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Belief in the Day of Judgment and life after death. The best reward for performing good deeds is getting closer to God. On the other hand, because Yahweh is by nature a triune unity his attributes stem from his nature.
The eternal relationship within the Trinity promotes love within the Godhead and extends to his creation. Also, since his attributes are based on his unchanging nature rather than his powerful will, all his attributes are equal and promote trustworthiness rather than capriciousness.
This means that believers can know God and be sure of his attributes. Second, Christians understand the nature of God to be triune Father, Son and Holy Spirit , which is the only way that Jesus Christ, as the second person of the Trinity, could die on the cross to pay for our sins. If Jesus were not God himself, then his death on the cross would be meaningless.
However, Muslims deny that Jesus died on the cross and they reject the belief in his resurrection from the dead. Only a triune God, defined as one essence and three persons, could become incarnate and still remain God of the universe, and yet this is the God that Muslims reject.
For them, Jesus cannot be God nor can God be a Father, for he cannot have a son. But wait a minute, some will say. This semantic [shibboleth] strangulation can be cleared up if we remember that words have both a denotative and a connotative meaning. Some will reply that while there are competing interpretations of the one Jesus, God and Allah have different origins. But the argument that Allah cannot be God because he was originally part of a polytheistic religious system ignores the origins of Jewish monotheism and its Christian and Islamic derivatives.
Biblical writers identified the Canaanite high god El with their own god even though he originally presided over a large pantheon. The closely related plural form elohim is used more often in the Bible, but both derive from the same Semitic root as Allah. El and elohim , the New Testament theos hence theology , the Latin deus hence deism , and the pre-Christian, Germanic god can all refer both to the Judeo-Christian god and other supernatural beings.
So Jewish, Christian, and Islamic understandings of the divinity originated in polytheistic contexts. Just like traditional Jews and Christians, however, Muslims believe that the religion of the first humans, Adam and Eve, was monotheistic. Because it was corrupted into polytheism, Allah sent prophets who all taught that there is only one god. Islam took over from Judaism the notion that Abraham in particular was the one who re discovered monotheism and rejected idolatry.
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