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So why should the monotheistic religions, which began with God's covenant with Abraham, the first true pleaser (who unswervingly did God's will), not rely on this common ground, which is much greater than that which prevents them from finding common points?

There is much debate and disagreement among religions about the semantic meaning of certain words. For example, what the Bible or the Qur'an calls Jesus. "Prophet" in the Qur'an, "Lord" in the Gospel. Is this what we should emphasize? It is not the words that are important, but the meaning given to them, which is always the same, but defined differently depending on what is written. But instead of focusing on common meanings that do not cause disputes and rejection in different religions (and such meanings are most likely to be true), the opposite happens. Most people look only for differences and reasons to question and reject one religion or another, not realizing that all Abrahamic religions are branches of the same tree.

Due to translations and multiple rewrites of the Holy Books, the meaning of the same word can be lost. After all, Jesus could have been called "Lord" as a person, which could have been spelled "the Lord" by the translator's hundredth author. But Jesus could have been called "the Lord," and thus God Almighty could have been addressed through Him. People appealed to God through prophets and messengers.

Should this bother the believer? It doesn't matter — Lord, son, slave, or prophet — the laws don't change for people because the laws and statutes of the Scriptures come from the Beginningless Creator Himself.

The main source of disagreement is over the Trinity and the person of Jesus Christ.

The Qur'an says, "Associate none with Allah" and "He is far above having a son!

In the Bible, God says of Jesus, "My servant the Branch.

Where is the disagreement?

In the Qur'an, Jesus is the Great Prophet, the Messenger, the Great Servant of Allah, the Word of Allah, and the Spirit from Him. In the Bible, He is the Spirit of God in the flesh in the image of God. I think there are common meanings here as well.

I should immediately point out that Jesus did not call Himself God in the Bible, neither did He call His mother Mary God. He called to "worship only the Lord God and serve Him alone." Jesus gave the first and greatest commandment: "The Lord our God, the Lord is one."

Mary, the mother of Jesus, was told by an angel: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the holy one who will be born will be called the Son of God." This is a Son of the Spirit, not of the flesh as we tend to understand.

The Bible also calls Jesus the Son of God with the same authority. What is meant is that God Himself acted and worked on earth through Jesus. Christ had a mission to keep those who believe in God from sin for their forgiveness and resurrection. It is said that only those who believe in Jesus' sacrifice to the Lord God for the forgiveness of sins for all who repent and believe will receive eternal life in Paradise.

There are many times in the Bible when Jesus stops people when they start to worship Him personally as God. He said, "No one is good but One, that is, God." Another thing is when people worshiped the Lord God through Jesus Christ.

"My Father is greater than I," that is what Jesus says, and everything He does is all by the will of God, not by Jesus Himself, and the power that is in Him is given by God. That's what the Bible says.

God Himself says about Jesus in the Gospel: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"; "My Beloved".

If someone does not like the word "son," this word is applied in the Bible not only to Jesus, but also to all believers and the favored, which proves once again that the meaning of the word "son" is not our ordinary one: not a son of the flesh, but a son of the Spirit, a person who belongs to the people of God. Jesus told the apostles that He would ascend "to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God". The Bible also says, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Also, the words "Father" and "Son" can be mistranslated or misinterpreted and convey the wrong meaning. For example, one can be a son by the flesh, or one can be a son by the spirit. Finally, in GENESIS (the first book of the Bible), at the creation of man, it says that God "breathed into his (Adam's) nostrils the breath of life."

In conclusion, not only Jesus but all those who are acceptable to God are sons of the Lord because the Holy Spirit is in them. This is confirmed by the examples of the above sayings.

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