tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post4644734565503182872..comments2024-03-16T17:18:50.797+08:00Comments on The Agora: Book Review of Miroslav Volf's Allah: A Christian ResponseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post-47488565684917996732012-03-25T00:04:20.746+08:002012-03-25T00:04:20.746+08:00Loving Muslims in a way they will very likely perc...Loving Muslims in a way they will very likely perceive to be loving.kamagrahttp://www.kamagracentre.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post-24543121003140606732011-09-05T10:59:28.735+08:002011-09-05T10:59:28.735+08:00Here is another worthy review of Volf's Allah:...Here is another worthy review of Volf's Allah: http://markdurie.blogspot.com/phil dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13207015608600609622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post-18542963670606253872011-09-05T10:56:19.639+08:002011-09-05T10:56:19.639+08:00For a perspective from a convert from Islam to Chr...For a perspective from a convert from Islam to Christianity take a few moments to view this clip:<br />http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2011/06/28/do-muslims-and-christians-worship-the-same-god/phil dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13207015608600609622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post-74049779846314255412011-07-31T13:36:59.241+08:002011-07-31T13:36:59.241+08:00The (above) haveing been said, I would like to add...The (above) haveing been said, I would like to add that the "messiah" who pretends to be the Most High, the "messiah" who claims that he himself is the Most High, per the Bible, is the anti-Christ (the evil Dajjal in Islamic terms). So Christianity today is actually false worship professed to a falsely-constructed version of Christ, and not worship "In Spirit and in Truth" of the True Christ as Jesus represented himself in the Gospel. The True Christ, by definition of Christ meaning "anointed," has been anointed (passive) by his (active) God-- he did not anoint himself, nor is he his own God. This is a very important distinction that is scriptural truth if you but open your eyes and let the Holy Spirit peel the blinders that men have put over them: Jeus Christ, resurrected Christ of God, HAS A GOD ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE. To say Jesus Christ is the Most High is actually false and hence anti-Christ theology, which is part of the reason why Jews reject the "Christian" Christ-- they know that THE MESSIAH, THE CHRIST must be the ANOINTED OF GOD and not the Most High God himself, though the linkage between Christ and God is pure so that the words of God flow from the mouth of Christ, as Jesus said, "The words I speak are not my own." Thus, it could be said that there is a Holy Trinity, in terms of intimacy of connection and in terms of UNITY of mission and purpose; however, to say that the three parts are equal to each other is false according to the Bible itself, which clearly shows the Son as subservient to the Father. The same church that once opposed the Truths of the Universe revealed through Galileo must now cease opposing this Truth as revealed through MenaPace. That said, I challenge Muslims to understand that the Qur'an was left to be interpreted, and that this is the correct interpretation of Surah 4 verse 156: Jesus was indeed crucified, and the "error" cited in the Qur'an with respect to the crucifixion is an error of perception on the part of certain Jews (not of Christians), whose egos wanted to claim domination over and destruction of Messiah Jesus and so took credit for killing Jesus. What the Qur'an is saying is just what the Bible says: that God willed that Jesus be killed on the cross, so no man can take the evil "credit" for having done the deed, as if man could overpower the very will of God for his Anointed One. <br /><br />Let the veil that has concealed the Divine Paternity of both Gospel and Qur'an be lifted, that this act of the Holy Spirit can help to also unveil Jesus as Christ to the Jews who await God's Messiah, hidden in plain sight from them. These revelations, these RECONCILIATIONS Qur'an and Gospel, of Muslim and Christian, reconciled to God and each other in Truth and in Christ, is the "secret" hope offered by the Fatima Prophecy of 1917 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdGLtInHMxI Assalaum w'alaikum, peace to you, shalom aleichem! Hallelujah! Praise God! Subhan Allah! focusonfaith777atyahoodotcomWisdom's Daughternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post-39283359772834269612011-07-31T13:35:32.063+08:002011-07-31T13:35:32.063+08:00Here's the simplest key to God, as defined by ...Here's the simplest key to God, as