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Actually, Jesus has hitched his wagon to Islam and is enjoying the ride.![]()
I think you may have missed this so I'll repost the point.
You've seen from my posting here that I am not attacking Islam, nor defending the obviously uneducated ridiculousness these people seem to think the Bible says. So you know that I'm posting now not to attack you but to make a specific point.
While the God of Abraham is what Muslims refer to as Allah, Islam missed the point of the Abraham story.
When Abraham obeyed God/Allah and took his beloved son to the mount to sacrifice him, this was the human have of a Covenant. The God half of the Covenant was God sacrificing His Son for man.
Without the sacrifice of Jesus, as the Son of God ( not God the Father made flesh ) the Covenant between God and Abraham is broken.
I spent many years, just as its obvious you have, studying faith and scriptures. The most important story is that of Abraham, in that it teaches us how we interact directly with God and how He, in turn, interacts with us.
One simply cannot deny Gods half of the Covenant and still find that God fulfills His promise to mankind. Gods half of that Covenant is the sacrifice of His Son...and that Son is Jesus Christ.
It is one thing, like several of the posters here, to completely miss the important nuance of how Jesus' sacrifice relates to the sacrifice of Abrahams son, but to deny it completely, dimnishes not only Abrahams role in our salvation, but it diminishes God as well, as it leaves His Covenant in fulfilled.
Is your God , Allah , someone who doesn't fulfill His promises? His Covenants?
If He is not, then Jesus Christ, His Son, is that fulfillment.
This is where Islam falls short. It leaves the promise of God to Abraham, unfulfilled. God/Allah would never do that.
Jesus is the word and the was was made flesh, and the word is God. That's it in a nutshell. That's what the bible says not what you have misunderstood it to say.
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