Arain Christian influence on Islam

[Le Bateman]

  I am just thinking about the similarity in the belief Jesus was born of a 
virgin, but not divine. This was the teaching of Arius. All of the Church 
fathers including Ireneus, who was the disciple of Polycarp, who is said to 
be John The Beloved Disciple. All of them taught that Arianism was a 
heretical sect.  Muhammad lived in the 6th Century, and died at the time 
that Redwald King of East Anglia died in 632 A.D. So he would have 
encountered the Monks who live in the Sinai.
They have a monastery on Mount Sinia. Or somewhere on the Sinai or Arabian 
Peninsula. I am thinking of the Greek Orthodox monks. I also believe the 
Coptic Christians of Egypt were around as well. So they were around. It is 
possible he did come incontact with him. The Quran does call these and the 
Jews Unbelievers. So he was aware of them. I will have to reread the Quran.
Le
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--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Le Bateman" <LeBateman at ...> wrote:
>
>   Does anyone know if there was a strong Arian influence on Islam.
They both
> seemed to view Jesus as important, but not devine as the Orthodox
faith.
> Could Mohammed have known the followers of Ulfius.I probably have the
> Bishop's name spelled wrong.
> Le
>


It is very, very doubtful. Many historians of the Islamic religion
believe that Mohammad was personally acquainted with the Jewish
religion but not with the Christian one, which he knew just by
hearsay. If so, it was highly unlikely that he knew the beliefs of a
'heretical' sect.

In Islamic religion Jesus is a prophet, just like Moses and Abraham.
The greatest of the prophets before Mohammed, but a prophet, nothing
more and nothing less.

Besides, if you are not a Christian you will not only never accept the
divine nature of Jesus, but you will not even pose yourself the question.



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