may you tell me? because I'm a muslim?

Question

I met a person which is a Christian, we had talk about the ISLAM and CHRISTIAN but what i didn't understand it and he didn't give me an idea about it is :
He told me that JESUS is the god ? i asked him where was the god before JESUS and where is the god as long as JESUS is died ( as he said ), when i told him that in the ISLAM we believe that JESUS isn't died and wasn't crossed , he start talking about amny things then he said " JESUS is the GOD and the son of the GOD ", i asked him how can JESUS be two different things ( GOD & son of GOD ) .
he didn't answer me.
now may you answer me that question,
how can JESUS be the GOD and the son of the GOD at the same time?? and were we without GOD before JESUS and without GOD now after JESUS died?
because in ISLAM we believe in that : JESUS is a prophet(as all the prophets which came before and after him) from the GOD has been sent to the people to teach them that there is one God and to Worship that GOD.

Answer 1

Mohammed was the last Messenger of GOD. The syllabus is complete. Therefore, the only book that should be referred to for guidance is the Holy Koran. It supercedes all the previous Books.

Answer 2

Ok - let's all just stop spruiking the superiority of Islam and answer the damn' question!

Christianity teaches that there are three persons in the Holy Trinity, each of which is co-equal and co-eternal with the other. Those three persons are God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit. As Henry Cardinal Newman put it in 'The Dream of Gerontius'':

Firmly I believe and truly
God is three and God is one
And I next acknowledge duly
Manhood taken by the Son.

So the Holy Trinity is God, indivisible and yet made of three persons who manifest the loving, merciful and salvific aspects of God. Often it's referred to as the mystery of the Holy Trinity because it defies all logical analysis and must be accepted on faith.

In the flesh, the incarnation of Jesus Christ is accepted by Christians as the fulfilment of the messianic prophecies of the Old Testament. Christ was crucified for the forgiveness of sins, making the perfect sacrifice for all time and completing the old Law that required blood sacrifices to God for purification and the forgiveness of sin. Christ rose from the dead three days after his crucifixion, again fulfilling Old Testament prophecy, appeared to Mary Magdalene outside the tomb, then appeared to his disciples before ascending to Heaven.

The Nicene Creed sums it all up much better:

I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty,
Maker of Heaven and Earth,
Of all things, seen and unseen.

I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
The only Son of God,
Eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God,
Light from Light,
True God from true God,
Begotten, not made,
Of one being with the Father.
Through Him all things were made.
For us and our salvation
He came down from Heaven;
by the power of the Holy Spirit
He became incarnate of the Virgin Mary
And was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
In accordance with the Scriptures;
He ascended into Heaven
And is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again to judge the living and the dead
And his kingdom will have no end.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
Who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.

I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
I acknowlege one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.

How's that for indoctrination? I don't believe any of it anymore, but it's still hiding away inside me!

Answer 3

The Christian understanding of God is that God has three parts, which are called the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

It is like in the human body there are many parts but they are part of the same person and they always work together, although they may do different things. Like the heart pumps blood, the legs walk, the mouth talks, the brain thinks and so on. If I go to a restautrant and order some food, all of these parts work together to accomplish what i want to do. So it is with God. The parts of God always work together to do everythng that God does.

In the case of God, each of the three parts that Christians know about, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, each of them can think and do things, it is like if a human being has three brains, so it is like they are three people, but at the same time they are still part of the same God and not three different gods.

So, in the Christian understanding, God sent part of himself, the part we call the Son, into the world and made it take the form of a man, Jesus, who had a man's body and lived as a man amongst us humans, and yet he was still God.

Before Jesus was born on earth, the part of God that became Jesus was already there as part of God. When Jesus appeared on earth as a man, it was something like if God stuck his hand into the world and made it into a man, except that the part of God that he stuck into the world we call the Son and not the hand. But it is part of God like our hand is part of our body.

When Jesus died, part of God died, but the other parts were still alive. And even the part that died, Jesus, was given the power to come back to life. God has the power to bring dead people back to life, and so when Jesus as a man died, God was able to bring him back to life also. So although Jesus died, God did not die.

When Jesus went up to heaven after he rose from death, it was like God taking back his hand from the world, except the part of God we call the Son and not his hand.

Because God is so great that we cannot understand everything about him, we have to use human language, words like "Father", "Son" and "Holy Spirit", to try and describe God. They are limited in what they can describe, and our understanding is also limited. The important thing, that God wants us to understand, is that God cares for us so much that he was willing to send part of himself into our world to live as a man and experience the hardships of human life, so that we can better understand God, and so that could deal with the problem of sin - but how God deals with human sin by the death of Jesus is itself another big topic.

Answer 4

Do you remember father Abraham? Do you remember when God came to him with two other angels and actually ate food with Abraham? That was not God the "father" that was God the Son because no man has ever seen God the Father. I know it is difficult to grasp but it is the ONLY explanation and that is the explanation given to man in the Bible. Think of it like this. You are a human being you have a right and left arm. Are they separate? yes, but are they not you? This illustration is simple but it is much like the GODHEAD, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. They are all one part of GOD but they all combine to make up the GODHEAD.

