nakedpreacher wrote:I like to ponder the wonder of the incarnation... The Creator who Called limitless galaxies into existence ex-nehilo with a word, became a helpless baby, the one who spun the milky way also spit up his mother's milk onto her shoulder, that the infinite embraced our infirmity.
It is the very thought of God becoming human that Muslims believe to be "blasphemous". The thought that God would have sex with a woman and that the child would also be God is incomprehensible. They cannot grasp non-sexual conception or a Triune God consisting of three persons but only one essence. They believe that the Trinity makes Christians polytheistic. (Ironically, most Muslims to not understand the origin of Allah (the Mood God) as the victorious god over a pantheon of other lesser gods, making him the one and only remaining god, but still originating out of a polytheistic cluster of "gods".)
That is why Christmas is so offensive to them. In their eyes, we are celebrating God's immoral sexual relationship with a mere human woman and the creation of another god besides Allah.
I have been pondering how to present the gospel to Muslims without first putting them on the offensive.
nakedpreacher wrote: If I start to get too much into the spirit of X-mas, I think of the wonder of Christmas and the pull of commercialism generally breaks.
Naked Preacher
AMEN