St.Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church - Sermon for August 29, 2021

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In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. 1. Say, “He is God, the One. 2. God, the Absolute. 3. He begets not, nor was He begotten. 4. And there is nothing comparable to Him.” This is a clear statement by God describing Himself to humanity without any room for confusion. God is One and is exalted above everything He creates. This chapter of the Quran is about the oneness of God. The concept of God has been presented here in its purest form, ridding it of all polluting associations which people of every age have brought to it. There is no plurality of gods. There is only one God. All are dependent upon Him, but He is not dependent on anybody. He Himself has power over everything. He is far above being the progeny of anybody or having any offspring. He is such a unique being that there is nobody like Him or equal to Him in any manner whatsoever. The doctrine of God’s pure unity, or The Divine oneness, is clearly stated here: God is not many , He is only One. Everyone is in need of Him ,but He is not in need of anyone. He reigns over all things of the heavens and the earth. Unlike human beings , He has no son or father. He is eternal ,without beginning or end, and is thus a Unique Being who has no equal. This Chapter has been called the essence of the Quran. The prophet Muhammad, Peace Be Upon Him, once described this Chapter as “ equivalent to one-third of the whole Quran ”{ Bukhari and Muslim } Muslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God, Who has no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped but Him alone. He is the true God, and every other deity is false. He has the most magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes. No one shares His divinity, nor His attributes. No one has the right to be invoked, supplicated, prayed to, or shown any act of worship, but God alone. God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the Sovereign, and the Sustainer of everything in the whole universe. He manages all affairs. He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His creatures depend on Him for all that they need. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, and the All-Knowing. In a perfect manner, His knowledge encompasses all things, the open and the secret, and the public and the private. He knows what has happened, what will happen, and how it will happen. No affair occurs in the whole world except by His will. Whatever He wills is, and whatever He does not will is not and will never be. His will is above the will of all the creatures. He has power over all things, and He is able to do everything. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the Most Beneficent. In one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad , we are told that God is more merciful to His creatures than a mother to her child. God is far removed from injustice and tyranny. He is All-Wise in all of His actions and decrees. If someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God directly without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him or her.

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A Christian priest or a Christian obliged to answer the question of a sinner or a saint--either way----answer: God is not a trinity: God is omnipotent and omniscient and Christ is not: Matt 20: 23 (Father not Son is Omnipotent) Matt 24: 36 (Father not Son is Omniscient)

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Christ took on human flesh including its ignorance.

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@@jacob-de4zi God 's unchanging nature is absolute, perfect, strict, meaning He does not change at all, as He is not a creature. If God is one, then He cannot be divided, if you say He is composed of 3 persons and the person acting as Father knows that Day and the person acting as Son does not, God would have been partly ignorant, not knowing all things, which contradicts the Oneness of God and the perfect, absolute integrity of His omniscience. In other words, how can one person at once know all things and not know all things? Besides you say that the Holy spirit is also God and those 3 persons are coequal and we know the Holy Spirit did not become incarnate. Jesus said no one knows that hour except the Father who alone is God, excluding the Holy Spirit from omniscience as well.

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@@MarioHernandez-wd6mp the Bible says Jesus is God. so are you a Christian or not?