One thing I have observed in life is that Christians are very quick to alienate those they claim to want to reach over subtle, arcane points of theology instead of trying to find common ground.
Here is a good explanation of the issue I found from a noted Bible scholar, Derek Prince. “Muslims reject with scorn the suggestion that God has a Son. God has no need of a son they say. In fact, they have actually inscribed ‘God has no son’ on the Mosque of Omar in the Temple area of Jerusalem.
To the contrary, the supreme revelation of the Christian Bible is that God has one Son, manifested in history as Jesus of Nazareth, who is to be honored above all others. It was this Son who on the cross offered Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. Islam, however, rejects the biblical account of the death of Jesus on the cross. It claims that at the last moment before Jesus died, an angel rescued Him and carried Him away, and another man of similar appearance was substituted for Him.
Because Islam has no sacrifice for sin, it cannot offer a remedy for sin. In fact, Islam does not acknowledge that there is a ‘sin problem’. Islam is essentially a religion of works. If your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds Islam teaches that you will make it to a Muslim Paradise.
Every Muslim is required to recite the following confession: ‘There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is the messenger of God.’ No Muslim, it is claimed who makes this confession will ultimately remain in Hell. However, those who repudiate this claim will be punished by conscious, eternal damnation in hellfire.
According to the Bible, our attitude toward the Son of God reveals our true spiritual condition. In 1 John 2:22 the apostle tells us ‘Who is a liar, but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ (Messiah)? ‘He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.‘ Since Islam denies the Father/Son relationship in God this clearly marks it as an antichrist.’”
Those all sound like good reasons for me to have disagreement with them. The first problem is that I have read that when Muslims reject the "sonship" of God, they are merely rejecting the idea that the everlasting, singular deity would engage in sexual intercourse to produce the beginnings of a pantheon of gods; they do not understand that when Christians use the word "son," they don't mean it literally. The second problem is that most Christians also have a works-based religion because they do not truly understand the Gospel either, yet we refer to them as "weaker brothers," not followers of a different god. It still seems like a semantics argument.
You’re suggesting a lot of different possibilities but one thing I’m sure of is that Allah of Islam is not the same as our Christian God. They are total opposites. There’s a wonderful testimony by an Iranian who explains what Islam is really like at YouTube.com/MohamadFaridi
He puts out a lot of videos. Is there one video that explains why it makes more sense to think of Allah as a different God rather than thinking of Muslims as merely wrong about what they think God is like?
Here is a good explanation of the issue I found from a noted Bible scholar, Derek Prince. “Muslims reject with scorn the suggestion that God has a Son. God has no need of a son they say. In fact, they have actually inscribed ‘God has no son’ on the Mosque of Omar in the Temple area of Jerusalem.
To the contrary, the supreme revelation of the Christian Bible is that God has one Son, manifested in history as Jesus of Nazareth, who is to be honored above all others. It was this Son who on the cross offered Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. Islam, however, rejects the biblical account of the death of Jesus on the cross. It claims that at the last moment before Jesus died, an angel rescued Him and carried Him away, and another man of similar appearance was substituted for Him.
Because Islam has no sacrifice for sin, it cannot offer a remedy for sin. In fact, Islam does not acknowledge that there is a ‘sin problem’. Islam is essentially a religion of works. If your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds Islam teaches that you will make it to a Muslim Paradise.
Every Muslim is required to recite the following confession: ‘There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is the messenger of God.’ No Muslim, it is claimed who makes this confession will ultimately remain in Hell. However, those who repudiate this claim will be punished by conscious, eternal damnation in hellfire.
According to the Bible, our attitude toward the Son of God reveals our true spiritual condition. In 1 John 2:22 the apostle tells us ‘Who is a liar, but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ (Messiah)? ‘He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.‘ Since Islam denies the Father/Son relationship in God this clearly marks it as an antichrist.’”
Those all sound like good reasons for me to have disagreement with them. The first problem is that I have read that when Muslims reject the "sonship" of God, they are merely rejecting the idea that the everlasting, singular deity would engage in sexual intercourse to produce the beginnings of a pantheon of gods; they do not understand that when Christians use the word "son," they don't mean it literally. The second problem is that most Christians also have a works-based religion because they do not truly understand the Gospel either, yet we refer to them as "weaker brothers," not followers of a different god. It still seems like a semantics argument.
You’re suggesting a lot of different possibilities but one thing I’m sure of is that Allah of Islam is not the same as our Christian God. They are total opposites. There’s a wonderful testimony by an Iranian who explains what Islam is really like at YouTube.com/MohamadFaridi
He puts out a lot of videos. Is there one video that explains why it makes more sense to think of Allah as a different God rather than thinking of Muslims as merely wrong about what they think God is like?