Thank you. Yes, if the doctrine is contradictory, then I myself would reject it. For a logical contradiction can never be true. But perhaps it's only an apparent contradiction, rather than a real one?
Jesus pbuh as 100% God didn't know the hour, didn't know who touched his clothes in Mark's Gospel, didn't know the fig tree was bare. You will respond, yes in his human nature he had limited knowledge, and was making a point using the fig tree, but he's 100% God 100% of the time, so how can this make sense?
The Holy Spirit didn't know the hour either, why was he limited?
Agreed. Though we use only about 10% of the capacity of our brains, even if the brain of Jesus (peace be upon him) used 100%, it would still not be able to know all that the God knows.
Agreed, we know what has been revealed including:
He is One
He is unlike His creation
He hates human sacrifice
He tells us, no one will bear the sin of another
This is taught in Judaism and Islam. Christianity is at odds here.
It's possible, though, that the passing of knowledge from the God to Jesus pbuh was like that of the passing of data from a server to a client on a computer network. The God decides what the human needs to know and gives him just that amount of information, since his human brain can't contain all that the God knows. Does that sound possible?
Yes I fully understand and can agree, but we have been given the basics to understand and follow. Mankind possesses differing levels of understanding and intellect. God knows this and thus makes things simple for us to follow and understand:
GOD is One
We must worship him
We must not worship that which is created
We must turn to him, both in the good and bad times.
We must treat each other as we wish to be treated.
We must do good works for the sake of God
We must repent for our sins and turn to Him
This is taught in Judaism and Islam. Christianity worships Jesus pbuh, a man born of Mary, herself a creation of God.
So the doctrine is this: The God is one what in three whos.
EDIT: To demonstrate it is taught in the Bible requires that one find these five teachings:
- There is only one God
- God is in the Father
- God is in the Spirit
- God is in the Son
- The Father, Spirit and Son are different persons
Are you of the opinion that these five premises aren't supported by the biblical texts?
Yes you can find verses showing all the above. Can you show me a verse showing the 3 are co eternal and equal?
I've read an English translation of the Koran, (Qu'ran?) and I liked a good deal of it.
Qur'an means recitation. The power comes from listening to it in Arabic. 10 mins of that with headphones on in a relaxed environment should grab your soul and reconnect it to the master server
It should remember when, in the beginning it too was a word with God:
Qur'an 7:172
And [mention] when your Lord took from the children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants and made them testify of themselves, [saying to them], "Am I not your Lord?" They said, "Yes, we have testified." [This] - lest you should say on the day of Resurrection, "Indeed, we were of this unaware."
Surah Al-Fatihah [1]
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