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.
Download the PDF, Part 1: Explaining the Biblical Term ‘Son(s) of God’ in Muslm Contexts:
Part 2: by Rick Brown
In part one, “Explaining the Biblical Term ‘Son(s) of God’ in Muslim Contexts,” we saw that the term ‘son(s) of God’ has a broad range of meanings. Experience shows that there is no single measure one can take to resolve this problem. It requires a two-pronged approach. Basically the two prongs are to explain the original term and and what it means and to translate it according to its original meaning or in a way like ‘spiritual son(s) of God’ that blocks the unintended meaning.
There is a long history of trying to explain ‘Son(s) of God’ to Muslims, and explanations have usually failed to overcome the entrenched meaning of the phrase. Luke did not “remove” ‘Son of God’; he simply translated the meaning of the original Hebrew phrase into Greek—in three different ways. When Western missionaries hear ‘Son of God’ explained or translated as ‘the Christ’, they sense a loss of content.
SENSE: The standard of commercial translation in the modern world, whether Scriptural or otherwise, is to give priority to expressing the meaning of a passage rather than mimicking its linguistic form in the source language. So the normal approach to translating idiomatic phrases is to translate them according to their original contextual meaning. Sense translation, is the normal way of translating texts between languages. The drawbacks are (1) everyone may not agree on the intended sense of the phrase and (2) sometimes more than one sense is being evoked, especially in the case of metaphors. Is ‘meaning-based’ translation the answer?
For a comprehensive look at this, please download the following PDF: Brown2_SOG.pdf
Rick Brown is a Bible scholar and mission strategist. He has been involved in outreach tot he Muslim world since 1977.
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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.
What do you know about GOD? isn’t your god a man?
What do you know about Allah whom you call God? Who is not the God of Abraham.
It was Allah the Moon God who was worshipped BEFORE mohammad was born.
It was Mohammad’s father whose name was ABD-ALLAH meaning servant of allah the MOON God of pre-islamic days, even BEFORE mohammad was born.
It was Mohammads father the care taker of the KAABA inside which were 360 idols(read Hadiths) and when mohammad was born mohammads grandfather OFFERED mohammad to Allah the Moon.
Whether you accept it or not, and believe it or not, will not change the TRUTH, because PRE-ISLAMIC history is not on your side.
Worship Adam (born of MUD) v/s Worship the Emannual (born by GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT POWER).
Do you know that ALL MUSLIM ANGELS are PROSTRATING TO MUSLIM ADAM in MUSLIM HEAVEN at the command of MUSLIM ALLAH?
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Quranic passages make note of the origins of Satan, his nature,
and conflict with Adam and Allah.
(2:34, 7:11-12, 15:30-33, 17:61, 18:50, 20:116, 38:71-76.) 7:11-12 is used here:
“We said to the Angels, ‘PROSTRATE yourselves before ADAM.’
Muslim God Allah tells Muslims Angels to prostrate before Muslim Adam.
They ALL prostrated themselves except Satan, who refused to prostrate himself.
All Muslim Angels prostrated before Muslim Adam, except Muslim Satan.
‘Why did you not prostrate yourself when I commanded you?’
Muslim god allah asked Muslim Satan Why he did not prostrate before Muslim Adam at Muslim Gods command.
He asked. ‘I am nobler than he,’ he replied. ‘You created me of fire, but you created him of clay.’
If Allah the God of muslims told Angels & Devils to PROSTRATE to MAN made of clay(Adam) who disobeyed and thrown out of paradise,
and if Allah is the same God as muslims believe (the god of Abraham as in the old testament) and the choirs of angels ANNOUNCED birth of Jesus(Jesus means GOD SAVES) to the WHOLE world, EXACTLY as prophesised by Isaiah who said the Emannuel(meaning GOD WITH US) will be born, that he would have to suffer and die, and other prophets prophesized his coming, and if from his birth until his ascension we know that those who recognized him worshiped him as the Holy One of God, the Messiah, the Saviour, Prophet, the King, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, whose face shown as dazzling white, is it than the same devil falsely accusing of worshiping Jesus the Christ, The Word of God and The Spirit of God, who is honored in THIS world and the NEXT and Who will judge mankind? And fight the devil?