My God and my faith fits the Nicene creed -
We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.
Do you believe in Jesus? If so, tell me why the word of your prophet is more important than the word of the son of God.
I would like to say few things. First of all it would seem strange that while a God was overseeing His creation, another God was being created in a womb of a woman in a form of a man who is part of the same God
. So this would imply God has duality and that His 'Divine Essence' has been divided which in islam and judaism means being One in Absolute Form and that the so called 'Father' would be carrying out different commands like allowing Jesus to be killed while the 'son' would have no choice but to be 'killed'. This would imply more of a master-slave relationship involving two beings. This would be known as polytheism from islamic and jewish point of view.
From 'Divine Essence' point of view this would imply 'I am going to divide myself in partly divine form and partly human form so first I will send myself to my creation and then after a period of time I am going to get myself killed by my creation. If God gets killed then the whole creation is destroyed. Hmm I wonder why we are still here
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Also it would appear that right from Jesus birth, him being in a 'man form' which we don't know how it appears would be controlling the whole universe and beyond. What happens to the 'father' now
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So while Jesus was sleeping he would know exactly what is happening. So while Jesus was walking and talking with his disciples he would also be creating children in the womb of mothers (women) who also happen to be his creations. He would also be causing countless humans to die while he was having a nice meal in his home prepared by his creation.
While Jesus (God) was being killed on the cross (according to christian tradition) by his creation, there would be business and trade taking place in far east or africa or anywhere else for that matter.
And those people (creation) that killed Jesus (God) would already be damned. And if jesus forgave them then that would mean 'I created myself in human form and I allowed myself to be killed by you whom I also created and today I forgive you'.
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My statements may seem contradictory but that's cause the duality of God is contradictory and confusing for logical minds.
If you met an average joe on street and he claimed I am son of god and control the whole universe and know everything while I asleep, you would immediately say he has gone mad and would probably send him to mental hospital.
The thing is if christians claim Prophet Muhammed was a madman and a liar, then what evidence do they have that jesus was god when Bible doesn't even mention jesus sa saying that I am god and worship me. Jesus could easily be another madman and an imposter and as such has already been rejected by judaism and jews.
Its funny that atheists reject all religions, christianity rejects islamic theology and islam rejects christian theology and judaism rejects islam and christianity. However one thing both judaism and islam agree upon is the definition of God which is One true God in absolute form without any partner and rivals and that God doesn't come in human form.
Moreover When God spoke to Moses, Moses never referred to him as Jesus and that there is no mention in Torah of jesus being son of god or god or in Quran for that matter.
When comparing western traditions to islamic traditions it is wrong to say judeo-christian traditions vs islamic traditions. Judaism is a middle eastern semitic religion just like Islam is a middle eastern semitic religion. Both religions have same outlook on God as I mentioned before and have many similarities. Both the Hebrew and Arabic are semitic languages and both the hebrews and arabs are cousins and related to Abraham.
In fact there is a youtube video where a yemeni jew is explaining about the similarities between islam and judaism with regards to the definition of God. He mentions that 'Eloah' or 'Elah' is used in hebrew to mean One God:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw0BFMRQFPI&feature=related
Also I would like to know what happened to original bible as it must have been written in aramaic, the language jesus claimed to spoke. It seems that nowadays you have so many versions of Bible and written in so many languages, I doubt they even mean the same thing. As for Quran it is still written in arabic language. So the core content of Quran remains the same as it was more than 1400 years ago. But we have translations of arabic in various languages for non arabic people to understand.
In the end from islamic Point of View, God is One in absolute form. So in this sense Judaism and even unitarian christians would be closer to Islam. Adam to Muhammed are God's prophets and slaves including Moses and Jesus. Jesus had miraculous birth and in the case of Adam he was born without any mother or father yet they are all just humans. Nothing else. They are all referred to as brothers among themselves. If christians claim Jesus is divine then he must know about Prophet Muhammed. I would like to know the Jesus stance on prophet Muhammed.
