims Minority Group (Ahmadiyya)
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They advocate the belief that Jesus' father was Joseph, the carpenter. However, they admit that their theory has no basic support from the Bible nor the Qur'an. Heresy, but historically factual. They contend however that by believing that Jesus had a biological father and full stop, they are sheltered and have full coverage. Whether that father is Joseph, Thomas or John, or X, Y, or Z, by name, it is none of their business, concern nor interest to investigate further and ascertain.
Christians says "We do believe that Jesus has a father, namely, God Almighty". Why then the uproar, to this, from them! This group is the fiercest objectors, opposers and rejecters of the doctrine that Jesus is God's Son. Yet they are the ones who say that it is not necessary for the Qur'an to state the name of the father of Jesus.
"Why beholdeth thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" (Mat. 7:3)
If the father of other Prophets are not named by the Qur'an that is a lame counterargument. It is over the head of Jesus that the question mark hangs. A crucial ..?.. That is, Jesus is acclaimed Son of God in the sense that as such he is Divine; and as the Second part of the Trinity worship is due to him. The Qur'an is in duty bound to name, identify and pinpoint Jesus' biological father.
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