Interfaith Dialogue - Islam and Christianity

[The_Old_Man]

Re: Interfaith Dialogue - Islam and Christianity

@USResident

How will you recognize God in human form when people could not even accept prophets who were from among them. There must be something in the human being to enforce the idea that he is God incarnate. What was there in Jesus PBUH that proves he is God in human form? Surely, if we can witness God out of the unseen then there is no test of faith. There is no need for faith.

John the Baptist, while in prison, also started to doubt about Jesus being the Messiah/Christ. He send two of his disciples to query Jesus. Jesus asked them to tell John that “The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor”. Jesus basically quoted Isa.61 to show that he was the promised one. Jesus indicated that signs and wonders will follow God in human form.

In future, by means of the Holy Spirit as explained by Jesus:

I will send him (the Councellor or Holy Spirit) to you. When he comes he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgement: in regards to sin, because men do not believe in me…the Spirit of truth…will guide you into all truth - Joh.16v5-15

In fact, Christianity do not need the Bible. In the early stages of growth of the Christian church, there were no New Testament. The Church were close to the working of the Holy Spirit. Once Christians started intellectualising God and Jesus’ teachings, and not to trust in the Holy Spirit that they started to go wrong.

@USResident

If God appeared in so many human forms then why diefy Jesus PBUH only. Does this not indicate that the form in which God appeared according to the bible is irrelevant because it happened in many different places in different times in different forms to different people. So the only true God, which is one no matter in what shape or form he appeared should be worshipped rather than selecting one shape or form. And further more were all the other forms of God also triune, there is nothing in the bible to suggest that. So did the nature of God change over time.

“God” did not appear in many human forms. An entity representing God in human form appeared in all cases and Christians accept that it was Jesus since no other explanation exist.