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It is sad that many Christians do not know that Jesus, peace be upon him, holds a very
high position within Islam. Unlike ortho- dox Judaism, Islam considers Jesus to be the
promised Messiah, a word from God, born of the Virgin Mary to bring a new covenant to
the people of Israel.!
Nevertheless, the Qur'an, the only book in Islam, leaves no room to accept concepts
developed by Church theologians after the departure of Jesus, such as thesonship of
Jesus (accepted at the Council of Nicaea on May 20, 325) or the idea of adding the
Holy Spirit as the "third head" for God (developed as the concept of the Trinity in
the Constantinopolitan Creed of 381).
In fact both concepts (the sonship of Jesus and the Trinity) tend to negate many
clear verses in the old and new testament.. For example:
Hear, 0 Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord." (Deuteronomy 6:4)
....that ye may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He: before Me there
was no God, neither shall there be after Me. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside Me
there is rio sav- ior. (Isaiah 43:10-11)
And Jesus answered him:
The first of an the commandments is: Hear, 0 Israel: The Lord
our God is one Lord. (Mark 12:29)
. . . We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that. there is none other
God but one. (I Corinthians 8:4)
Given these verses, one should be careful 11ot to take the verse in John 1: I
literally because it could easily have been mis- translated from the Aramaic into
the Greek and should read "and the word was God's.
It should be noted here that in the Greek language {bees is God while theeu
means God's (see any Greek dictionary or see the book Muhammad in the Bible by
Professor Abdul Ahad Dawud, former bishop of Uramiah, p. 16).
On more logical grounds, insisting that Jesus is God or son of God as the main
article of faith reduces We 'natural' human instinct to believe in a Creater
(it is 'natural' because every human being feels that anything that is organized
must have an organizer) from believing in an absolute Greater of the universe who
is felt naturally into having to believe in a given historical event that is limited
in both time and space.
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