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| Seminar Islam & Bible |
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| Zara |
| 02/28/01 at 10:46:27 |
| Salaams :-) Fwd msg From: BR. SAIED REZA AMELI RENANI Islam and the Bible ***************** A two-day Seminar 3rd and 4th of March 2001 15: 30 to 17: 30 Organized by Islamic Centre of England Venue: ICEL 140 Maida Vale London W9 1QB Tel. 020 7604 3777 Nearest Tubes: Kilburn Park or Maida Vale Saturday 3rd of March 2001 15:30 to 17:30 First Lecture: Dr. A. Haider The One True God of the Bible A selection of the major texts of the Bible referring to the oneness of God will be examined on the basis of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. The viewpoint will be to determine how well these texts support the belief in one God, as opposed to other belief systems which have been supported by reference to the Bible. The basic issues covered are: 1) whether there is a single, consistent concept of God expressed in the Bible, 2) whether the Bible teaches the unity of God or a Trinity, and 3) whether the Biblical concept of God differs from that of Islam in preserving anthropomorphic features. The major obstacles for believing that the Bible teaches an Islamic concept of God are mentioned briefly and dealt with. Although, the lecture is presented by a scholar of comparative religion, the methodology is not specifically academic. The academic issues of textual criticism and sources will not be noted. Rather, the study accepts the Bible as the document used by the historical religious tradition of Christianity, and the purpose is to examine the text to see what it, as a Christian document, actually indicates the authors and eventual editors to have believed about the vital issue of who and what God is. Second Lecture: M.S. Bahmanpour The Torah in the Qur'an The prophet of Islam regarded himself as the culmination of a long chain of prophets who all taught the same thing. He did not regard himself as 'a prodigy among Apostle's' (46/9) nor his Book as the only book of guidance revealed by the Lord. This being the case, it is quite obvious that the previous Books of God would have been mentioned in the Qur'an. In fact not only such a mention is made, but also some contents of those Books are quoted in passing. However among all these Books the Torah, the Injeel and their teachings are treated in an exceptional manner. This lecture explores the way in which the Torah is treated in the Qur'an. It tries to approach the subject from three different angles, namely, the contents of the Torah according to the Qur'an, the way its teachings were received by the Jews, and finally the alterations that according to the Qur'an were made in it later on. The method used in the discussion would be mainly a content analysis of verses of the Qur'an. Sunday 4th of March 2001 15:30 to 17:30 First Lecture: Dr. A. Haider Does the Bible Teach that Jesus (AS) is God? In this lecture all of the major Biblical texts used by Christians as proof texts for the deity of Jesus (AS) are examined. Each of them is put in its context, and examined on the basis of the original languages to see whether they actually teach what Christians purport. Most of the problems can be seen as translation issues of passages, which are linguistically ambiguous. They only prove that Jesus (AS) is God when the translator comes to them with that bias. The original passages show no such thing at all. Finally, the issue of how to understand the expression Son of God, which does occur, though rarely in the Bible, is dealt with. This lecture does not follow academic methodology. Rather, it takes the popular Christian proof-text method, which is used in all of the historical Protestant symbols of faith, and turns it back on the issue of the deity of Jesus (AS). The scholarly questions of source criticism are not dealt with. Rather, the lecture is based on the majority text, which represents the Bible used by Christianity through most of its history and which is more prejudicial to the lecturer's premise than the oldest manuscripts. Both lectures are easily followed by lay Christians and Muslims alike. Second Lecture: M. S. Bahmanpur The Injeel in the Qur'an It is frequently stated in the Qur'an that Jesus Christ was given a Book named Injeel. This concept goes very smoothly with the Muslim belief in the Christ as one of the Messengers of God endued with firmness. However it is totally different a Book from what we have in hand as The New Testament, which is comparable to a sira book written on the life and times of the Prophet of Islam. This lecture examines the concept of Injeel as described in the Qur'an and tries to shed some light on its contents. It further picks some examples from the New Testament to compare them with the teachings of the Qur'an and what it quotes from the Injeel. It follows the same method as in the first lecture. Wasalaam Zara |
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