I always thought that the god christians worship is the same god I worship who is God or Allah or Yaweh or whatever else you want to call Him. Sometimes, though, Christians say Jesus is god and some say Jesus was the son of God. So which one is it? Does it just depend on which denomination you are?
oh and please no answers that are intended on converting me or bashing Islam because i'm a very firm believer in my religion, thank you.
2006-11-05 13:53:40 · 35 answers · asked by dreams 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't fully understand it, nor do I expect to in this life, but it's kind of like this.
God to us is probably what Allah is to you. Jesus is God in human form who came to earth to become the sacrifice for our sins, while God remained in Heaven.
There's one more. There is God in a Spiritual manifestation going on at the same time as the other two.
He is One God, in three different forms, at the same time. One mind, three forms.
2006-11-05 13:59:57 · answer #1 · answered by nancy jo 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I worship a man named Jesus who was the Christ.
The creator of the universe created for Himself a body of flesh which was incubated in a virgin named Mary. The very creator took on human form and, putting aside his glory, walked a mile in our shoes and then suffered death to redeem His creation.
Jesus said that He was the I Am that spoke to Moses in the burning bush. He was the God that parted the Red Sea and the pillar of fire that led the children of Israel forty years in the wilderness. After His brief fleshly work, He was again the pillar of fire that appeared to St. Paul.
Jehovah, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the same God in three manifestations through recorded history. There is no conflict in the statement that Jesus was the Son and at the same time God. Those who make Him less than God are deceived. For the Jesus of the New Testament is Jehovah of the Old Testament. And the Holy Spirit given at Pentecost is the same voice that spoke to Abraham, to Moses, to St. Peter, St. Paul and many others.
It is thus written in Scripture - Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today and forever. The gospel of John says: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Same was in the beginning with God. (not a created being) All things were made by Him and without Him was not any thing made that was made ....and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us....
Thus the only begotton Son came out of the bosom of the Father to declare the glory of God in the flesh.
Every earthly father is a son.
However the Son named Jesus had no father but God and they were together from the beginning. Jesus, then as now, has life. None but God has life. Said Jesus, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me. In other words one comes to the eternal spirit, the eternal Father, the Father of lights through Jesus who is the essence, the creative Word projected from the bosom of the Father -- the very heart of Jehovah.
Who is Jesus -- He is God handing you His heart and life eternal.
2006-11-05 15:30:10 · answer #2 · answered by Tommy 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Doesn't Islam teach a Son of the only God. Does it not say in the beginning there was God and the Word, and word was with God and the word was God. The Word is Jesus and Jesus is God because there is a trinity, The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit, the three make God another word for God is family.
For this reason a man takes a wife so that they can become one. Is that not familiar to you, a man and a woman becomes one through their children and they become one family. It really isn't that hard to understand and no one can convert anyone who doesn't want to be converted, one converts through knowledge and research of what is the truth. Peace be with you.
2006-11-05 14:00:09 · answer #3 · answered by Neptune2bsure 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
'I and My Father are ONE'...God existed through Jesus! I'm sorry, but if you worship the same God as us, who is the God of Israel; the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob...why then do you believe the Israelis stole land from Muslims? I'm just curious, not bashing!
About the denomination thing, no, we all believe what the Bible says! But I don't like the whole denomination thingy, the people get carried away from the true meaning!
=)
2006-11-05 18:49:51 · answer #4 · answered by -♦One-♦-Love♦- 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus is one part of the Godhead. God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit. Three aspects of one God.
2006-11-05 16:48:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dogma of the Trinity says that in God's eternal being, God is not a monad, but a communion of love among three co-eternal persons, Father, Son, and Spirit. All are God, and their communion of love is such that they are one God, not three. The Son and the Spirit have their "arche," or origin, in the Father, but from all eternity.
The dogma of the Incarnation says that the second of these Persons assumed human nature in the Incarnation, i.e., that he was born, lived, suffered, and died as a human being.
Although I do not accept these dogmas, I see that they represent a qualitative advance over the monotheism of the Old Testament. God is not an utterly transcendent monad, but a communion of love which embraces, enters into, and suffers with creation. This is why Christian theology can affirm that "God is love" in a much more serious and thoroughgoing way than Jewish or Islamic theology.
