If a God would like humans to reach Him, He needs a book accurately described about Him and His requirement for humans. Such a book will basically not change along time for humans in different times of history to read the same stuff to reach the same God with the same requirement for His judgment.
He thus needs to authenticate a human authority as a representative of His book, or else everyone may pop up to say that "my version of the book is the genuine one". The Jews were first assigned to be such a representative. When the Jews became unqualified, the authority was shifted to the Catholics then the Protestants. All of them are maintaining the same core (Canon) of the OT, with the Catholics and Protestants sharing the same NT.
God must choose the most efficient way for His information to be conveyed among humans, such that more can access the information to be saved. And the most efficient way for a truth to be conveyed is through multiple accounts of human witnessing backed by martyrdom of the direct witnesses.
Of course, an even more efficient way is for God to show Himself up to everyone to convey the message, however this violates His own covenants which demanded one's faith to be saved.
In Christianity, holiness is "righteousness in God's eyes" but not necessarily in terms of Law. Sinlessness however is measured and judged against Law. So when it is said someone is holy, you need to address base on what he's judged to be holy. In Christianity, holiness is judged by God using His said covenant (which a human belongs to and covered by) as a standard.
A covenant is mainly composed of Law and Grace (the New Covenant is virtually with 0 Law and 100% Grace) covering a scope of humans (The covenant with Mosaic Law is basically for the Jews). Usually, each update of a covenant will involve the decreasing of the Law part together with an increasing of the Grace part. Humans are saved by such a mixture of covenant law and grace. The Law part is just a small set of God's Law, not the whole set as no one can keep God's full set of Law.
The Grace part of a covenant is usually reflected as human faith. Humans can be judged not by Law alone, but a mixture of Law and faith and finally faith alone because Jesus Christ will make a sacrifice at a certain point of humanity. To put it another way, without a covenant (i.e., without Grace) no humans can be saved. Without Christ then no Grace will be given.
Qu'ran is single account witnessing without any maintenance (anyone can claim its genuineness). Holiness is just a self-perception without a said standard.
He thus needs to authenticate a human authority as a representative of His book, or else everyone may pop up to say that "my version of the book is the genuine one". The Jews were first assigned to be such a representative. When the Jews became unqualified, the authority was shifted to the Catholics then the Protestants. All of them are maintaining the same core (Canon) of the OT, with the Catholics and Protestants sharing the same NT.
God must choose the most efficient way for His information to be conveyed among humans, such that more can access the information to be saved. And the most efficient way for a truth to be conveyed is through multiple accounts of human witnessing backed by martyrdom of the direct witnesses.
Of course, an even more efficient way is for God to show Himself up to everyone to convey the message, however this violates His own covenants which demanded one's faith to be saved.
In Christianity, holiness is "righteousness in God's eyes" but not necessarily in terms of Law. Sinlessness however is measured and judged against Law. So when it is said someone is holy, you need to address base on what he's judged to be holy. In Christianity, holiness is judged by God using His said covenant (which a human belongs to and covered by) as a standard.
A covenant is mainly composed of Law and Grace (the New Covenant is virtually with 0 Law and 100% Grace) covering a scope of humans (The covenant with Mosaic Law is basically for the Jews). Usually, each update of a covenant will involve the decreasing of the Law part together with an increasing of the Grace part. Humans are saved by such a mixture of covenant law and grace. The Law part is just a small set of God's Law, not the whole set as no one can keep God's full set of Law.
The Grace part of a covenant is usually reflected as human faith. Humans can be judged not by Law alone, but a mixture of Law and faith and finally faith alone because Jesus Christ will make a sacrifice at a certain point of humanity. To put it another way, without a covenant (i.e., without Grace) no humans can be saved. Without Christ then no Grace will be given.
Qu'ran is single account witnessing without any maintenance (anyone can claim its genuineness). Holiness is just a self-perception without a said standard.
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