Why do Christian’s never emphasize the oneness of God? Even in reciting the Creed, Christians rush over this part of it. “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, and…” Jews are way more based about this. The Shema simply states “The Lord our God: the Lord is one.” And this is upstream from their entire spirituality, Judaism is said to all flow from this one supreme fact.
>>17435657God is incarnate upon the earth, all parts united into one within his kingdom of heaven. Jews still worship a sky ghost and hope following rules will keep them alive until they're crowned king of the earth, but they missed the boat.
>>17435663Is the unity and pure integrity of the infinite singularity not much solace to you?
>>17435710God sacrificed his perfection so that all of his people, including the Jews, would be rejoined to him as one body. That was the price to redeem the fall.
>>17435719You misunderstand. I’m a Christian. I’m not defending Judaism, I’m defending its emphasis on the oneness of God as the central fact as a spiritual practice.
>>17435731Even jews do not deny the spirit, because to do so would be denying themselves and forsaking the crown they seek. The oneness you describe existed before the fall, and persisted until the resurrection of the body of God upon the earth.
>>17435741>The oneness you describe existed before the fall, and shattered with the fall, and persisted in that divided state until the resurrection of the body of God upon the earth.*clarified
>>17435741Sorry, I believe in one unchanging God.
>>17435744Well you are right, God is unchanging, but that is not contrary to what I have told you.
>>17435657>And this is upstream from their entire spirituality, Judaism is said to all flow from this one supreme fact.And this point is exactly what disproves the notion that strict, radical, exclusive monotheism is the most important belief from which all others flow out of, because muslims say the EXACT same claim, that everything in islam comes from Tawhid, yet islam and judaism are very different and contradict each other on every issue. Monotheism is a scam: it makes you believe in an utter abstraction completely removed from the world, and because it's completely separate from it, it can will and order virtually anything, doesn't have to make sense because the world will always be "lower" than God.
>>17435779The rabbis have blessed the monotheism of Muslims as kosher.
>>17435930No they haven't.
>>17435935Yes they have. To wit, the Talmud predates Islam and therefore doesn’t directly address it. However, later Jewish rabbinic authorities have generally recognized Islamic monotheism as valid, viewing it as a belief in the same singular God worshiped in Judaism. Prominent Jewish thinkers, like Maimonides, emphasized that Islam is not considered idolatrous since it upholds the unity of God.
>>17435657In my language, the 'one' in that sentence indeed means 'the only'.This is a problem with the English language, not Christianity.
>>17435960> later Jewish rabbinic authorities have generally recognized Islamic monotheism as valid, viewing it as a belief in the same singular God worshiped in Judaism. Prominent Jewish thinkers, like Maimonides, emphasized that Islam is not considered idolatrous since it upholds the unity of God.It's way more complex. Most rabbis before Maimonides said the rites of Hajj came from paganism. Maimonides doesn't say muslims worship the same God as them, he only said they're not idol worshippers. And he certainly had no freedom to write his full thoughts about it. Many rabbis also said (rightfully) that muslims' veneration of Muhammad borders on worship.
>>17435657because there's no point to it
>>17436354There’s no point to the central tenet of monotheism…lol
