Muslim friendly or false teaching?

[Even_So]

I’m sure you’ve discussed this before, but Wycliffe has a Muslim “friendly” bible. Here is a bite from this link.

bzhogan.blogspot.com/2012/02/wycliffes-allah-moment-replacing-name.html

"Well, specifically, Wycliffe is catching heat for certain passages in their new Bible that replace ‘God the Father’ with Allah. Even Jesus as the Son of God is obscured in key passages where the full trinity is referred to, like in Matthew 28:19, which says:

“Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”

This new translation that Wycliffe is in the process of releasing, says:

“Cleanse them by water in the name of Allah, his Messiah and his Holy Spirit”

Is baptizing the same as cleansing? So the “is God the same as Allah” thread did not go on forever, i am asking here, maybe not asking but saying shouldn’t we be proclaiming Jesus Christ to the Muslims not just as the one and only Messiah, but as God, Lord, Master, etc., rather than just any generic messiah as Islam claims, thereby clearing that whole argument up? Maybe?

 

[Petaro]

I would not read this version as Allah is not our God. Our God is a God of mercy, compassion, and love. The Muslim God is a God of “justice”, retribution and punishment.

 

[TarkanAttila]

I don’t think you will ever produce a “Moslem-friendly” Bible. The Bible was made for Christians, first of all - it’s not the first thing someone who doesn’t know anything about Christianity should see (even though it usually is). For another thing, the Moslems have their own, the Koran. Why would they want ours? For a third, the Bible assumes the prophets were Jews. The Koran, they were Moslems. That’ll be rather muddy.

Fourth, at one point, their translation seems to dampen down the Trinitarian aspect of our faith, so crucial as it is. Somehow I suspect that will not work, because at the hear of it, Jesus is God. That’s only revealed in Jesus’ Resurrection - which Moslems also interpret differently.

 

[Tom_Baum]

I’m sure you’ve discussed this before, but Wycliffe has a Muslim “friendly” bible. Here is a bite from this link.

bzhogan.blogspot.com/2012/02/wycliffes-allah-moment-replacing-name.html

"Well, specifically, Wycliffe is catching heat for certain passages in their new Bible that replace ‘God the Father’ with Allah. Even Jesus as the Son of God is obscured in key passages where the full trinity is referred to, like in Matthew 28:19, which says:

“Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”

This new translation that Wycliffe is in the process of releasing, says:
"
“Cleanse them by water in the name of Allah, his Messiah and his Holy Spirit”

Is baptizing the same as cleansing? So the “is God the same as Allah” thread did not go on forever, i am asking here, maybe not asking but saying shouldn’t we be proclaiming Jesus Christ to the Muslims not just as the one and only Messiah, but as God, Lord, Master, etc., rather than just any generic messiah as Islam claims, thereby clearing that whole argument up? Maybe?

Baptizing" is very specific and it is a cleansing but it is not a physical cleansing.

“Cleanse them by water” could very well be looked at as a bath.

Concerning, "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”.

Jesus spoke of and taught us to think of God as Our Father, even so far as to think of God as Abba, meaning Dad or Daddy.

Jesus spoke of Himself as Son of God and Son of Man which seems to me to be God joining Himself with the human race.

And the “Holy Spirit” is spoken of as “The Holy Spirit” not my Holy Spirit, big difference.

This statement, “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” is speaking of the Trinity.

Concerning, "in the name of Allah, his Messiah and his Holy Spirit”.

“Allah” is Arabic and is a generic term for God just as God is English and is a generic term for God, nothing more and nothing less.

“His Messiah”, messiah is a term that simply means anointed by God and there were others in the bible that were anointed by God, some Jewish, some not Jewish, it simply means “anointed by God”.

“his Holy Spirit”, the “little”, so to speak, change between “his Holy Spirit” and “the Holy Spirit” is light years apart and changes the whole meaning.

The statement: “in the name of Allah, his Messiah and his Holy Spirit”, is not in the least “Trinitarian” in nature.

The two statements: “Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" and "“Cleanse them by water in the name of Allah, his Messiah and his Holy Spirit” are not even close to be saying the same thing and anyone trying to say they are, are either very mistaken or just plain lying.

 

[Vanez]

Wow! Muslim’s friendly Bible?

In Malaysia, Christians are being complained by Muslims for using the word Allah. Fyi we both Christians and Muslims called Allah, as it is also our language! Only we do not pronounce Allah as Awloh like Muslims And Arabic speaking people do. “Ya Tuhan, Allahku!” Just means,“ya, Lord, my God!”