Sublime

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The date of these documents, called J, E, D, and P, has been the subject of much debate in recent biblical scholarship. The oldest document is most likely J, which was given this name since in Genesis it typically uses the four-letter name of God, YHWH (rT1r'…

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Islam was, above all, the strictest of monotheisms, reserving all devotion for God alone, hostile to any hint of polytheism or idolatry and censorious of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.

The vast empire of Alexander fell apart upon his death, and was divided among his generals. Israel had the great misfortune of falling on the border between the Ptolemies, who ruled from…

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For a robust, and complicated, treatment of various difficult doctrines centered around the incarnation, see Gerald O’Collins, Incarnation. O’Collins,

Given the ever-expanding confusion among different groups, the “voice” of the god, which used to speak to the Homeric heroes, and which Moses and Hammurabi still heard distinctly, became ever more remote and eventually was heard only by the priestesses at Delphi, Mohammed, or Catholic saints.

In another formulation from Tanner: “Jesus therefore mediates divinity and humanity because he unites both and not because he is something in between”

We caused Jesus, son of Mary to follow in their footsteps, fulfilling what had been revealed before him in the Torah. We gave him the Gospel, which contained guidance and light, fulfilling what was revealed before it in the Torah: a guide and an admonition to the God-fearing.