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April 16 - April 16, 2023
sajda,
“But how can Allah be just if He ‘simply forgives’ arbitrarily? God is not arbitrary. He is absolutely just.
How would He be just if He forgave arbitrarily? No, He cannot ‘just forgive us if He chooses.’ The penalty for my sins must be paid.”
takbir.
A man is Muslim if he exclusively declares that Allah is God and Muhammad is Allah’s messenger.
Muslims believe that Jesus is no more than a prophet, and to consider him God incarnate would be blasphemy and would cause one to be condemned to hell eternally, according to the Quran.
Christians believe that those who teach contrarily to the gospel of salvation through Jesus are false teachers.
Much of the West’s inability to understand the East stems from the paradigmatic schism
between honor-shame cultures and innocence-guilt cultures.
Actually doing the right thing did not enter into the equation, and neither did guilt.
it is safe to say that guilt is less of a determining factor in the East than is shame.
it is extremely difficult to change beliefs that are dear to the heart.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DakEcY7Z5GU.
The message is paramount. That’s why the Bible can be translated. If the inspiration were tied to words themselves as opposed to their message, then we could never translate the Bible, and if we could never translate it, how could it be a book for all people?”
If we are confident we know anything about
“If we are going to learn about Jesus’ life, we must turn to the gospels because they are the most likely to be accurate.”
Even science is inductive, relying on observations and best explanations, not always deductive conclusions.
To have to eat, to grow fatigued, and to sweat and spill blood, and to be finally nailed to a cross. I cannot believe this. God deserves infinitely more.
“If his heart was still pumping, what was the water? What the author of the gospel calls ‘water’ is either the serum after it has separated or it was fluid from around the heart. Either way, Jesus had to be dead in order for there to be ‘blood and water.’ ”
“The Greek word you’re translating as ‘gushed out’ is the same word for simply ‘coming out.’
John says explicitly that Jesus was dead. See? 19:33, ‘He was already dead.’
The very reason they stabbed him in the chest was to make sure he was dead.
“After the flogging, victims were nailed through their arms to a crossbeam. The nails would go right through the median nerve, causing extreme pain and incapacitating the hands. A seven-inch nail would then be driven through both feet, and the crucifixion victim would be made to hang from his arms, a position that makes it nearly impossible to breathe. He would have to use his little remaining energy to push against the nail in his feet so he could breathe
out. He could breathe in as he sagged back down, but he would have to push back up before breathing out again. When all his energy was drained and he could not push up any longer, he would die of asphyxiation.”
“Which is why they broke the legs of the robbers next to Jesus. Without their knees, they couldn’t breathe out, so they died.”
all they had to do was see if the victim stopped pushing up. But the guards developed ways to ensure the victims really were dead.
as in the case of Jesus, sometimes they would pierce the victim’s heart.”
But, according to Gary, Jesus’ resurrection also answered this question. It meant that the Christian message was true and that we could know we would be in heaven forever with God if we trusted Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
assess the historical case for Jesus’ death, his deity, and his resurrection.
Daniel 7
I recalled that Blomberg said Jesus’ response also referred to Psalm 110.
Psalm 110 and read the first verse: “The LORD says to my lord, ‘Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.’ ”
Daniel 7 spoke of a Son of Man that shared sovereignty in heaven with God, being worshiped by all men with a reverence due only to God. Psalm 110 spoke of another lord, someone who would sit on God’s throne alongside God and serve as His heir.
In Mark 14:62, Jesus claimed to be the divine Son
of Man and the sovereign heir of the Father’s throne. He was boldl...
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Jesus called himself the Son of Man more than eighty times in the four gospels; that he really used the term was undeniable.
Love covers a multitude of sins.
Tauheed: The Islamic doctrine of Allah’s absolute unity and self-reliance
Tauheed, Islam’s most fundamental principle, is antithetical to the Trinity.
Technically, a molecule with resonance is every one of its structures at every point in time, yet no single one of its structures at any point in time.”
One molecule of nitrate is all three resonance structures all the time and never just one of them.
The three are separate but all the same, and they are one. They are three in one.
That’s when it clicked: if there are things in this world that can be three in one, even incomprehens...
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Three what in one what? I looked it up in a book called The Forgotten Trinity by James White, and it all made more sense after I realized a triune entity was possible.
The doctrine of the Trinity teaches that God is three persons in one being.
The doctrine of the Trinity teaches that God is one being with three persons: Father, Son, and Spirit.
Being: The quality or essence that makes something what it is
Person: The quality or essence that makes someone who he is
The practice of inviting people to Islam
Soteriology: The doctrine or study of salvation
