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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

10 questions that we often receive (as christians)

4.When the Prophet was worshipped as the Lord, still not become polytheist?
This also often we received in the everyday life, the question that salahun wa Al-kaprahun! Answered then: Jesus Christ indeed a Prophet, but that's for you, not for Christians. For Christians Jesus Christ more than a Prophet, Logos or the Word of God (Kalimatullah) personally that 'nuzul', materialised in the body of a humankind.
According to me, conception about who of Jesus that distinguished between Christian thinking and non-Christian (Jewish or Islam). For Jews, Jesus was greatest only a Rabbi level from Galilea, the rest was Jesus's insulting terms, like: the Israeli nation swindler, a stupid, the leprosy sufferer, the hypnotist and black magic, the illegitimate child produced by Maria's adultery with the Rome troops named Panthera/Pandera et cetera as being contained in Talmud. It was clear, not there is very good him. Moreover recuperation that was carried out in Jesus's name then a matter that was forbidden for Jews. Jesus for Jews was the person who took excessive measures because as humankind but compared himself with God that meant to blaspheme God so as to have to be punished.
For muslims, Jesus was a person among the prophets who really were honored, in fact Jesus's name was then mentioned more of the in the name of other prophets, and including the person who was foremost in the world and in the hereafter (wa jihan fii Al-du him wa Al-akhiraati). In the Islamic mystical clerics, Jesus in fact it was considered as “the prophet of heart”. A prophet that the process of his existence immediately through the sentence ‘Kun’ (kun faya kun, Be! Then so. ) without the process of the sexual reproduction. That could speak since in the content of his mother and various other miracle gifts. But only that. Nothing more. Not more than that, in fact Jesus was the only prophet who was reprimanded or interrogated by God in Al-Qur’an.
The challenge for us as Christians was explained that Jesus not only the prophet, rabbi, the healer, the holy teacher, a mystic/asketis, the teacher Veda, Buddhist reincarnation et cetera. Jesus was the lasting Word of God, that has nuzul (incarnate), materialised in himself a humankind. Jesus was acknowledged as the Lord in his capacity as Kalimatullah (the Word of God) this. For Christians, Jesus not only a "result" from the sentence ‘Kun’ this but the sentence ‘Kun’ that personally, and by the sentence ‘Kun’ this also all available in the great space and in the earth was created. God created everything with His Word, and His Word this that afterwards ‘nuzul’ in the earth ± in the last 2000 years to ‘flesh’ in Jesus from Nazaret. Kai ho Logos sarx egeneto (And the Word of God became flesh). So completely wrong if it was considered resembled-lord-would a prophet that only humankind because of Jesus was the Word of God that has ‘nuzul’ to the world, while the Word of God was adhered (qaimah) in Himself, so as when mentioning the Lord Jesus Christians mentioned the Lord to this word of God not to Jesus as humankind therefore was not "syirk" in this case.
That was expected by us to be so that Christian group does not force itself to consider the Christian teaching with version terms of their teaching personally because of might be words that were used same but meaningfully very different so as not fair to apply between one religious teaching with the other religious teaching. “The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God; .... “ (Rom 14:22a, NAS)

Thursday, December 25, 2008

10 questions

3.Did Jesus become the Lord since the Council of Nicaea in the year 325 AD?
The question that was conspiratorial above indeed has been in the period pre and post the first ecumenical council was spread out in Nikea in the year 325. The certain Christian group lightly levelled these charges. The certain Christian group lightly levelled these charges. That was most important we stressed as the follower Jesus was that God personally that made Jesus become the Lord and Christ. Since long before the Council of Nicaea 325 were held, group's Christian belief that Jesus was the Lord and Christ has adhered. At least this matter could be seen from the view of church fathers like Ignatius of Antioch (105 AD) stated that Jesus was God personally that was manifested in the form of humankind. Clement of Alexandria (150 AD) said that already appropriately we thought that Christ was God. There was also Justin Martyr (160 AD), Irenaeus (180 AD), Tertulian (200 AD), Origen (225 AD), Novatian (235 AD), Cyprianus (250 AD), Methodius (290 AD), Lactantius (304 AD), Amobius (305 AD) and still many others fathers's line the Church that stated that Jesus was the Lord, long before the holding of the Council of Nicaea in the year 325 AD that indeed was placed on the agenda to face the teaching of Arius of Alexandria heresy that said that Jesus was not a true God (pre-Jesus's existence) but only a creation creature completely by raising the theory that there is during where the Word of God was not yet despite that already a long time ago before the commencement of God's creation. Jesus did not become to be Lord through the Nicaean Council 325 because long before Christians already since the beginning the reporting of the apostles believe in that Jesus was the Lord and Christ despite with the understanding would conception of the godhead of Jesus that differed. Christian faith distinguished between the meaning of Jesus's godliness (the Divine/Godhead of Jesus) and the deity Jesus (the Lordship of Jesus). Jesus's godliness showed the Word of God that was lasting with God and always adhered in His Ousia (Yoh 1:1-3) that was comparable with Islamic theology that stated Al-Qur’an as kalam nafsy (the everlasting words).