2006-11-05 14:08:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The answers you get will depend upon whether the respondent is a Trinitarian or not. Trinitarians usually believe in one God with three aspects--Father, Son and Holy Ghost. But non-Trinitarians believe that God the Father is supreme and Jesus fulfills a somewhat different function, but is still the Savior. They may still believe in the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, but understand them in a different way than a Trinitarian would.
2006-11-05 13:57:31 · answer #7 · answered by thaliax 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
In our faith, Jesus is both the Son of God, and also God himself.
Christians believe in a triune Godhead. God has a single being, but three distinct aspects or personhoods. One is God the Father, the source of creation. God the Father is in an undending state of begetting and loving the Son, Jesus.
God the Son, or Jesus, is the eternally begotten son. He is the word of God, through which creation was spoken into existence. He is also the source of the renewed creation, which is salvation from death into life. He is the source of this because of his death on the cross and ressurection from the grave.
The Holy Spirit, in traditional western theology is the love of the Father for the Son, and the love of the Son for the Father. The Holy Spirit is also God's will at work in the world - the means by which God interacts with the faithful and the world at large.
So - because of this. Jesus is God. God the Son. And he is the Son of God the Father. So the answer, in short is "yes" and also "yes."
2006-11-05 14:01:39 · answer #8 · answered by evolver 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Jesus is God. Christians who say otherwise either do not know the fundamentals of the faith, are apostate, or are heretics. The Apostle's and Nicene Creeds both affirm this doctrine, and the biblical evidence is overwhelming.
Jesus said of Himself that He was God. He applied the name of God, "I AM," to Himself in several passages. Here's a few examples: Matthew 14:27, Mark 6:50, Mark 13:6, Luke 21:8, John 4:26, John 6:20, John 8:24, 28, 58, and John 13:19. (Some English translations have mistranslated the words "I am" to "It is I," or "I am He.")
Jesus received worship, which is reserved only for God:
"Then the men in the boat began to worship Jesus, saying, "You certainly are the Son of God!" (Matthew 14:33)
"Suddenly Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" They went up to him, took hold of his feet, and worshiped him." (Matthew 28:9)
"They worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy." (Luke 24:52)
"He said, "Lord, I do believe," and worshiped him." (John 9:38)
Further, the god of Muhammad is not the Father of Jesus. The Qur'an states rather clearly, "Proclaim: Allah is One. Allah is Eternal. He neither begets nor was begotten." (Surah 112:1-4)
In Christianity, we believe that Jesus was begotten. (John 1:14) And we believe Jesus to be God.
Now, we have a conundrum. Either Islam is right, and Jesus is not God, nor begotten; or Christianity is right, and Jesus is God, and is begotten. We can't have it both ways. Islam will never hold to a belief that Jesus is God. And Christians will not accept that Jesus is not God, and is not begotten. Therefore, they do not worship the same God.
2006-11-05 13:59:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
That's a good question! It would be really confusing for a Muslim I imagine.
Most all christians (catholics and prodestants) believe in a thing called the trinity. That is God (the father), God (the son/Jesus) and God (the holy spirit). They are 3 beings in one. So they would use the term god for Jesus as well. And they still consider themselves as worshipping ONE god! Interesting huh?
2006-11-05 13:58:42 · answer #10 · answered by Black Parade Billie 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
They are simultaneously one and different, they are one in purpose, whilst retaining separate identities, God the Father and Jesus the son. Similarly there is a lover and a beloved, both are one in love, but there is always two separate entities.
Sometimes God comes himself to the material world and sometimes he sends his son or prophet to represent him, in different social milieus and according to time and circumstance, the representative is fully empowered by God to deliver the pure message of how to gain release from the prison-house of material existence and return home, back to Godhead.
The son, prophet or spiritual master, never becomes God but acts only in accordance with the will of God, therefore it is to be understood that God is working through the pure heart of such a representative to attract as many living entities as possible back to their constitutional position in the absolute or spiritual realm.
2006-11-05 14:10:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