{"id":2415,"date":"2012-08-15T20:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T20:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2012-08-15T20:13:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T20:13:44","slug":"islam-one-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/2415\/islam-one-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam \/ One God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, Pastor John:<\/span><\/p>\n

There was an article that I was reading about, The Five Pillars of Islam. In one of the pillars, it talks about God being one God, then it says, “God begets not, nor was he begotten”.<\/span><\/p>\n

— Shia Islamic Faith is based on the following<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Monotheism: The Oneness of Allah<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Allah, or God, is the center of Muslim belief. Whereas certain religions focus on individuals, like Christianity focuses on Jesus, Islam focuses solely on Allah. Although Muslims respect the divine prophets, the prophets – including Muhammad – are still only servants of Allah.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Qur’an speaks of the oneness of God: “Allah has borne witness that there is no God but Him – and the angels, and those with knowledge also witness this. He is always standing firm on justice. There is no God but Him, the Mighty, the Wise.” (3:18)<\/span><\/p>\n

Describing God<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the shortest chapters of the Qur’an, “The Oneness of God”,[5] summarizes the nature of God in five verses:<\/span><\/p>\n

In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/span>
\n Say, He is Allah, the One<\/span>
\n Allah, the Eternal<\/span>
\n He begets not, nor was He begotten<\/span><\/span>
\n And there is nothing at all comparable to Him.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The above sure explains away John 3:16: “For this is the way God loved the world: He gave up His only begotten<\/span> Son, so that all who believe in him should not perish but have eternal life.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I also was thinking of all the blessings the people serving Islam or any other religion will never know (in Spirit) because they try explain Jesus away (underlined above), though He gives the rain and sunshine; they experience Jesus’ blessings everyday, but don’t know they come from Him. Then, I was thinking about Christianity, (Xty), and the ones serving it. People will never know Jesus or the freedom of the Spirit with Xty’s rituals and ordinances; and Xty explains Jesus away with their doctrine of the Trinity, and their ceremonies, though it speaks His name more than any religion on this planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are so very blessed to know who Jesus is (in our hearts). I was listening to a CD this week, and you were saying that people are going to the lake of fire because they don’t know who Jesus is, even if they proclaim his name. It just makes you very humble, knowing where we are, together, and the time that Jesus has taken with everyone of us to bring us together to know him. It’s like that song, “I Want To Know Him More.” That is my prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n

billy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, Pastor John: There was an article that I was reading about, The Five Pillars of Islam. In one of the pillars, it talks about God being one God, then it says, “God begets not, nor was he begotten”. — Shia Islamic Faith is based on the following 1. Monotheism: The Oneness of Allah Allah, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}