Answer 5

Thank you for asking, this is a difficult doctrine that we believe isn't it.

You see we believe that God is too large to have only one aspect to His personality, but that He is One God but with three distinct persons. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit(or Ghost as some say). They are all aspects of the One God.

In order for Jesus, the Son to come to earth as God and take on our sins and bear them to the cross(this is our belief) He had to be fully human, but in order to have the power once He was in the grave to defeat Satan He had to be fully God.

This is a great mystery of our Faith that goes back 2000 years to Christ Himself.

It is our belief that Mohamed did not fully understand this and therefore he missed the important facts when He formulated Islam. I say this in respect for your belief and only to tell you what we believe.

Once again thank you for asking, and I apologize for any here who were unkind to you after asking such a sincere question.

Answer 6

All christians have no answer to these questions, or worse give silly answers like : Jesus is God in Flesh, as if -God Forbid- God, the Lord, The Almighty, can ever be defined in the same way we are. Jesus never claimed to be God, and when he referred to God as father --- ''Abatay'' (in Aromaic his mother tongue) he did not mean it in the literal sense. Just because Jesus (pbuh) was born of a virgin mother doesn't mean that God was his father, and if so then is Adam God's son also? Of course not, it's silly to say that The Lord of All Of the Creation can have such a human attribution, as God says in the Quran :

They say: "((Allah)) Most Gracious has begotten a son!"
Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous!
At it the skies are ready to burst, the earth to split asunder, and the mountains to fall down in utter ruin,
That they should invoke a son for ((Allah)) Most Gracious.
For it is not consonant with the majesty of ((Allah)) Most Gracious that He should beget a son.
(The Quran, 6:91-93)

Answer 7

I am neither a muslim nor a christian so I think I can be a neutral judge.
As mentioned in Quran, Jesus existed much before Muhammad Paygambar. Again as per quran, Muhammad was the last messanger of God even till date.
Now as per bible, Jesus was born to Mother Mary & not descended from heaven. Is the matter clear now?
To sum up, both, Muhammad & Jesus are sons( or messanger, whatever u like) of God.

Answer 8

OK, as Christians we believe that the prophets in the old testament who mentioned that one day God's Word would be made flesh is Jesus. Because in the book of John 1:1 it says "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word was with God" When John was writing about the Word he was talking about Jesus. It's hard to explain Jesus as a human/heavenly being...He is both...

Jesus WAS dead, but He came back!

As you know, about being God and the son of God...God can do anything He wants or needs. We cannot define God or the powers of God in human terms because we cannot have a grasp of how God works...

Answer 9

Jesus and God are one. Jesus said I and my Father are one.
When you look at the two, you have to see one(Jesus) as the earthly manifestation of the Heavenly God. In the old testament God spoke to the prophets. Because we rebelled against His law, and prophets God established sacrifices as a method of a type of cleansing. Seeing as how God new it would take a "better" sacrifice to cleanse us of our sins, He (God) prepared himself a body. In John1:1 we know it says that in the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God. vs 14 and the word was made flesh (Jesus) and dwelt among us. Jesus being in an earthly Body without a natural Father, God Fathered Him through a virgin birth. thus, God being His Father in the earthly realm. In Holiness, communication, thought, deed, righteousness, He is God in the Flesh. What better sacrifice than God himself coming down in the form of a man and offering up a pure and final sacrifice?
It would take up much more space than this to truly explain all there is to understand Jesus and God are one

Answer 10

Ok this is the answer. In the 3rd century, the "christian" religion at that time incorporated the beliefs of pagan religions in order to please the Roman government, and compromise the teaching that Jesus taught.

The bible refers to God as one God. In the bible book of Proverbs Jesus explains that he was :
1. created so he had a beginning.
2. he was taught
3. he has purpose
Jesus existed as a spirit being before the earth and mankind was created. Jesus also confirms this fact. Jesus also acknowledges that he will submit himself as all of Gods creation , in giving the restored kingdom back to his Father God Almighty. God also identified his personal name to the Israelites as YHWH or Jehovah. In the holy bible or holy scriptures, there is only one God. Jesus is his first creation. Jesus is also given divine power, because of his obedience to God. I hope that is simple enough.

Answer 11

Jesus was no more than a humen being like you and i, the thing is the christians belive in Trinity God holy ghost and holy spirit or some thing like that. They think that God is Jesus and Jesus is god. But the forget to realize tht God has sent jesus only as his messenger just like he send muhammed and others before jesus. All the prophets are only humen beings and the power that they posses is only given to them from allah for a short period of time untill they die. But the disbelivers who dont belive in allah who cant see the faith decide to worship mere humen beings who were only sent here to give the message of thier Lord who is ALLAH the one and always existing exalted above all that they associate with him the all wise the all powerfull no humen could ever be God because he created us and to him we shall return!