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Christians and Muslims both believe in Jesus, love him, and honor him.
They are, however, divided over the question of his divinity.
Fortunately,
this difference can be resolved if we refer the question to both the
Bible and the Quran, because, both the Bible and the Quran teach that
Jesus is not God.
It is clear enough to everyone that the Quran
denies the divinity of Jesus, so we do not need to spend much time
explaining that.
On the other hand, many people misunderstand the
Bible; they feel that the belief in Jesus as God is so widespread that
it must have come from the Bible. This article shows quite conclusively
that the Bible does not teach that.
The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is not God. In the Bible God is always someone else other than Jesus.
Some
will say that something Jesus said or something he did while on the
earth proves that he is God. We will show that the disciples never came
to the conclusion that Jesus is God. And those are people who lived
and walked with Jesus and thus knew first hand what he said and did.
Furthermore, we are told in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible that
the disciples were being guided by the Holy Spirit.
If Jesus is
God, surely they should have known it. But they did not. They kept
worshipping the one true God who was worshipped by Abraham, Moses, and
Jesus (see Acts 3:13).
All of the writers of the Bible believed
that God was not Jesus. The idea that Jesus is God did not become part
of Christian belief until after the Bible was written, and took many
centuries to become part of the faith of Christians.
Matthew,
Mark, and Luke, authors of the first three Gospels, believed that Jesus
was not God (see Mark 10:18 and Matthew 19:17). They believed that he
was the son of God in the sense of a righteous person. Many others too,
are similarly called sons of God (see Matthew 23:1-9).
Paul,
believed to be the author of some thirteen or fourteen letters in the
Bible, also believed that Jesus is not God. For Paul, God first created
Jesus, then used Jesus as the agent by which to create the rest of
creation (see Colossians 1:15 and 1 Corinthians 8:6). Similar ideas are
found in the letter to the Hebrews, and also in the Gospel and Letters
of John composed some seventy years after Jesus. In all of these
writings, however, Jesus is still a creature of God and is therefore
forever subservient to God (see 1 Corinthians 15:28).
Now,
because Paul, John, and the author of Hebrews believed that Jesus was
God’s first creature, some of what they wrote clearly show that Jesus
was a pre-existent powerful being. This is often misunderstood to mean
that he must have been God. But to say that Jesus was God is to go
against what these very authors wrote.
Although these authors had
this later belief that Jesus is greater than all creatures, they also
believed that he was still lesser than God. In fact, John quotes Jesus
as saying: “...the Father is greater than I.” (John 14:28). And Paul
declares that the head of every woman is her husband, the head of every
man is Christ, and the head of Christ is God (see 1 Corinthians 11:3).
Therefore,
to find something in these writings and claim that these teach that
Jesus is God is to misuse and misquote what those authors are saying.
What they wrote must be understood in the context of their belief that
Jesus is a creature of God as they have already clearly said.
So
we see then, that some of the later writers had a higher view of Jesus,
but none of the writers of the Bible believed that Jesus is God. The
Bible clearly teaches that there is only one true God, the one whom
Jesus worshipped (see John 17: 3).
In the rest of this article we
will explore the Bible in more depth, and deal with the passages which
are most often misquoted as proofs of Jesus’ divinity. We will show,
with God’s help, that these do not mean what they are so often used to
prove.
Evidence From the Acts of the Apostles:
Jesus
performed many miraculous wonders, and he without doubt said a lot of
wonderful things about himself. Some people use what he said and did as
a proof that he was God. But his original disciples who lived and
walked with him, and were eyewitnesses to what he said and did, never
reached this conclusion.
The Acts of the Apostles in the Bible
details the activity of the disciples over a period of thirty years
after Jesus was lifted up to heaven. Throughout this period they never
refer to Jesus as God. They continually and consistently use the title
God to refer to someone else other than Jesus.
Peter stood up
with the eleven disciples and addressed the crowd saying: “Men of
Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to
you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through
him, as you yourselves know.” (Acts 2:22).
It was God, therefore,
who did the miracles through Jesus to convince people that Jesus was
backed by God. Peter did not see the miracles as proof that Jesus is
God.
