The Confutation of Islam (Part 3)

Objection:  You Calvinists talk about justification by grace alone through faith alone.  In Islam, one must make himself worthy of one’s salvation.  Wouldn’t you rather be part of a religion that helps you find peace with God & thrive within God-given parameters? 

Answer:  We’ll call this the appeal to the human ego. The Muslim apologist is appealing to his or her target or target’s ego.  


Yes, but that religion isn’t Islam.  Islam on Earth teaches the gospel of works righteousness.   The Bible calls that a false gospel.   On the one hand, Islam acts as if it’s the one true faith tradition, and one of the objections to the Incarnation its spokesmen raise is that the concept of God “becoming human” offends the majesty & dignity of God.  On the other, the appeal to the human ego (sarx) turns Islam into one religion among many in the grand marketplace of ideas.   


Objection: God would never become man. The Bible teaches that Yeshua learned (Luke 2:52).   Therefore either God can learn, in which case God is not omniscient,  or Christian Theology is internally contradictory.    


Answer: This objection turns on a false idea of what the Incarnation entails.  In the Incarnation, God unites to Yeshua’s rational soul.  God did not substitute Himself for Yeshua’s soul.  In Christian theology (correctly understood) the hypostatic union acts as a bridge that allows a theandric entity to harmonize with both sides of its total ontology or for them to act independently of one another in a manner in which none of the attributes of both God & the person to whom God has united are added, diminished, or otherwise changed/amended.  


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