بسم الله الرحمـن الرحيم
Both
the religions of Christianity and Islam claim Jesus of Nazareth as their own.
Of course, Christianity may seem to have a more compelling case on the surface,
but consider the issue with an open heart and mind and you will come to the
realization that it was the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ who truly testified about the real and
historical Jesus of Nazareth, and not Paul of Tarsus or the Church fathers. ‘Orthodox’
Christianity proclaims that Jesus is ‘God the Son’, the second person of the
triune ‘Godhead’, simultaneously fully divine and fully human. Of course Jesus
himself never described himself in such terms. Islam considers Jesus nothing more
than a Prophet of God, like any of the multitude of prophets in ancient Israel
that preceded him. Yet we rarely, if ever, hear a Christian refer to Jesus as a
‘prophet’. This despite the fact that the Christian Gospels themselves quote
Jesus as saying about himself: “A prophet is not without honor except in his
own town, among his relatives and in his own home” (Mark 6:4; Matthew 13:57;
Luke 4:24). Jesus uttered these words, which have multiple corroboration, after
preaching in the synagogue of his hometown Nazareth yet being rejected by the
people there. Incidentally, these words are prophetic in pointing to the
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ who
was rejected by his own people and his own relatives in Mecca after proclaiming
his prophecy, but was welcomed and accepted by the people of Yathrib [Medina]
to whom he emigrated to. Now it is quite odd that Jesus refers to himself as a ‘prophet’,
and repeatedly as the ‘son of man’, yet orthodox Christians believe he was God
Himself, incarnate in human flesh. A prophet by definition is someone who is
not God but speaks on behalf of God having been appointed by God and granted a
revelation from Him to that effect.
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