Explaining the Biblical Term ‘Son(s) of God’ in Muslm Contexts
Sons of God article
Seekers and believers from Muslim backgrounds regularly single out the term ‘Son of God’ as the biggest obstacle to reading the Gospel. Worse yet, many Muslims are so frightened of this term that they refuse to read or listen to any text that asserts it.
Paul rarely uses ’son of God’, and never in high Christological passages.
Worse yet, many Muslims are so frightened of this term that they refuse to read or listen to any text that asserts it.
It is not our fault, of course, if people stumble over the truth, but if they stumble because of our stubbornness …
The fact that Jesus performs the functions and prerogatives of God seems to pass over the heads of many Western readers, but it is not lost on Muslim readers.
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Many Muslims are angry about a Dec. 31 High Court decision overturning a government ban on Roman Catholics’ using “Allah” to refer to their God in the Malay-language edition of their main newspaper, the Herald.
The ruling also applies to the ban’s broader applications such as Malay-language Bibles, 10,000 copies of which were recently seized by authorities because they translated God as Allah. The government has appealed the verdict.
SO ALLAH IS NOT GOD.