In fact, the way Peter refers to God and to Jesus makes it
clear that Jesus is not God. For he always turns the title God away
from Jesus. Take the following references for example:
“God has raised this Jesus...” (Acts 2:32)
“God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.” (Acts 2:36)
In both passages, the title God is turned away from Jesus. So why he did this, if Jesus was God?
For
Peter, Jesus was a servant of God. Peter said: “God raised up his
servant...” (Acts 3:26). The title servant refers to Jesus. This is
clear from a previous passage where Peter declared: “The God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant
Jesus.” (Acts 3:13).
Peter must have known that Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob never spoke of a Triune God. They always spoke of God as the
only God. Here, as in Matthew 12:18, Jesus is the servant of God.
Matthew tells us that Jesus was the same servant of God spoken of in
Isaiah 42:1. So, according to Matthew and Peter, Jesus is not God, but
God’s servant. The Old Testament repeatedly says that God is alone
(e.g. Isaiah 45:5).
All of the disciples of Jesus held this view.
In Acts 4:24 we are told that the believers prayed to God saying:
“...they raised their voices together in prayer to God. ‘Sovereign
Lord,’ they said, ‘you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and
everything in them.’” It is clear that the one they were praying to was
not Jesus, because, two verses later, they referred to Jesus as
“...your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.” (Acts 4:27).
If
Jesus was God, his disciples should have said this clearly. Instead,
they kept preaching that Jesus was God’s Christ. We are told in Acts:
“Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never
stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the
Christ.” (Acts 5:42).
The Greek word “Christ” is a human title.
It means “Anointed.” If Jesus was God, why would the disciples
continually refer to him with human titles like servant and Christ of
God, and consistently use the title God for the one who raised Jesus?
Did they fear men? No! They boldly preached the truth fearing neither
imprisonment nor death. When they faced opposition from the
authorities, Peter declared: “We must obey God rather than men! The God
of our fathers raised Jesus...” (Acts 5:29-30).
Were they
lacking the Holy Spirit? No! They were supported by the Holy Spirit
(see Acts 2:3, 4:8, and 5:32). They were simply teaching what they had
learnt from Jesus — that Jesus was not God but, rather, God’s servant
and Christ.
The Quran confirms that Jesus was the Messiah (Christ), and that he was God’s servant (see the Holy Quran 3:45 and 19:30).
Jesus is Not All-Powerful, and Not All-Knowing:
Christians
and Muslims agree that God is all-powerful and all-knowing. The
Gospels show that Jesus was not all-powerful, and not all-knowing, since
he had some limitations.
Mark tells us in his gospel that Jesus
was unable to do any powerful work in his hometown except few things:
“He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick
people and heal them.” (Mark 6:5). Mark also tells us that when Jesus
tried to heal a certain blind man, the man was not healed after the
first attempt, and Jesus had to try a second time (see Mark 8:22-26).
Therefore, although we hold a great love and respect for Jesus, we need to understand that he is not the all-powerful God.
Mark’s
Gospel also reveals that Jesus had limitations in his knowledge. In
Mark 13:32, Jesus declared that he himself does not know when the last
day will occur, but the Father alone knows that (see also Matthew
24:36).
Therefore, Jesus could not have been the all-knowing God.
Some will say that Jesus knew when the last day will occur, but he
chose not to tell. But that complicates matters further. Jesus could
have said that he knows but he does not wish to tell. Instead, he said
that he does not know. We must believe him. Jesus does not lie at all.
The
Gospel of Luke also reveals that Jesus had limited knowledge. Luke
says that Jesus increased in wisdom (Luke 2:52). In Hebrews too
(Hebrews 5:8) we read that Jesus learned obedience. But God’s knowledge
and wisdom is always perfect, and God does not learn new things. He
knows everything always. So, if Jesus learned something new, that
proves that he did not know everything before that, and thus he was not
God.
Another example for the limited knowledge of Jesus is the
fig tree episode in the Gospels. Mark tells us as follows: “The next
day as they were leaving Bethany , Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the
distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit.
