Snowber
Active Member
Common sense is subjective.
Modern Colloquial Arabic has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the extinct written Arabic of the Koran, brother.
اتخذوا أحبارهم ورهبنهم أربابا من دون الله
والمسيح ابن مريم وما أمروا إلا ليعبدوا إلها
وحدا لا إله إلا هو سبحنه عما يشركون
Ittakhathoo ahbarahum waruhbanahum arbaban min dooni Allahi waalmaseeha ibna maryama wama omiroo illa liyaAAbudoo ilahan wahidan la ilaha illa huwa subhanahu AAamma yushrikoona
9.31 They have taken their learned persons and their monks (as) lords from superior (to) allah and The Messiah, Mary's Son; and they commanded not except that they may worship one god, no god except He, glory be to Him from what they associate partners.
Observe that allah is included along with The Messiah, Jesus Christ, via the copulative conjunction wa, as being part and parcel of the prepositional phrase initiating with min (from).
Further, although "allah" and Jesus are listed separately, they are treated as ONE...via the singular "huwa" (him)...
This is the same exact method as used in the Holy Bible in many locations that proclaim the divinity of Jesus Christ...and, as such, the authors of the Koran have also copied this over into their opus.
The difference being that they have attempted to raise the pagan Arab god "allah" up to the Biblical deity status of Jesus Christ.
You will see the modern English translators deceitfully butchering this text by inserting all sorts of add-on-words in parenthesis in order to make this ayah conform to the Islamic paradigm.
Fact of the matter is that this ayah proclaims Jesus Christ as God Almighty.
Dear Bowman,
Even if we do not use modern Arabic, even in the possible definitions you presented, "Ten" was the first of them.
9:31 talks about religious leaders setup as idols "and the Messiah, SON OF MARY". GOD knew that people would claim that Jesus was the SON OF GOD, again, this is why GOD almost always uses "son of Mary" following Jesus. Not son of GOD. Again, "common sense" tells us that if GOD wanted us to believe Jesus was GOD, He would not hide it, NEITHER IN THE BIBLE OR THE QU'RAN.
It is a fact that it takes a lot of innovation to claim the Jesus was GOD Almighty. In fact, Jesus never claimed to be GOD and never will:
[5:116] GOD will say, "O Jesus, son of Mary,* did you say to the people, `Make me and my mother idols beside GOD?' " He will say, "Be You glorified. I could not utter what was not right. Had I said it, You already would have known it. You know my thoughts, and I do not know Your thoughts. You know all the secrets.
So no, it is not a fact that the verse you mentioned claims Jesus is GOD.
"Huwa" or "Him" refers to GOD, not Jesus.
Is it not time to stop playing games? If you truly believe the Bible says Jesus is GOD, then I invite you to a one to one debate/discussion on this matter.
Peace.