Jesus is an important religious figure for both Islam and Christianity, although the ways in which he is important differs between the two religions. While Christianity believes him to be the Son of God and part of the Holy Trinity, Islam believes him to be a messenger of God sent to bring the Word of God to believers and non-believers alike so as to bring them to religion. Due to the well-known belief that Jesus was sent to Earth as a prophet by God and that Jesus was declared the Son of God, Muslims consider the message, which was entrusted to Jesus, to be distorted and that this distortion led to the creation of Christianity.
Mary (Maryam) had been told of God’s will through the word of the angel Gabriel that she would become the mother of a son, Jesus. The Bible has a more simplified, less extraordinary version compared to the Quran, making the creation of Jesus look far less glorious than it was truly supposed to be. In the Quran, the story of how Gabriel came to Mary is full of his telling her about how she has been chosen by God above all other women for this special task; that Jesus “shall speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. And he shall be (of the company) of the righteous.” In the Bible, it is simply by the angel Gabriel, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.”
Both the Bible and the Quran state that, after Mary had asked Gabriel how her being pregnant was possible for she had been with no man, it is stated that, “For no word from God will ever fail,” and, “Allah createth what He willeth: when He hath decreed a plan, He but saith to it, ‘Be,’ and it is!” Those two statements show that there is noth...
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...rship him and Muslims respect him, however, that respect is of him being a prophet, not a divine, heavenly being. According to the Qur’an, “The Messiah, son of Mary, is no more than a messenger like the messengers before him, and his mother was a saint. Both of them used to eat the food.” This verse proves the Muslim view that Jesus is a living and breathing man; he eats and sleeps in order to survive.
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First, Borg clarifies that Jesus was a Jewish mystic and Christian messiah. So, Jesus may not have thought he was the messiah. Borg believes Jesus was a Jewish mystic and Spirit person. So, Jesus performed many healings, but they should not be considered miracles. Borg refers to them as paranormal healings. Thus, Borg concludes that Jesus was a “prophet of the Kingdom of God”.
true in many divisions of the Christian religion. There is almost no dispute in the fact that Jesus
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Handout Week 4: The Qur’an on the Attributes of Muhammad and the Names of God.
...t. While Christians believe that Christ was killed on the Christ and resurrected, Muslims completely deny his death thus, the fact of resurrection (they believed that God just took him back). So, we can see that there is a number of similarities in the understanding of Jesus by Islam and Christianity, however they are also different. But, what is the most, important none of two religions denies the existence if this great figure.
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