Searching Below the Surface Quotes

“The Bible and Quran clash since Yahweh avoids complete aloneness in his essence while Allah does not have any internal unity of persons in his aloneness. Their Oneness demonstrates how each willingly shares or holds back themselves.”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract

“In biblical inspiration, the Spirit breathes inwardly within or near the messenger, moving him to write the very words of God. The one carried along by the Spirit forms a mystery alignment between God’s Spirit and the prophet.”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract

“The words Let us, our image, our likeness pronounce a mutual connection. Creation forms new life, but even more so formulates a relationship between the Creator and humanity. Yahweh shares and comes close by sharing his image and his likeness. This association or, as some would mistakenly say, “partnership,” does not lessen who he is. When God creates, he is never less than himself. He neither changes nor can face rivalry by interacting or sharing. He is beyond human thinking. The assumed thought that an earthly monarch who shares or associates with a weaker or lesser person would lose honor, self-essence, power, or status is incorrect. Quite the contrary, the divine graciously sharing of himself brings honor. God speaks his mind—who are we not to take notice and stand in awe?”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract

“Partnership as a keyword in Islam carries a negative connotation when associated with Allah since any partnership implies another outside of Allah as a rival.”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract

“The Word of God shows that the Son and the Holy Spirit neither contend in rivalry nor create a partnership with Yahweh but demonstrate perfect harmony. The oneness of Yahweh consists of divine persons, not partners.”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract

“Oneness describes the joining of persons, while unity describes the bond which holds the oneness together. Even though with God, the Oneness and Unity have always been from eternity past.”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract

“Even within Himself, a unity of persons forms, called the Trinity, defining the divine persons' unity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in oneness.”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract

“For Muslims, rejecting the view of absolute oneness and accepting something different, categorizes as unbelief. Likewise, Christians must accept Jesus as the Way, the Truth, and the Life and his concluding summary in how to come to God when he said, 'No man comes to the Father except through me' (John 14:6). In both viewpoints, the obvious exclusivity makes the blasphemy of one religion the foundation of another. These exclusive markers become the initial openings for both yet close the door for the other.”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract

“A oneness-in-unity deity's will, much like his own relationality, seeks to relate closely in giving his communications, but an Absolute Oneness deity will maintain his lofty position allowing only a downward communication. Both communicate consistently with their covenant or contract nature.”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract

“Indwelling Inspiration is the God-breathed process in which the Spirit of God generates the very words of God through or intimately near the messenger. The inspiration process mysteriously breathes through the personality of the messenger.”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract

“Progressive revelation does not just join parts but joins prophets together to proclaim the same message in an ever-widening and deepening way.”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract

“A marriage relationship moves from the unknown to the known, desiring personal revealing to encourage continued growth in closeness.”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract