Quote:The purpose of this thread was not to say Jesus Christ is Jehovah the Father, he is not. The Bible is clear on that point. Nor was the purpose to prove the diety of Christ. We have already established that there is one above Jesus (God the Father) the purpose of this thread was to identify what God it was that Jesus recognized as his "Father". The Qur'an teaches that al'ilah did not have a son (23:91). Jesus then could not have been referring to "al'ilah" as his father. That is the point of this thread.
You have made more than one point in your post and not just one point which you have explained now in few lines.
Anyways, let me answer your quesion in a very simple manner.
If in the language of the Jews, the word SON and SERVANT mean the same thing (<b>as you have said on the other thread that this term</b> <i>can be translated both son and servant. While "son" is the more common rendering, servant is correct also</i>. ) then naturally the word FATHER and MASTER, or Owner would also mean the same. so when Jesus called out His God as Father, he was actually calling His Creator and His Master, and not His Father in the literal sense.
You see, that is the genius of the Hebrew language, they understood that Father would only refer to God the Creator and Master of this whole world, and that's why, they themselves were called the '<b>children of God'</b> which means, righteous servants of God and not literally begotten by God Almighty.
However, this term “Father”' was expunged from the Islamic terminology because of its connotation in the Arabic language (as well as in many other languages).When you say "<i>God is the Father</i>", immediately you are degrading the Creator to the position of His Creation, and thus another word was introduced instead of ABB (i.e. Father) to avoid any confusion and to place God in His higher and proper position, and that is the word <b>RABB</b>, which means Lord, Cherisher, Sustainer of the universe.
So we have no objection if Jesus PBUH refered to His God as Father in order for the Jews to understand that he was actually calling His RABB, but since these matters are already cleared up, then everyone now should call God with this proper term.
I hope this answer your question.
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