When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the
season for figs.” (Mark 11:12-13).
It is clear from these verses
that the knowledge of Jesus was limited on two counts. First, he did
not know that the tree had no fruit until he came to it. Second, he did
not know that it was not the right season to expect figs on trees.
Can he become God later? No! Because there is only one God, and He is God from everlasting to everlasting (see Psalms 90:2).
Someone
may say that Jesus was God but he took the form of a servant and
therefore became limited. Well, that would mean that God changed. But
God does not change. God said so according to Malachi 3:6.
Jesus
never was God, and never will be. In the Bible, God declares: “Before
me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.” (Isaiah 43:10).
The Bible clearly shows that Jesus was not all-powerful and all-knowing as the true God should be.
The Greatest Commandment in the Bible and the Quran:
Some
will say that this whole discussion over the divinity of Jesus is
unnecessary. They say, the important thing is to accept Jesus as your
personal savior. On the contrary, the Bible’s writers stressed that, in
order to be saved, it is necessary to understand who exactly is God.
Failure to understand this would be to violate the first and greatest of
all the commandments in the Bible. This commandment was emphasized by
Jesus, on whom be peace, when a teacher of the Law of Moses asked him:
“‘Of all the commandments, which is the most important?’ ‘The most
important one,’ answered Jesus, ‘is this: Hear, O Israel , the Lord our
God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’”
(Mark 12:28-30).
Notice that Jesus was quoting the first
commandment from the book of Deuteronomy 6:4-5. Jesus confirmed not
only that this commandment is still valid, but also that it is the most
important of all the commandments. If Jesus thought that he himself is
God, why did not he say so? Instead, he stressed that God is one. The
man who questioned Jesus understood this, and what the man says next
makes it clear that God is not Jesus, for he said to Jesus: “‘Well said,
teacher,’ the man replied. ‘You are right in saying that God is one
and there is no other but him.’” (Mark 12:32).
Now if Jesus was
God, he would have told the man so. Instead, he let the man refer to
God as someone other than Jesus, and he even saw that the man had spoken
wisely: “When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him,
‘You are not far from the kingdom of God .’” (Mark 12:34). If Jesus
knew that God is a trinity, why did not he say so? Why did he not say
that God is one in three, or three in one? Instead, he declared that
God is one. True imitators of Jesus will imitate him also in this
declaration of God’s oneness. They will not add the word three where
Jesus never said it.
Does salvation depend on this commandment?
Yes, says the Bible! Jesus made this clear when another man approached
Jesus to learn from him (see Mark 10:17-29). The man fell on his knees
and said to Jesus: “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal
life?” Jesus replied: “Why do you call me good? No one is good —
except God alone.” (Mark 10:17-18).
By so saying, Jesus made a
clear distinction between himself and God. Then he proceeded with the
answer to the man’s question about how to get salvation. Jesus told
him: “If you want to enter life, obey the commandments.” (Matthew 19:17,
also see Mark 10:19).
Remember that the most important of all
the commandments, according to Jesus, is to know God as the only God.
Jesus further emphasized this in the Gospel According to John. In John
17:1, Jesus lifted his eyes to heaven and prayed, addressing God as
Father. Then in verse three, he said to God as follows: “Now this is
eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom you have sent.” (John 17:3).
This proves beyond
doubt that if people want to get eternal life they must know that the
One, whom Jesus was praying to, is the only true God, and they must know
that Jesus was sent by the true God. Some say that the Father is God,
the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. But Jesus said that the
Father alone is the only true God.
True followers of Jesus will
follow him in this too. Jesus had said that his true followers are
those who hold to his teachings. He said: “If you hold to my teaching,
you are really my disciples.” (John 8:31). His teaching is that people
must continue to keep the commandments, especially the first commandment
which emphasizes that God is alone, and that God should be loved with
all our hearts and all our strengths.
We love Jesus, but we must
not love him as God. Today many love Jesus more than they love God.
