Comments on: God is love http://theriveroflife.com/2006/09/20/god-is-love/ To the glory of God and the Lord Jesus Christ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:11:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: dusakabin http://theriveroflife.com/2006/09/20/god-is-love/#comment-80 dusakabin Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:24:30 +0000 http://theriveroflife.com/2006/09/20/god-is-love/#comment-80 Simply outstanding ^_^! I like posts like that. Your blog is added to my favorites ;-). Continue writing. Simply outstanding ^_^! I like posts like that. Your blog is added to my favorites ;-). Continue writing.

]]> By: Andrew Chapman http://theriveroflife.com/2006/09/20/god-is-love/#comment-31 Andrew Chapman Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:40:36 +0000 http://theriveroflife.com/2006/09/20/god-is-love/#comment-31 I read the fifth chapter of Pelikan's book which you recommended and was pleased to learn that the Koran teaches that Jesus is to be called Logos and Spirit. The Christian apologists argued that if Jesus were not eternal then God would have had neither Logos nor Spirit before he created them. I can see that this could be effective in debating with Islam. Your idea that he was elevating the Logos in order to elevate Christ as God is plausible to me, although without it being made explicit, it is hard to know. The burden of my post was for the assembled professors of the University of Regensburg many of whom need a Saviour to save them from damnation. Every opportunity must be taken to save the lost and this seems to me to have been an opportunity missed. I read the fifth chapter of Pelikan’s book which you recommended and was pleased to learn that the Koran teaches that Jesus is to be called Logos and Spirit. The Christian apologists argued that if Jesus were not eternal then God would have had neither Logos nor Spirit before he created them. I can see that this could be effective in debating with Islam. Your idea that he was elevating the Logos in order to elevate Christ as God is plausible to me, although without it being made explicit, it is hard to know.

The burden of my post was for the assembled professors of the University of Regensburg many of whom need a Saviour to save them from damnation. Every opportunity must be taken to save the lost and this seems to me to have been an opportunity missed.

]]> By: swede http://theriveroflife.com/2006/09/20/god-is-love/#comment-26 swede Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:14:13 +0000 http://theriveroflife.com/2006/09/20/god-is-love/#comment-26 There is a portion of J. Pelikan's second volume in his church history series (this colume dealing with the eastern church) were the debates Christians had to do with Jews, then dualists, and finally Moslems is examined quite well in not too great a space. Good reading. I refer to this because, in debating Islam, it was freqently necessary to *first deal with the matter of the Trinity. Perhaps that is what he was doing there. Truly ONLY a Christ who is God can save. So, he was saying that the Logos and Spirit -- both of whom Islam believe in...but not as God -- ARE GOD. Btw, on part of one debate was that while Moslems believe in the Koran that came down from heaven the ALSO belive that there are book-copies of the Koran too. Images of the first. This is obviously a pretty good arguement for One God in Three Persons -- The Logos not being an "associate deity" as Moslems accused Christians of believing in. fwiw. There is a portion of J. Pelikan’s second volume in his church history series (this colume dealing with the eastern church) were the debates Christians had to do with Jews, then dualists, and finally Moslems is examined quite well in not too great a space. Good reading. I refer to this because, in debating Islam, it was freqently necessary to *first deal with the matter of the Trinity. Perhaps that is what he was doing there. Truly ONLY a Christ who is God can save. So, he was saying that the Logos and Spirit — both of whom Islam believe in…but not as God — ARE GOD. Btw, on part of one debate was that while Moslems believe in the Koran that came down from heaven the ALSO belive that there are book-copies of the Koran too. Images of the first. This is obviously a pretty good arguement for One God in Three Persons — The Logos not being an “associate deity” as Moslems accused Christians of believing in.

fwiw.

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