Why the Muslims do not believe Jesus to be the 'Son of God'?

Question

Swami Vivekananda said qouting from Hindu scriptures that we are all children of Immortality, that is God. So both Muhammad and Jesus both could be children of God or Allah. where is the controversy?

Answer 1

Because it is told in the Quran and Muslims must believe in every word of it with out questioning the authority of Muhammad whom they must accept as the last prophet on the earth. Even Jews do not believe that Jesus was a prophet, let alone being son of God. Those who believe being influenced by the contemporaneous philosophy that went from India to Greece right from the time of Socrates, and to Iran, Arabian countries and the Middle East were declared as Kafirs and got killed in hundreds and thousands. Among them were more than 700 hundred Sufi saints who were influenced by Vedantic thoughts and practice of meditation and concept of one Brahman. The whole lot of Parsis who followed Zoroaster had to flee with log, stock and barrel and seek refuge in neighbouring India. The only alternative to non-acceptance of Quranic version was death. Peoples freedom to thought was totally banned by the Muslim clerics. As a result, one does not see many thinkers among the Muslims, and who ever survived he had to do that outside the influence of Muslim rulers.

Swami Vivekananda was also quoting from the Vedanta and Upanishads when he said that all human beings are children of the God Almighty and the whole Universe is one Consciousness of which individual consciousness is only an inseparable part.

How do you expect that the Muslims will have the freedom to think and exercise free judgement on something which is proscribed in the Quran. They are scared of getting killed by the fundamentalists who are actively supported by the fanatics. The trend has increased many fold in the recent years where politics and religion are decided in the Mosques and taught in the Madarsas. Perhaps, due to this some of the answer givers have questioned the propriety of categorising your question under 'Philosophy'. It is a very complex situation and perhaps, a great transition for the mankind as a whole.

Answer 2

The problem is that both Christians and Muslims are monotheistic religions, and each claims to be the final authority on TRUTH. To them Swami Vivekananda is a pagan. While Christianity and Islam both arose in the same general corner of the planet, Christianity was very early influenced by Greek philosophical thought and the general mindset of the first and second century AD Greek/Mediterranean world, which included popular beliefs from pagan times of virgin births, saviors, miracles and resurrections, etc. Islam developed a few centuries later, and the Bible was known to Mohammed. He said that Jesus was a prophet and is honored in the Islamic faith, but is not as the Son of God. You need to understand that the Christian concept of the Son of God is far different than the hindu concept. The Christian concept is a legalistically worked out formula to support the notion that Jesus was "God made flesh" who came to earth to die in order to be the ultimate sacrifice for the sins of mankind; not just a good moral teacher or prophet. You need to understand the background of how at the time of Jesus' life, animal sacrifices were made in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem to atone for sins; Jesus was seen by Christians as the ultimate sacrifice that made animal sacrifices obsolete. Then in succeeding centuries Christians worked out in painstaking detail how there was ONE GOD who was three distinct persons yet still just one being. I think this concept is quite alien to Islamic understanding of "ONE GOD".
Also in our time, when many of us kind of draw information and inspiration from worldwide sources without feeling underlying contractions, it is hard to appreciate how strongly and passionately these absolutist belief systems have been or are held by others. I'm also talking about the millions of people who have died in the past thousand years so that the Christian Church could continue it's grip over Western Souls.

Answer 3

Immortality is a product of God's interevention and does not represent Him as a whole, of course, nothing does.
Jesus declared that He was God, came to earth to bear our sins and restore our relationship to God. Islam denies Jesus' deity and declares Allah as God, a different description of God than illustrated in the Bible. With all that said, there is still no controversy, God is God, was, is and always will be, no false prophet can change that irregardless of how many are deceived.

Answer 4

Everyone is taught from a very young age to believe in whatever their parents believe. As far as they are concerned you are wrong for believing anything different. All of us believe in something...the only thing I can say is to stay true to whatever you believe in and try to live a good life and not be a hypocrite. People in general have a habit of thinking that when anyone has a different opinion or belief that everyone else needs to have the same belief....It's just the way we are....I believe in God and Jesus, but I'm not going to tell a Buddhist or a Muslim that their going to hell for not sharing my belief and I would hope that no one would try to tell me I was wrong.

Answer 5

Mohammed was a prophet, who believed that Jesus was a prophet too. But was Mohammed born of a virgin? Jesus was. When Mohammed died did he rise again 3 days later as He said?
Jesus was the word of God made flesh. He was God. He was also God the father, because His Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, without sexual intercourse. There is only one God, not some 3 headed deity.
God the father- God Almighty giver of life.
God's word- Jesus is the word of God, made flesh.
God's Holy Spirit-that impregnated Mary.

All GOD.

Jesus was the word of God made flesh. He bled, He cried, He was among His creation, and He died. Just his human body died, not God's holy spirit.

Answer 6

this is not a philosophy question, why don't you take it to the right place, may be you get dissent answer too, but any way dos any other religion except for Catholics believe that? Muslims believe that holy Jesus was a real profit send from God and Maria was a virgin, to your information any other Religion except for Muslims believe that,

Answer 7

every one has their own belief. its with them also. intellectuals like Swami Vivekananda realized the importance of human lives as immortal. to safe guard humanity, the great man quoted so. i admire him. the great soul of humanity.

Answer 8

i think this idea can't be right!
Allah is one & is not like any one of us so he don't need to have any children but only people asked to obey him & to work hard for his paradice
imagine if allah really has son this means his sons can be gods also & and they may fight him for being masters this would spoil the earth

Answer 9

Honestly, we are all the son's of God. We were made in his image and he sent Jesus to us as a testament to his truth. So to say that one man is the son of God would not be accurate.

Answer 10

If you ask the right question, "what the hell are the three great desert religions doing killing each other like so many flys gathering on the dead body of child killed by a loving bomb?"