This is because they see God as a vengeful person who wanted to exact a
penalty from them, and they see Jesus as the savior who rescued them
from the wrath of God. Yet God is our only savior. According to Isaiah
43:11, God said: “I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no
savior.” Also God said according to Isaiah 45:21-22: “Was it not I,
the LORD? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a
Savior; there is none but me. Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of
the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.”
The Quran
confirms the first commandment and addresses it to all humankind (see
the Holy Quran 2:163). And God declares that true believers love Him
more than anyone else or anything else (Quran 2:165).
Paul Believed That Jesus is not God:
Many
people use Paul’s writings as proof that Jesus is God. But this is not
fair to Paul, because Paul clearly believed that Jesus is not God. In
his first letter to Timothy, Paul wrote: “I charge you, in the sight of
God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, to keep these instructions.
..” (1 Timothy 5:21).
It is clear from this that the title God
applies not to Christ Jesus, but to someone else. In the following
chapter, he again differentiates between God and Jesus when he says: “In
the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus,
who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession.. .”
(1 Timothy 6:13).
Paul then went on to speak of the second
appearance of Jesus: “the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God
will bring about in his own time.” (1 Timothy 6:14-15).
Again,
the title God is deliberately turned away from Jesus. Incidentally,
many people think that when Jesus is called “Lord” in the Bible that
this means “God.” But in the Bible this title means master or teacher,
and it can be used for addressing humans (see 1 Peter 3:6).
What
is more important, however, is to notice what Paul said about God in the
following passage, which clearly shows that Jesus is not God: “God, the
blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone
is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen
or can see. To him be honor and might forever.” (1 Timothy 6:15-16).
Paul
said that God alone is immortal. Immortal means he does not die.
Check any dictionary. Now, anyone who believes that Jesus died cannot
believe that Jesus is God. Such a belief would contradict what Paul
said here. Furthermore, to say that God died is a blasphemy against
God. Who would run the world if God died? Paul believed that God does
not die.
Paul also said in that passage that God dwells in
unapproachable light — that no one has seen God or can see him. Paul
knew that many thousands of people had seen Jesus. Yet Paul said that
no one has seen God, because Paul was sure that Jesus is not God. This
is why Paul went on teaching that Jesus was not God, but that he was the
Christ (see Acts 9:22 and 18:5).
When he was in Athens , Paul
spoke of God as “The God who made the world and everything in it is the
Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.”
(Acts 17:24). Then he identified Jesus as “the man he (i.e. God) has
appointed.” (Acts 17:31).
Clearly, for Paul, Jesus was not God,
and he would be shocked to see his writings used for proving the
opposite of what he believed. Paul even testified in court saying: “I
admit that I worship the God of our fathers...” (Acts 24:14).
He
also said that Jesus is the servant of that God, for we read in Acts:
“The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has
glorified his servant Jesus.” (Acts 3:13).
For Paul, the Father
alone is God. Paul said that there is “one God and Father of all...”
(Ephesians 4:6). Paul said again: “...for us there is but one God, the
Father . . . and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ...” (1 Corinthians
8:6).
Paul’s letter to the Philippians (Philippians 2:6-11) is
often quoted as a proof that Jesus is God. But the very passage shows
that Jesus is not God. This passage has to agree with Isaiah 45:22-24
where God said that every knee should bow to God, and every tongue
should confess that righteousness and strength are in God alone. Paul
was aware of this passage, for he quoted it in Romans 14:11. Knowing
this, Paul declared: “I kneel before the Father.” (Ephesians 3:14).
The
letter to the Hebrews (Hebrews 1:6) says that the angels of God should
worship the Son. But this passage depends on Deuteronomy 32:43, in the
Septuagint version of the Old Testament. This phrase cannot be found in
the Old Testament used by Christians today, and the Septuagint version
is no longer considered valid by Christians. However, even the
Septuagint version, does not say worship the Son. It says let the
Angels of God worship God. The Bible insists that God alone is to be
worshipped: “When the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites, he
commanded them: ‘Do not worship any other gods or bow down to them,
serve them or sacrifice to them. But the LORD, who brought you up out
of Egypt with mighty power and outstretched arm, is the one you must
worship. To him you shall bow down and to him offer sacrifices. You
must always be careful to keep the decrees and ordinances, the laws and
commands he wrote for you. Do not worship other gods. Do not forget
the covenant I have made with you, and do not worship other gods.
