If you really meditate on how I explained God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit…you might understand that we are worshipping one God. Think of water ice and steam…The three are the same substance under different forms
Just so you understand, we don’t have idols of anything in our churches. We do have statues and pictures of Mary, Jesus, and the saints. We pray before these statues and pictures but not to them. We pray to God or if it is a prayer to Mary or one of the other saints it is to ask them to pray to God for us. Hope this clears up any misunderstanding you may have had.
A very good analogy. Love your signature by the way.
I didn’t disagree with you. All I did was break it down for you. For example, there is no word for terror in Arabic. Yet terror is widely used amongst Muslims, because this is the best word they could find for a word. It’s that the word has the same exact meaning as the translated word that it seems simular to. It’s just the best word for it. If you speak more than one language no matter what these languages are, you’ll understand what I am saying. You have Arab speaking Christians who uses the word Allah to refer to God alone. I don’t do what any tewrrorists do, whether Islamic, Jew, Hindu, Christian or who ever. So we are seeing eye to eye.
I’ve long meditated on that. Water, Ice and Steam are all the same. Different forms. In Islam God is ONE! Absolute ONE! No separate forms.
My Brother, people talk from their own experiences. Thus I am talking from mine. Every Catholic church I have stepped foot in, there where murals of the images that are suppose to be Jesus and his mom, peace be on them both. So I am talking from my experience. And I have been to many Catholic ceremonies.
Well I have to say that it is indiputable.
With the different understanding of your God=Master, and the God of all creation=Father, … perhaps the word for terror is or could be a version of submit. Their goal is the same - the spread of Islam to all, and the conversion/submission of all non-Muslims.
I think the better term here is “aspect”, not “form”. God appears to Man in the three Aspects that satisfy Man’s needs: as the Father/King for Man to serve and worship; as the Son/Savior to save Man from sin; and as the Spirit/Convictor/Teacher to teach us God’s Will.
RC, using “aspect” implies that there could be more than three and that these “aspects” simply are manifestations of a singularity that appears in various forms, rather like pantheism. That would be the heresy of Modalism (aka “Sabellianism”).
As StMarkEofE said… You worship a different God. They can’t be one since ours hass three persons in one, something Allah is not. As you said… No separate forms. Agree to disagree?
As anyone who reads my posts will know, I am no appologist for Islam but the Jews don’t believe in the Trinity either and I don’t think anyone here would argue that they worship a different God. As much as I would like to believe Muslims worship a different God, Popes JP II and Benedict XVI have said Islam worships the same God that we do. In my mind that settles it unless some Islamic appologist can show me that they don’t.
Actually Allah is the general name for God.
Abdullāh", which translates "servant of Allāh". "Abdullāh” is still used for names of Muslim and non-Muslims (e.g. Christians also used the word, as testified by the Zabad inscription). “Abdullāh” was also the name of the father of Maimon, whose son Moses is the Jewish principal Rabbi commonly known in English as Maimonides. Maimonides himself wrote his works mostly in Arabic on which his name appear as “Mussa bin Maimun ibn Abdullah al-Kurtubi موسى بن ميمون بن عبد الله القرطبي .”I worship Jesus.
This is the definition of a person: dictionary.reference.com/browse/person
You mean you follow Jesus? Am I correct? If you follow Jesus, know that Jesus did not worship himself.I worship Jesus.