To grip daddy -
04-27-2008, 04:32 AM
Praise be to Allaah.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to communicate and discuss the truth which we all need to know and follow, no matter what our previous differences of opinion and beliefs. It is only by means of this, I mean by knowing the truth and following it, that we can free ourselves of our sins, as it says in your Bible:“Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free”John 8:31 (NIV)
So let us pause for a while and think about this truth, as it is stated in your Bible despite all the distortions and changes that have happened to it!The message that was brought by the Messiah (peace be upon him) was the call to worship God, the One, the Lord of the Messiah and the Lord of the worlds:
“Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” John 17:3
“A certain ruler asked him: ‘Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ Why do you call me good?’ Jesus answered. ‘No one is good – except God alone.’Luke 18:18-19
“The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.And he said to him, ‘I will give you all their authority and splendour, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to.So if you worship me, it will all be yours.’Jesus answered, ‘It is written: “Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.”Luke 4:5-8
Believing in and worshipping Allaah alone, besides Whom there is no other god, is the greatest teaching brought by the Messiah, and it is the greatest teaching brought by all the Prophets.
“One of the teachers of the law came and noticed them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, ‘Of all the commandments, which is the most important?’The most important one,’ answered Jesus, ‘is this: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.(mark 12:28-34)
But do not think that this advice was given to Israel or to his own people only. Rather this is the basis of the teachings of all the Prophets. The same advice appears in the Gospel of Matthew, in similar wording, after which he says: “All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:39
This belief in the oneness of God is indeed the message of all of the Prophets. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “And We did not send any Messenger before you (O Muhammad) but We revealed to him (saying): Laa ilaaha illa Ana (none has the right to be worshipped but I (Allaah)), so worship Me (Alone and none else)”(al-Anbiya’ 21:25)
This is the basic message to which the Messiah called people and warned them against differing from that.This is the basic principle on which we should all agree.
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “Say (O Muhammad): ‘O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians): Come to a word that is just between us and you, that we worship none but Allaah (Alone), and that we associate no partners with Him, and that none of us shall take others as lords besides Allaah.’ Then, if they turn away, say: ‘Bear witness that we are Muslims’(Aal ‘Imraan 3:64)
It is alien to true Christianity, this futile attempt to reconcile the belief in the Oneness of God, which is the message brought by the Prophets, and which is clearly stated in their Bible, and affirmed in the Torah in particular, with your belief in the trinity.
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