Rather, worship the LORD your God; it is he who will deliver you from
the hand of all your enemies.’” (2 Kings 17:35-39).
Jesus, on
whom be peace, believed in this, for he also stressed it in Luke 4:8.
And Jesus too fell on his face and worshipped God (see Matthew 26:39).
Paul knew that Jesus worshipped God (see Hebrews 5:7). Paul taught that
Jesus will remain forever subservient to God (see 1 Corinthians 15:28).
Evidence from the Gospel of John:
The
Gospel of John, the fourth Gospel, was completed to its present form
some seventy years after Jesus was raised up to heaven. This Gospel in
its final form says one more thing about Jesus that was unknown from the
previous three Gospels — that Jesus was the Word of God. John means
that Jesus was God’s agent through whom God created everything else.
This is often misunderstood to mean that Jesus was God Himself. But
John was saying, as Paul had already said, that Jesus was God’s first
creature. In the Book of Revelation in the Bible, we find that Jesus
is: “the beginning of God’s creation” (Revelation 3:14, also see 1
Corinthians 8:6 and Colossians 1:15).
Anyone who says that the
Word of God is a person distinct from God must also admit that the Word
was created, for the Word speaks in the Bible saying: “The LORD brought
me forth as the first of his works...” (Proverbs 8:22).
This
Gospel, nevertheless, clearly teaches that Jesus is not God. If it did
not continue this teaching, then it would contradict the other three
Gospels and also the letters of Paul from which it is clearly
established that Jesus is not God. We find here that Jesus was not
co-equal with the Father, for Jesus said: “...the Father is greater than
I.” (John 14:28).
People forget this and they say that Jesus is
equal to the Father. Whom should we believe — Jesus or the people?
Muslims and Christians agree that God is self-existent. This means that
He does not derive his existence from anyone. Yet John tells us that
Jesus’ existence is caused by the Father. Jesus said in this Gospel:
“...I live because of the Father...” (John 6:57).
John tells us
that Jesus cannot do anything by his own when he quotes Jesus as saying:
“By myself I can do nothing...” (John 5:30). This agrees with what we
learn about Jesus from other Gospels. In Mark, for example, we learn
that Jesus performed miracles by a power which was not within his
control. This is especially clear from an episode in which a woman is
healed of her incurable bleeding. The woman came up behind him and
touched his cloak, and she was immediately healed. But Jesus had no
idea who touched him. Mark describes Jesus’ actions thus: “At once
Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in
the crowd and asked, ‘Who touched my clothes?’” (Mark 5:30). His
disciples could not provide a satisfactory answer, so Mark tells us:
“Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.” (Mark 5:32). This
shows that the power that healed the woman was not within Jesus’
control. He knew that the power had gone out of him, but he did not
know where it went. Some other intelligent being had to guide that
power to the woman who needed to be healed. God was that intelligent
being.
It is no wonder, then, that in Acts of the Apostles we read that it was God who did the miracles through Jesus (Acts 2:22).
God
did extraordinary miracles through others too, but that does not make
the others God (see Acts 19:11). Why, then, is Jesus taken for God?
Even when Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, he had to ask
God to do it. Lazarus’ sister, Martha, knew this, for she said to
Jesus: “I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” (John
11:22).
Martha knew that Jesus was not God, and John who reported
this with approval knew it also. Jesus had a God, for when he was
about to ascend to heaven, he said: “I am returning to my Father and
your Father, to my God and your God.” (John 20:17).
John was sure
that no one had seen God, although he knew that many people had seen
Jesus (see John 1:18 and 1 John 4:12). In fact Jesus himself told the
crowds, that they have never seen the Father, nor have they heard the
Father’s voice (John 5:37). Notice that if Jesus was the Father, his
statement here would be false. Who is the only God in John’s Gospel?
The Father alone.
