Ashraf Schneider – The God of Abraham – Part 1

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			these blessings and mercy be upon y'all. Welcome back to our page. In the video today we're going to
be exploring who God is and what the three major Abrahamic faiths believe God is like, and why?
Well, this video will be focusing on the inherent similarities between the God of the Jews, the God
of the Christians, and the God of the Muslims. The next video in this series will in turn, unpack
and investigate why the Trinitarian notion, which has become popular in contemporary Christianity
veers away from the strictly Unitarian traditions of Judaism and Islam, and even early Christianity.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves. First, let's meet God as described in the Torah, the Bible and
		

			the Koran. Just like the various branches of Christianity, for example, Episcopalian, charismatic,
Dutch Reformed, and so forth, there are various different branches or traditions within both Judaism
and even Islam. Would we need to remember at all times is that these deviations or manmade
inventions, distinctions drawn after the revelant revelations, and not decreed by God in any of the
three major Abrahamic faiths, it is not God who dictated that faith be practiced. According to one
of the following X number of streams, man came and segregated the broader religious community into
those who most thought like one another, and essentially form cliques. So it is our responsibility
		

			in seeking God to look beyond the manmade deviations at all levels and to return to the source text
to establish what the different factions can agree upon. And what is true, according to God,
untainted by the temptations and tendencies of man to want to categorize, organize, and draw
distinctions between what he perceives to be different one from another, where I'm going with this
is simple, though there are many ways or streams of practicing Judaism, for example, Hasidic
Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, conservative Judaism, and so forth. Though the different sects may differ
in other matters, the Jewish understanding of God as one is to quote Dr. Lawrence B. Brown,
		

			relatively concrete. Throughout Judaism, the oneness of God remains the primary attribute of the
Creator, followed by many others, including justice, love, mercy, on the science, omnipresent,
omnipotent, sovereignty, truth, wisdom, self existence, goodness, holiness, eternity, and the even
trickier concept of infinity. Furthermore, Jews consider God fundamentally incomprehensible, for
God's attributes transcend those of his creation. In other words, Jews believe that we have been
created as subservient and subordinate to the mighty creator, and can as a result, not comprehend
the true nature of God, for it surpasses the limits of our world the understanding, it is then our
		

			duty to stand in awe of God so much greater than ourselves, that he defies complete comprehension,
and experience within the confines of our physical world. A number of these same attributes carry
over to the other, especially early Christian concept or understanding of God. While early
Christians remained fundamentally Unitarian, as encouraged by Jesus Christ Himself, peace be upon
him. It was only in later years that the so called mysticism of the Trinity took root. And so
transfigured the popular conception of God in the Christian faith, trying to decipher the concept of
a God who is three, but one baffles the mind, especially when you consider that the three who are
		

			supposed to make up the one are fundamentally and characteristically incompatible with one another.
To use a simple example, if God is accepted by Jews, Christians, both early and contemporary, and
Muslims alike to be without beginning and without end. How could a mortal man be equal to all part
of an eternal God? If God is fundamentally immortal, he cannot also be mortal, Kenny. It's a logical
paradox. As in our previous series, Son of God, I find it best to look at what Jesus himself had to
say about his own identity, in this case, that he had no divinity of his own. If Jesus was part of
the Divine, or a partner in divinity, then his statement would be fundamentally untrue, would it
		

			not? So essentially, you're left with another logical paradox. If Jesus is part of a Triune God, he
must have his own claim to divinity. But if he is part of a triune, God, he must also be as God and
His wisdom are declared to be in the New Century Version translation of Jane chapter three, verse
17, fair and honest or more to the point, the wisdom that comes from heaven does not pretend to be
what it is not. So it
		

			Jesus is a part of God and his infinite wisdom, he cannot pretend to be what he is not. In other
words, if Jesus is part of a Triune God, he must be both truthful and divine. But according to the
man himself, he has no claim to divinity. Please see the screen for some examples.
		

			Which begs the question, Is Jesus honest? Or is the divine? And how can he be considered godly, if
events by his own statement, he cannot be both? This may seem confusing at first, and that's because
it is in order to accept that Jesus as part of the Triune God, one was blatantly defined the
assertion made in Titus chapter one, verse two, that God never lies, but we will further explore how
the concept of the Trinity came to be, and how it compares and contrasts with the beliefs of the
other Abrahamic faiths, and even its own practitioners beliefs in part two of this video series. For
now, suffice it to say that the Trinitarian concept of God flies in the face of the conception of
		

			God as one in the majority of Abrahamic faiths, that is to say, Judaism, and Islam. So who is God in
Islam, in his lung, God is He has power over all things. He encompasses all things in his knowledge,
the one to whom belongs whatever is in the heavens, and whatever is on the earth, for he is ever
more self sufficient and praiseworthy. God is thus fundamentally conceived of as all knowing, all
powerful, and self sufficient. anything or anyone who does not meet these three primary criteria can
thus be discounted from any claim to divinity, which makes sense, as we know God is without equal,
while Muslims thus accept and even celebrate Jesus, peace and blessings be upon him as a messenger
		

			of God. We do not believe that Jesus can be God, for the simple reason that he is not all knowing he
is not all powerful, and he was not self sufficient. Makes sense. Ultimately, then, the Jewish,
early Unitarian, Christian and Islamic conception of God have far more in common than contemporary
mainstream media would have you believe. However, if you'd still like to know more about how
contemporary Trinitarian Christianity compares and contrasts with the conception of God in Judaism,
and Islam, I encourage you to subscribe to our page and to our YouTube channel, and to check out
part two of this video series which will explore the history and paradoxical nature of the concept
		

			of the Trinity in more detail. Until then, as always, if you have any questions about any of the
content I've shared with you today, please feel free to contact me through our page, and I'll be
more than happy to share more additional resources with you. Until then, all the best blessings to
your family, Zack