What is the Islamic view of John 1:1 from the Bible?

Question

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

I've seen Muslims point out other scriptures in the Bible trying to disprove the deity of Jesus but I can't seem to find their view on this scripture.

Answer 1

Well, you've got what the first answerer stated, which was a good answer even if I disagree with him.

Then you've also got the Muslims who tell you that the Bible is "corrupted" so you can't believe a word it says.

Answer 2

This is the problem with using the Bible to prove Islam. There will always be some verses that go against Islamic teachings because the Bible is not and never has been the word-for-word revelation that the Quran is. It is a collection of people's remembrances about what Jesus said from the disciples' points of view. It is more like our hadith (collections of the sayings of the Prophet) and open to human misunderstanding and alteration.

While it is interesting to find some verses which seem to disprove Christian theology contained within the Bible, there will always be others that support it. Nevertheless, as a Christian, it does still behoove you to try to understand how these seeming contradictions can exist.

Answer 3

They have no views because if they did, they would have known that believing without seeing is faith which they don't have. And that is just another reason to say that they will never be able to disprove the deity of Jesus Christ.

Answer 4

Where does in this verse say the word is Jesus Christ? why did you jump from verse 1 to 14.
It is that Christianity made up 'trinity' which is nowhere in the Holy Bible even by name. Nowhere Jesus directly says' I am your God' or says ' Worship me'. Can you put forward a single direct verse from Bible.
Truth is that Jesus Christ (pbuh) was a messenger of God like many other messengers came before him. The message of God is one for all times. That is to worship One God ALmighty without any partners.

Answer 5

John was someone who wrote the bible therefore this is mans word that you are using for a proof. SO how can this be a proof who was John anyway, do we know more about him?

Not really he wasn't even a disciple of Jesus (upon him peace) this is another John.

Thats your answer.

Answer 6

Denial.

They would say, similar to the first answer, that it does not say that the flesh was Jesus. I would however point to the fact that He fulfills EVERY prophesy about the Christ.

Answer 7

Who actually declared the divinity of Jesus? Son/father of God or equal to god?
Is there any single, unequivocal statement in the Bible whereby Jesus himself declares, "I am God, therefore worship me." The act of begetting is a physical act and such act is against God’s nature. The Qur’an 19:35 says: "It is not befitting to (the majesty of) Allah that He should beget a son. Glory be to Him! When He determines a matter He only says to it "Be," and it is." (Maryam 19:35) The teachings of Jesus as the Son of God were not preached by Jesus nor accepted by Jesus, but were taught by Paul as supported in Acts 9:20: "And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God." Did Jesus ever claim to be God or say, "Here am I, your God, worship me"? The answer is no. For there is no single, unequivocal statement in the Bible whereby Jesus himself declares, "I am God, therefore worship me." Virtually all of the more than two thousand verses of the epistles of Paul are his own fabrications to include Romans 9:5 that says, depending upon which Bible you read: "...Christ came, who is overall, the eternally blessed God."
Gospels of Paul.
Christians should know that Paul himself mentions his own gospel, not Jesus, in his epistle to the Romans when he says in Romans 2:16: "In the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel."
In face, the Pauline epistle to the Romans serves as the foundation of today’s Christianity. Thus, it is the Christians whose efforts will be wasted in this life as they think they were acquiring good by their works when they attribute partners to God, as stated in Chapter 18:103-106 of the Qur’an: "Say: Shall we tell you of those who lost most in respect of their deeds? Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life, while they thought that they were acquiring good by their works?" they are those who deny the Signs of their Lord and the fact of their having to meet Him (in the Hereafter): vain will be their works, nor shall We, on the Day of judgment, give them any weight. That is their reward, Hell; because they rejected Faith, and took My Signs and My Messengers by way of jest. (Al-Kahf 18:103-106)

Answer 8

What makes you think John could be trusted?