Muslims believe Jesus was a Prophet, just not the son of God?
Early Christians didn't hold Jesus' divinity as dogmatic, until the Council of Nicene (technically nothing was dogmatic before that)!
And some rare Christians, like myself still don't care. (If he wasn't the son of God, something he NEVER directly states, would that make his teaching untrue and unimportant?
More over all three ABRAHAMIC religions have more similarities than differences?
SO WHY ALL THE HATRED AND VIOLENCE?
Thank God the Mormon Commandment #13 is respect the religious choice of another!
I'm not Mormon either.
Can you invision a day when all world religions will worship together. Or will we only devide them further?
2006-12-09 15:49:53 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What Gray has told you is very untrue. I'm a Muslim and I love Jesus (PBUH). He brought us a wonderfull message from God - LOVE. Whoever tells you that we don't apply his teachings is saying so out of his/her own ignorance and I forgive them. Jesus (PBUH) taught us to turn the other cheek in times when we are most hurt. It is being proved today: we are being accused and painted with the same brush as terrorists and yet - we, devout Muslims, are turning our other cheek and letting those insults flow. God said ''Revenge is mine'' and I have faith in His judgement.
Have a nice day and God bless you Inshallah :)
TO SOGA:
We believe Jesus (pbuh) is the Messiah.
We believe Jesus (pbuh) was a prophet of God just like Moses (pbuh) or Abraham (pbuh).
We believe in his virgin birth, we believe he performed all of his miracles in the name of God and with the guidance of God.
We believe he spent 3 days in hell .......... we believe he ascended to Heaven
We don't believe he was crucified ........we believe God replaced Jesus' (pbuh) body with a same looking man
We believe Mary (may Allah be pleased with her) is the example of pious woman and she will be the Queen of all women in Heaven
Jesus (pbuh) is waiting in Heaven right now for a time to come when he will return and unite us in one religion - islam
We also believe in Anti-Christ (Djelal) and we know that God will send Jesus (pbuh) back to fight him ..... by love of course
We follow Jesus' (pbuh) teachings of unconditional love
By the way, Qur'an talks more about Jesus (pbuh) than about Muhammed (pbuh) - Resulullah is mentioned by name only 4 times in Qur'an
I hope this helps you to understand
EDIT: And - yes, Soga, I forgive you for insulting God and calling Him a liar
2006-12-09 16:01:24 · answer #1 · answered by Regina 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The tenants of the Islam and Christian religions that can never be reconcilable pertains to Jesus as the Son of God. This will, IMO, be the cause of a great war the likes of which the world has never seen. I wish it were not so.
You say that Jesus never said that He was the Son of God. You are wrong. He said it often. This is why He was killed. The Jews said that Jesus was guilty of blasphemy because when questioned if He was the Son of God, He said that He was.
I understand that if someone says that Jesus is the Son of God it is a Muslims duty to kill that person for blasphemy. And a Christian will die rather than denounce Jesus. From this POV there can never be reconciliation between Islam and Christianity.
2006-12-09 16:21:36 · answer #2 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no 100% irreconcilable tenants of any faith versus another. There are only 100% irreconcilable people.
I can envision a day when all world religions will worship together. Not necessarily the same, but together.
I can also envision the human race destroying itself before this happens.
We were not put here to be hopeless, and I concede that worldwide religous tolerance is not only possible but worth striving for.
2006-12-09 16:06:49 · answer #3 · answered by jeffo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Frankly people are stupid and have misconstrued most of Jesus' and Islam's teachings. Anytime a group of people get together and get excited about something they kill somebody. Groups get excited at soccer games or rock concerts and someone gets hurt or killed. Religion is the same way, except that many religious leaders foment mob mentality by telling followers that they must adhere to some doctrine and not think or ask questions about the actions which those leaders deem good. These people then go out en masse and end up killing people.
Read every "holy" book you like, but please think, pray, or meditate on them and find your own path and allow others to do the same.
2006-12-09 16:01:47 · answer #4 · answered by DoctorJ 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lots. The identity of Jesus, the facts surrounding His life, and the authenticity of the Scriptures are all irreconcilable.
Jesus may not have SAID He was the Son of God, but he agreed with Peter when HE said so.
Hate and violence are part of the human condition.
But Jesus will return one day, and rule with a 'rod of iron'. For that 1000 year period, all men will indeed worship God together.
2006-12-09 15:59:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The ONLY one that matters is that islam rejects the divine nature of Jesus, Son of the one true God.
That single issue makes islam totally irreconcilable with Christianity.
2006-12-09 16:32:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Jesus did say He is God. Did he not say in John 10:30, that the Father and He are one? This is a claim to divinity, and why would the Jews have tried to stone him for blasphemy if that was not a blasphemious statement claiming to be God?
Azra - but do you claim that Jesus is the Christ? That is what Gray is saying - that's the difference. The Muslim Allah is not the same God described in the Christian Bible; the Muslim Allah claims to have deceived people into believing that Jesus is the Christ, Allah claims to have lied. This is not the God of the Christian Bible.
2006-12-09 16:03:01 · answer #7 · answered by Soga 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Do your own homework please. While Islam has major differences with Christianity (no trinity, Jesus is not god nor is he the son of god, you don't go to heaven simply by believing in god, jesus didn't die for your sins), there are many many similarities. Almost every story you find in Christianity, is also found in Islam. They believe in almost the same thing as far as Adam and Eve, Noah's ark, Abraham, Moses and the plight of the Jews in Egypt, etc.
2016-03-29 01:33:46 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Verily, the likeness of 'Iesa (Jesus) before Allah is the likeness of Adam. He created him from dust, then (He) said to him: "Be!" - and he was.' (Qur'an 3:54)
Why do you think Moses was angry when he saw his people worshiping the calf? WHy do you think Abraham broke his peoples idols? It is because worshiping other than God is deplorable. A muslim can never worship with someone that worships God's Prophet (the christians) or people that deny and killed a lot of them (the jews)
2006-12-09 15:51:48 · answer #9 · answered by hello 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately, I believe that only when the beliefs in the religions will be weak enough, will we see all religions praying together. The strong faith is what divides people.
2006-12-11 01:10:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