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At Wheaton College, a professor, Larycia Hawkins, was fired because she said "Muslims and Christians worship the same God." She also said that she believes in "solidarity" with the muslims as that would be what Jesus would teach. In a press conference she said she was a Christian because her father was a pastor and she responded to an "altar call". Further to this, she said she also believes in Mother Mary and saints.
First of all, muslims believe in Allah as god, and for them, in the Qu'ran - Allah is self-sufficient and cannot have a son. Thus, they regard Jesus Christ only as a man, a prophet and not God.
In the Qur'an we find the following two statements:
39:4
" Had Allah wished to take to Himself a son,
He could have chosen whom He pleased out of those whom He doth create: but Glory be to Him! (He is above such things.)
He is Allah, the One, the Irresistible. (Yusuf Ali)
If Allah had willed to choose a son,
He could have chosen what He would of that which He hath created.
Be He Glorified! He is Allah, the One, the Absolute. (Pickthall)
6:101
Wonderful Originator of the heavens and the earth;
How can He have a son when He has no consort?
He created all things, and He hath full knowledge of all things. "
(Sura 39:4 and 6:101 agree on the actuality, that Allah does not have a son, but they contradict each other in the issue of ability or possibility.
Sura 39:4 clearly states that God could have taken Himself a son from among his creation, i.e. without the necessity of a consort to father such a son. But Sura 6:101 clearly rejects the same idea as a logical impossibility.)
Secondly, Christians worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whom He renamed "Israel" in Genesis 35:10. The God Christians worship is the God of Israel - "For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. " (Isaiah 43:3)
Muslims do not accept that Jesus Christ is God's Son and is One with God.
"I and the Father are One." (John 10:30)
Jesus Christ, being God, existed before creation - "Before Abraham was born, I am." (John 8:58)
Jesus Christ, Who is God, was with the Father and the Holy Spirit before Creation even came to be. (John 1:1-3) " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made."
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." (Genesis 1:1-2) Therefore, God is Father, Son, and Spirit at Creation as these verses tell us.
Jesus Christ is God because only Christ performed the miracles no man could ever do, and He alone died and rose again ALIVE after three days. No man could ever do that except God. Jesus knew some people will still deny Him even with the miracles they have seen
John 15:23-25 "Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well. If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both Me and My Father. But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason."
God exists in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In Genesis 1:26 God said - "Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, in Our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
Genesis 3:22 says - "And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
In Genesis 18 Abraham had Three Visitors and he addressed them as "LORD." In John 15 and 16 Jesus Christ mentioned the Holy Spirit Whom He will send from the Father. In all these verses, we see that God exists as One in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - They are never separate.
In Christ Jesus, the fullness of God was revealed.
"For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form," (Colossians 2:9)
Anyone can claim that he/she is a "Christian" as Larycia Hawkins claims. The problem with her theology is that she calls the God of Israel as the same as the muslim god "Allah" thereby DENYING Jesus Christ, God's Son, and the Holy Spirit.
She quotes Pope Francis, who also made a FALSE statement saying "the Bible and the Qu'ran are the same and Jesus Christ is the same name used for God as Allah." These people are not Christians, they do not know Who God is and they NEVER were reborn in the Spirit. This is why they mouth erroneous teachings not realizing they are accountable to God for every word.
"The man without the Spirit does not accept the things of the Spirit because they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned. " (1 Corinthians 2:14)
Cynthia Buhain-Baello ~~~~02.09.16
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