From the perspective of the Torah as I understand it, only God is lord of the Sabbath. . . So I say to the disciple, is it really so that your master, the son of man, is lord of the Sabbath? Then - so I asked before, so I ask again - is your master God? [emphasis mine]1
Allah forgiveth not (The sin of) joining other gods with Him; but He forgiveth whom He pleaseth other sins than this: one who joins other gods with Allah, Hath strayed far, far away (from the right).2
It is also true that the doctrine of the Trinity is not a product of deductive logic or philosophical reasoning. The mind of man would have never conceived of such a doctrine. . . . “No man can fully explain the Trinity, though in every age scholars have propounded theories and advanced hypotheses to explore this mysterious Biblical teaching. But despite the worthy efforts of these scholars, the Trinity is still largely incomprehensible to the mind of man. Perhaps the chief reason for this is that the Trinity is a-logical, or beyond logic. It, therefore, cannot be made subject to human reason or logic. Because of this, opponents of the doctrine argue that the idea of the Trinity must be rejected as untenable. Such thinking, however, makes man's corrupted human reason the sole criterion for determining the truth of divine revelation.” [Walter Martin, Essential Christianity (Santa Anna: Vision House, 1975), 21] cited in [Steve Lewis, The Doctrine of the Trinity - Part 1]3
With regard to the Trinity, Shedd quotes from such a sermon by an otherwise unidentified Dr. South: “as he that denies this fundamental article of the Christian religion may lose his soul, so he that much strives to understand it may lose his wits.” [William D Barrick, Inspiration and the Trinity]4
Moberly, . . . declares that “The tensions between time and eternity within trinitarian understanding are part of the mystery of God, where the theologian's task is not to dissolve the tensions but to depict them faithfully. [William D Barrick, Inspiration and the Trinity]5
All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.6
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.7
1. Sun/stars existed before earth; 2. Sun is earth's first light; 3. First life = marine organisms; 4. Reptiles predate birds; 5. Land mammals predate whales; 6. Disease/death precede man.9
1. Earth created before sun/stars; 2. Light on earth before sun; 3. First life = land plants; 4. Birds predate land reptiles; 5. Whales predate land mammals; 6. Disease/death result from man's sin.10
But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.11"
In the final chapter of the first edition of Origin (1859), Darwin wrote: I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form into which life was first breathed. That is hardly an endorsement of the spontaneous origin of life. . . . he inserted this final sentence into every subsequent edition of Origin: There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. It is clear that Darwin believed in unguided evolution, but it is not clear that he believed in chemical evolution. . . . Then, in 1871 (the year he published The Descent of Man, in which he clearly spells out man’s evolutionary relation to lower life forms for the first time), he dived headlong into the controversy: . . . if (and Oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc., present, that a proteine [sic] compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes . . . Thus, even Darwin, father of modern evolutionary theory, halted between two opinions on the most important topic of all—how did life begin? [Jonathan Sarfati, The Origin of Life]12
Endnotes:
1. | Ref-0137, 87-88. |
2. | Ref-0136, Surah 4:116 |
3. | Ref-0785, Volume 12 Num. 35 March 2008, 31:48, p. 31 |
4. | Ref-0164, 24/2 (Fall 2013), 179-197, p. 179 |
5. | Ref-0164, 24/2 (Fall 2013), 179-197, p. 179 |
6. | NKJV, John 1:3 |
7. | NKJV, Col. 1:15-18 |
8. | Ref-0618, #1147 |
9. | Ref-0232, 141 |
10. | Ref-0232, 141 |
11. | 2Pe. 3:8, NKJV |
12. | Ref-1370, loc. 1903-1921 |
Sources:
NKJV | Unless indicated otherwise, all Scripture references are from the New King James Version, copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. |
Ref-0136 | Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Meaning Of The Holy Qur'an (MD: Amana Publications, 2001). |
Ref-0137 | Jacob Neusner, A Rabbi Talks With Jesus (Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993). |
Ref-0164 | Richard L. Mayhue, ed., The Master's Seminary Journal (Sun Valley, CA: Master's Seminary). [www.mastersem.edu]. |
Ref-0232 | Jonathan Sarfati, Refuting Compromise (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2004). ISBN:0-89051-411-9f. |
Ref-0618 | James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages With Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament), electronic ed. (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997). |
Ref-0785 | Journal of Dispensational Theology, Fort Worth, TX: Tyndale Theological Seminary. [www.tyndale.edu]. |
Ref-1370 | Robert Carter, ed., Evolution's Achilles' Heels (Powder Springs, GA: Creation Ministries International, 2014). ISBN:978-1-921643-82-8g. |