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Old 11th June 2002, 09:24
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[i]Religious PREJUDICE may be illustrated from modern non-Christian Jews and from Islam. Both of these groups ASSUME that a God CANNOT have multiple centers of consciousness in Himself. In other words, "God MUST BE LIKE a HUMAN!" The veteran Old Testament reader will notice that this is plain and simple DIRECT VIOLATION of the TEN COMMANDMENTS (among other passages):
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Deut 5:8-9 (Exodus 20:4): You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God.
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What could be clearer than Isaiah 40:18:
To whom, then, will you compare God? What image will you compare him to?


and Isaiah 46.5: [b]

"To whom will you compare me or count me equal? To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?
To worship a God reduced to the structure of a human person is idolatry--the very thing the Muslim and non-Christian Jew accuses the Judeo-Christian of! Let us not mince words about this: if the Old Testament Scriptures confront us with some kind of plural-personality within the name YHWH, and if the Jew/Muslim explains away those scriptures and substitutes "a God made in the image of man" for the REAL God, then idolatry and blasphemy are the only appropriate descriptions for that. It is not faithfulness or covenant loyalty to YHWH to take an arbitrary and unfounded definition of oneness and let that man-made definition be the ultimate authority over Sacred Scriptures! That is not faithfulness--it is PREJUDICE and CONCEIT .
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