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CONGRUITIES AND INCONGRUITIES BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN |
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God is One and the sons of God
GOD IS ONE
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: (Deuteronomy 6/4)
« Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.» (Deuteronomy 4/35)
In the Od Testament the concept of 'One God' often recurs. « See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.» (Deuteronomy 2/39)
THE SONS OF GOD
« Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.» (Deuteronomy 13/1-2)« For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. » (Deuteronomy 14/1-2) « Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?» (Deuteronomy 32/6) « And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. »(Deuteronomy 32/09)« They have corrupted themselves, they are no longer his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. »(Deuteronomy 32/5)
In the old Testament we often encounter the Father-Son concept; the 'Father' is evidently God, the Creator of everything, whereas the 'Son' is not the son in biological terms; it refers to the state of the person, who, firmly believing in Him, has earned His affection and grace. The Israelites, who were the chosen people by God's grace, under the leadership of Moses, had been rescued from servitude and had to wander in the deserts for forty years. Having corrupted their ways, they had thus been punished and earned the displeasure of God; so that they were not the children of God any longer.
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