Muslims And Protestants?

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[quote name='Apotheoun' date='11 December 2009 - 04:44 PM' timestamp='1260546260' post='2018387']
These texts are only problematic if one posits the idea that the Bible stands alone as the sole source of a Christian's knowledge as to the nature of Christ, which is a proposition that was rejected by the Church Fathers. The Bible is just a book, albeit an inspired book, but like any written text is must be interpreted, and it is the dominical tradition of the Church (See Luke 24:44-49, Acts 8:30-31, and 2 Peter 1:20-21), which Christ gave to the Apostles, that empowers a man to read the scriptures rightly.

So - for example - the comments in John's Gospel about the Father being "greater" than the Son are understood in relation to two things: (1) the eternal [i]hypostatic[/i] generation of the Son from the Father, and (2) the incarnation of the Son. In the case of the first point the Son is "less" than the Father [i]hypostatically[/i], but only in the sense that the Son receives His [i]hypostasis[/i] eternally from the Father, who alone is the sole eternal cause ([i]aitia[/i]) within the Godhead. While the second point above, concerns the Son's being "less" than the Father after the assumption of human nature by the eternal Word.
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yes i understand what you are saying. Basically you tell me how you resolve the apparent conflict in the verses. An Unitarian would do it differently and a muslim even more differently. I am demonstrating Quran and Bible need not be mutually exclusive (when viewed from a muslim point of view)