The only right way - Vadim Platun
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In the Bible, God says of Jesus, "My servant the Branch.
Where is the disagreement?
In the Qur'an, Jesus is the Great Prophet, the Messenger, the Great Servant of Allah, the Word of Allah, and the Spirit from Him. In the Bible, He is the Spirit of God in the flesh in the image of God. I think there are common meanings here as well.
I should immediately point out that Jesus did not call Himself God in the Bible, neither did He call His mother Mary God. He called to "worship only the Lord God and serve Him alone." Jesus gave the first and greatest commandment: "The Lord our God, the Lord is one."
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was told by an angel: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the holy one who will be born will be called the Son of God." This is a Son of the Spirit, not of the flesh as we tend to understand.
The Bible also calls Jesus the Son of God with the same authority. What is meant is that God Himself acted and worked on earth through Jesus. Christ had a mission to keep those who believe in God from sin for their forgiveness and resurrection. It is said that only those who believe in Jesus' sacrifice to the Lord God for the forgiveness of sins for all who repent and believe will receive eternal life in Paradise.
There are many times in the Bible when Jesus stops people when they start to worship Him personally as God. He said, "No one is good but One, that is, God." Another thing is when people worshiped the Lord God through Jesus Christ.
"My Father is greater than I," that is what Jesus says, and everything He does is all by the will of God, not by Jesus Himself, and the power that is in Him is given by God. That's what the Bible says.
God Himself says about Jesus in the Gospel: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"; "My Beloved".
If someone does not like the word "son," this word is applied in the Bible not only to Jesus, but also to all believers and the favored, which proves once again that the meaning of the word "son" is not our ordinary one: not a son of the flesh, but a son of the Spirit, a person who belongs to the people of God. Jesus told the apostles that He would ascend "to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God". The Bible also says, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Also, the words "Father" and "Son" can be mistranslated or misinterpreted and convey the wrong meaning. For example, one can be a son by the flesh, or one can be a son by the spirit. Finally, in GENESIS (the first book of the Bible), at the creation of man, it says that God "breathed into his (Adam's) nostrils the breath of life."
In conclusion, not only Jesus but all those who are acceptable to God are sons of the Lord because the Holy Spirit is in them. This is confirmed by the examples of the above sayings.
It is also said that there are people of God who are predestined even before birth, that is, believing people. They are all endowed with the Spirit of God and are also called the sons of God in the Bible.
If the Bible calls all these people sons, what confuses those who think it is unacceptable to call Jesus the Son of the only God, after all, He proved by His deeds that they were accomplished by the power given from above, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
King David said in the PSALMS (one of the books of the Bible) that the Lord also called him a son.
Even the most important prayer in the Bible begins with the words "Our Father," indicating that all who believe and turn to God are children of God (not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit).
In the Gospel, Jesus commented on David's phrase about Him ("The Lord said to my Lord"): "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, 'You are gods'?" This law is the Law of Moses, the first books of the Bible, which are also recognized by Islam and Judaism. If the Almighty called those to whom the Word of God (the Bible) was given "gods," should the One whom the Lord sanctified by the power of the Holy Spirit and sent into the world (Jesus) be accused of blasphemy for saying, "I am the Son of God"?
"Though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know," says Jesus. And there is certainly logic in this because the miracles that Jesus did are certainly from God. Both the Bible and the Qur'an talk about these miracles. The Qur'an says, "We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear proofs and supported him with the Holy Spirit."
How can you quibble with the fact that the Bible calls Jesus "the Son"?
What about the fact that the Bible, back in the Torah, through Moses, calls Jesus a prophet, that all are brothers and sisters in faith, and that Jesus is the Teacher? Isn't that what the Holy Qur'an says? And that prophets are to be listened to and obeyed?
Jesus equates the word "son" with the word "servant" and says, "Servant does not know what his master is doing," but what the Lord is doing, no one knows in advance. So all are servants before the Lord, and we can say that the word "son" is the equal of the word "servant". The only difference is that only acceptable slaves who did righteousness