Nakhati Jon > Quotes

“A covenant is a God-initiated relational bond of promise that seeks the covenant-keepers to dwell with God.”
― Nakhati Jon, Defining Marriage: Sketching the Difference between 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

“Khomeini gives permanent and non-permanent marriages equal status and includes no moral distinction between the two.”
― Nakhati Jon, Survey of Shia Marriage in Iran: Based on literature, media and personal interviews

“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

“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

“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 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

“Permanent and temporary marriages are morally equal. Khomeini gives permanent and non-permanent marriages equal status and includes no moral distinction between the two.”
― Nakhati Jon, Survey of Shia Marriage in Iran: Based on literature, media and personal interviews

“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

“In some Western circles, dreams are often dismissed and ignored regarding our spiritual lives. However, numerous testimonies from other countries reveal that dreams frequently arise from engagement with Scripture, which we know ultimately leads to salvation. Discussing this topic should be considered normal.”
― Nakhati Jon

“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 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

“The divine-human relationship conveys oneness in which God, as a sacrificial lover, pursues a bond with his beloved people.”
― Nakhati Jon, Defining Marriage: Sketching the Difference between 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

“Love is a common theme in the poetry of Iran...While love is highly promoted in poetry, the concept of marriage is not.”
― Nakhati Jon, Survey of Shia Marriage in Iran: Based on literature, media and personal interviews

“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

“A covenant relationship with God becomes more significant than any agreement between two people or nations because the divine declaration occurred in God's presence and by his initiative.”
― Nakhati Jon, Defining Marriage: Sketching the Difference between 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

“Respect comes from a three-dimensional perspective: your beliefs, my beliefs, and God’s truth. How we respond to His truth makes the greatest difference.”
― Nakhati Jon