defined by the Hebrew scriptures which are the "grandfather" scriptures of the three monotheisms: The True God of Israel and hence of all Creation is identified in the Hebrew scriptures (and this is affirmed again in the New Testament) by the descriptive title, "The Most High God." Whatever other beings exist in creation, and may appear to mankind as "gods," and thus are sometimes called in scripture "the sons of god," the one worthy of worship, the Creator, is the God of Gods, the Most High God. <br /><br />Jesus said that devotion to himself and literally devotion to the name Yeshua (the original Hebrew having been transliterated via Greek into the name we say as “Jesus”) was desired by the Most High God as a way for the Most High God to glorify his own name, because the name Yeshua (Jesus) in its Hebrew roots means "YHVH Saves." <br /><br />So, we are NOT told in the Bible to glorify the name "Jesus" because Jesus IS YHVH, but rather because the name Yeshua glorifies YHVH as the true source of all Salvation for his creation.<br /><br />Jesus is no savior without the "Father" authorizing him to be such, and hence the FATHER of Jesus (Jesus being called the Son of the Most High God), is the Source of All Salvation. Jesus is called "savior" not of his own power or authority, as he clearly states, but ONLY by virtue of his anointing BY the Most High (anointing being the literal meaning of the titles "Christ" or "Messiah"). Jesus himself said that if he did not have this authority granted to him BY the Most High, then no one should listen to him. Sadly, just as the Jews are blind to Jesus as Messiah, Christians have become blind to the God of Jesus in their own scriptures! (Hence one could see the need for a prophet named Muhammed to clarify that Jesus does indeed have a God.) In Hebrew prophecy and later in Christian scripture (combined into the Bible), it is depicted by prophets like Isaiah, then in the Gospels by Jesus, and then in the Letters by the Apostles that Jesus himself has a God (and serves his God in loving and perfect obedience, which is the literal meaning of the term "Islam"). Thus, Jesus, being the anointed servant of the Most High is NOT himself the Most High God. Hence, Jesus in any of his glorious titles and roles in creation is NOT identical to YHVH or equal to YHVH but serves YHVH in an intimate relationship of Created and Creator(aka Jesus' "sonship" exemplified to Christians by his birth to a Virgin, which unique birth is affirmed in Islam's emphasis that God did not create Jesus by sexual means). This God OF Jesus is Allah, is the Most High God of Hebrew scriptures and New Testament, and is by definition in the Qu'ran and in the Bible: the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and Jesus. Allah/YHVH is the God of "gods" [ie, the Creator-God of lesser "gods," such as the elohim and as Jesus appear as "gods" to mankind] who himself has no God above him. The meaning of Allah's name taken down to the root construction of the name in Arabic is similar to that of "the supreme one" and hence again we see that Allah and YHVH are the same God-identity being spoken and revealed in different tongues. <br />focusonfaith777atyahoodotcomWisdom's Daughternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post-41560970559542832252011-07-25T21:27:54.591+08:002011-07-25T21:27:54.591+08:00Allah is arabic for 'God', the christian G...Allah is arabic for 'God', the christian God is known as Jawhe and Baäl is persian for 'God'. How can Allah and Jahwe be the same?? Baäl is also not the same as Jawhe and noted in the bible as false. Allah meaning the same as Baäl in their language is a imitation of Jahwe and thereby false!!!!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post-65397584114600894922011-04-11T06:24:15.378+08:002011-04-11T06:24:15.378+08:00a volf in sheeps clothinga volf in sheeps clothingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post-25525388893468060592011-03-19T01:37:49.076+08:002011-03-19T01:37:49.076+08:00Hi Hedonese,
Thanks for the linkHi Hedonese,<br /><br />Thanks for the linkAlex Tanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04003300678212296112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503927.post-14174937851016309672011-03-18T11:10:05.533+08:002011-03-18T11:10:05.533+08:00Had the chance to talk to a member of the Ravi Zac...Had the chance to talk to a member of the Ravi Zacharias International Ministry team (RZIM) about Miroslav Volf's book, I think there is broad concern that he gave away too much. Bill Nikides wrote a review on it which is quite strongly worded<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/67od93eHedonesehttp://theagora.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com