Jesus testified this when he declared that the
God of the Jews is the Father (John 8:54). Jesus too confirmed that the
Father alone is the only true God (see John 17:1-3). And Jesus said to
his enemies: “...you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you
the truth that I heard from God.” (John 8:40). According to John,
therefore, Jesus was not God, and nothing John wrote should be taken as
proof that he was God — unless one wishes to disagree with John.
God and Jesus Are Two Separate Beings:
Many
people use certain verses of the Bible as proof that Jesus is God.
However, all of these verses, when understood in context, prove the
opposite!
For example, in Matthew 9:2, Jesus said to a certain
man, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.” Because of this, some
say that Jesus must be God since only God can forgive sins. However, if
you are willing to read just a few verses further, you will find that
the people “...praised God, who had given such authority to men.”
(Matthew 9:8). This shows that the people knew, and Matthew agrees,
that Jesus is not the only man to receive such authority from God.
Jesus
himself emphasized that he does not speak on his own authority (John
14:10) and he does nothing on his own authority, but he speaks only what
the Father has taught him (John 8:28). What Jesus did here was as
follows. Jesus announced to the man the knowledge Jesus received from
God that God had forgiven the man.
Notice that Jesus did not say,
“I forgive your sins,” but rather, “your sins are forgiven,” implying,
as this would to his Jewish listeners, that God had forgiven the man.
Jesus, then, did not have the power to forgive sins, and in that very
episode he called himself “the Son of Man” (Matthew 9:6).
John
10:30 is often used as proof that Jesus is God because Jesus said, “I
and the father are one.” But, if you read the next six verses, you will
find Jesus explaining that his enemies were wrong to think that he was
claiming to be God. What Jesus obviously means here is that he is one
with the Father in purpose. Jesus also prayed that his disciples should
be one just as Jesus and the Father are one. Obviously, he was not
praying that all his disciples should somehow merge into one individual
(see John 17:11 and 22). And when Luke reports that the disciples were
all one, Luke does not mean that they became one single human being, but
that they shared a common purpose although they were separate beings
(see Acts 4:32). In terms of essence, Jesus and the Father are two, for
Jesus said they are two witnesses (John 8:14-18). They have to be two,
since one is greater than the other (see John 14:28). When Jesus
prayed to be saved from the cross, he said: “Father, if you are willing,
take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” (Luke
22:42).
This shows that they had two separate wills, although
Jesus submitted his will to the will of the Father. Two wills mean two
separate individuals.
Furthermore, Jesus is reported to have
said: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). If
one of them forsook the other, then they must be two separate entities.
Again,
Jesus is reported to have said: “Father, into your hands I commit my
spirit.” (Luke 23:46). If the spirit of one can be placed into the
hands of another, they must be two separate beings.
In all of
these instances, Jesus is clearly subordinate to the Father. When Jesus
knelt down and prayed he obviously was not praying to himself (see Luke
22:41). He was praying to his God.
Throughout the New
Testament, the Father alone is called God. In fact, the titles “Father”
and “God” are used to designate one individual, not three, and never
Jesus. This is also clear from the fact that Matthew substituted the
title “Father” in the place of the title “God” in at least two places in
his Gospel (compare Matthew 10:29 with Luke 12:6, and Matthew 12:50
with Mark 3:35). If Matthew is right in doing so, then the Father alone
is God.
Was Jesus the Father? No! Because Jesus said: “And do
not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in
heaven.” (Matthew 23:9). So Jesus is not the Father, since Jesus was
standing on the earth when he said this.
The Quran seeks to bring
people back to the true faith that was taught by Jesus, and by his true
disciples who continued in his teaching. That teaching emphasized a
continued commitment to the first commandment that God is alone. In the
Quran, God directs Muslims to call readers of the Bible back to that
true faith. God have said in the Quran:
Say: “O people of the
Book (Christians and Jews)! Come to a word that is just between us and
you: that we shall worship none but God, and that we shall associate no
partners with Him, and that none of us shall take others as lords beside
God.” (Quran, 3:64)
By : E'en Khalid and Friends
