Was Christ(pbuh) really crucified?

Question

I know this video is too long to go watch and reply in a couple of seconds, but sometime not necessarily now watch it and reflect on it, if you can tell me what you think
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2294876665735364519&q=Zakir+Naik&hl=en

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5283623989368520963&q=Zakir+Naik&hl=en

Answer 1

Video was tooooo long to watch. Anyway i will tell what i think.

Despite the fact that all Christians believe that Christ was crucified, which is also clearly stated in the Mark 15. 21-41; Matt. 27.32-44; Luke 23. 26-43 and John 19. 17-27, Quran states that it wasn't Jesus that the Jews crucified but someone resembling him.


"And because of their saying (in boast), "We killed Messiah 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), the Messenger of Allâh," - but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but the resemblance of 'Iesa (Jesus) was put over another man (and they killed that man), and those who differ therein are full of doubts. They have no (certain) knowledge, they follow nothing but conjecture. For surely; they killed him not [i.e. 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)

But Allâh raised him ['Iesa (Jesus)] up (with his body and soul) unto Himself (and he is in the heavens). And Allâh is Ever All­Powerful, All­Wise. )" (Q.4:157-158)

The story of Christ being lifted to heaven "in body and soul" is obviously contrary to all logic and science. One wonders what kind of Heaven Muhammad was envisioning? The above verse implies that Muhammad believed heaven must be a geographic place and that God has a physical body. Because if he had thought that Heaven is a spiritual realm, then where did the body of Jesus go? You need a physical place to accommodate a physical body. In an age that science is unraveling the mysteries of the extra terrestrial space, it would be interesting to question a Muslim, where is this physical heaven that Christ has ascended and God has set up his thrown?


One wonders why Muhammad would say such thing despite the emphasis in all four Gospels. The answer lies in the group of Nestorian Christians who populated the Damascus and Northern Arabia during time of Muhammad. These Christians thought that it would be impossible to kill the Son of God and believed that god tricked the Jews and sent someone else who looked like Jesus to be crucified, thus he saved his favorite Son. This is the source of the above verses of Quran.

By reading Quran one realizes that Muhammad knew the New Testament only through second hand stories and he never read the book himself.

There is another mistake of Muhammad that should be really embarrassing to anyone who claims that Quran is a revealed book. And that is about confusing Marry the Mother of Christ with Miriam the Sister of Aaron and Moses. These two were born about 1400 years apart from each other. See what Quran says.


At length she brought (the babe) to her people, carrying him (in her arms), They said: "O Mary! Truly a strange thing has thou brought! "O sister of Aaron, thy father was not a man of evil, nor your mother a woman unchaste!" Q. 19:27-28

Also:
And Mary, the daughter of `Imran, ..... -- Q. 66:12

What do you think about the above?

Answer 2

Yes, he really was. I know Islam holds as a matter of faith that he was not, but it needs to be recognized that the Quran is six centuries distant and not a reliable historical witness.

On the contrary, secular history records the execution of Jesus. The Roman historian Tacitus writes in the early 2nd century, "Christus, the founder of the name, was put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea in the reign of Tiberius." Tacitus was a reliable historian, and would not have written this if Roman records for the time period did not confirm that this event indeed did take place.

Answer 3

Yes He really was, and He rose again too. I know you may not accept this answer, but really, we have to understand that there is no other explanations for the zeal and passion the disciples had - even to their deaths in torment - for spreading the Word of the deity and resserection of Jesus.

Answer 4

Well, the Romans liked crucifying people. Andthere likely was some dude crucified that people later called christ. Was he the son of god? No.

Answer 5

Yes, he really was. It doesn't matter what the infidels say about such things! The historical record says it happened and it did.

Answer 6

Yes, unfortunately.
We had the colossal arrogance to try to kill our God.
Of course, we couldn't. He still lives.