Red String Islam-Christian
JESUS CHRIST
part 7/7
Regard.
2Ti 3:16 All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.
Based on the Bible verse above, we stop for a moment in advance all sorts of complicated thought-complex accompanied by a fierce debate that will only create a line of argument and said rotating among religions.
Let us together look at and study the validity of the Bible as the word of God with a referral from a variety of viewpoints, with honesty, objectivity and scientific that the referral will be returned to the Qur'an which is recognized by the followers of Islam as the word of God, successor of the Torah of Moses and progressors gospel 'Jesus Christ.
In the first part, it is interesting to examine directly the main character in the world of Christianity, Jesus Christ or Yahshua the Messiah, or also known as the Prophet 'Isa Masih son of Mary in the followers of Muhammad.
The history of the birth of Jesus in the Bible is recorded in Matthew 1:18 is as follows:
"The birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: At the time of Mary, his mother, was engaged to Joseph, she was found on the Holy Spirit, before they lived as husband and wife."
(Matthew 1:18)
More details again, Luke describes the birth of Jesus in his Gospel:
"In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David; the virgin's name was Mary." (Luke 1: 26-27)
"When the angels went into the house of Mary, he said:" Hail, thou blessed, God is with you. "Mary was surprised to hear the word, then asked in his heart, what is meant." (Luke 1: 28-29)
The angel said to him: "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have come to the grace of God. Look, you will conceive and bear a son and you shall name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. the Lord God will give Him the throne of David, his ancestor, and he will be king over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom will never end. " (Luke 1: 30-33)
"Mary said to the angel," How shall this be, since I am a virgin? "The angel answered," The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. "
(Luke 1: 34-35)
"... For with God nothing is impossible. And Mary said," Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be to me according to your word. "Then the angel left her."
(Luke 1: 37-38)
In the article, Luke tells us, that in a city called Nazareth, God sent an angel named Gabriel (within Islam are called by the name of Gabriel) to preach to a virgin named Mary (in Islam known as Maryam) concerning the birth of a son, will be begotten by Mary.
Maria in this case surprised, how she is a virgin, do not have a husband could give birth to a child. But the angel wisely said that with God nothing is impossible to do with His power.
Here we are not going to discuss the status of the child in the last sentence that was brought by the angel to the Virgin Mary.
Let us now look at the context of the birth of this great man in the Koran that described in the second chapter, namely Al Imran and Surah Maryam.
The story is contained in Surah Maryam (sura 19) beginning at verse 16:
"And remember that these Maryam in the Book, that is, when he distanced himself from his family to a place in the east, and he organized a protection from them, and then we sent him the Spirit of Us, and he was transformed before him as a perfect man."
She (Mary) said: 'Verily, I seek refuge themselves to the Merciful from you, if you are a pious'
He (Gabriel) said: 'I have none other than the messenger of your Lord, to give you a holy son'
She (Mary) said: "How can I have a child, but one has never touched me, and I'm not an adulterer?"
He (Gabriel) said: "That's it. Your Lord says:" It is easy for me, because we wanted to make a sign for a man and as a mercy from Us, and it is a matter that has been assigned ".
So she (Mary) conceived him, and then he went to the womb to the place far away. "
In Surah Ali Imran (sura 3) beginning at verse 45 to verse 47:
"When the angel said:" O Mary, indeed Allah informs you that you will get one sentence from Him, his name is the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, glorious world and the hereafter and of those who approached. And he will speak to people in the cradle and when fully grown, and he was among the righteous "(QS. Ali Imran 3: 45-46)
She (Mary) said: "O my Lord, how can I have a child, and I have not been touched by man?". Allah says (through Gabriel): "Thus Allah creates what He wills. If Allah wills set something, then God just simply said to him:" Be ", and then he became."
(QS. Ali Imran 3:47)
"And as the apostle to the Children of Israel ..." (Qur'an, Ali Imran 3:49)
Remembrance of the verses, we find the statement, that as can be told by Luke, a virgin named Mary was visited by an angel to preach God's will be the birth of a child is sacred (holy) by the name of Christ, 'Isa son Mary, who will be honored by God as a prophet and messenger to the Children of Israel with signs of prophethood.
In comparison Luke confronted with verses of the Koran, we could find that the child to be born is because of the power of God, and the child was born in a state of sacred (holy)
The mention that Jesus alias' Isa al-still is a holy child who can not directly mean that he is a child of God.
Referred to as a child that is holy, is that the child is born not of the results of adultery as alleged by the Jews of that time on the Virgin Mary (m) and also a rebuttal on dakwahan Jews who have changed the content of the Torah containing obscenity Prophets and Messengers God them are the ancestors of Jesus, as King David and King Solomon.
As recounted by the book of II Samuel 11: 2-5 that Prophet David had committed adultery with Uriah's wife Bathsheba daughter of Eliam so pregnant and later in the same book in verse 14 to 17, King David sent a letter to Joab, in order to put Uriah kebarisan forward in an attempt to kill him so that the wife of Uriah the already ravished by David can dipersuntingnya as official wives.
In the Gospel of Matthew written history that Jesus was a descendant of the Prophet Solomon, while the first book of Kings chapter 11: 1-4 tell how the prophet Solomon is a greedy man woman and disobedience to God.
So it stands to reason at all that God through his angels, called the baby out of the Virgin Mary (m) are babies sacred (holy), that he was cleared of any slander Children of Israel, both concerning the adultery of his mother and slander about the adultery of ancestors.
If Jesus is still seen as God's children just because they were born not fatherless, should logically, Adam is much more accurately described as the son of God or God himself, the cause of the fatherless and without Adam without a mother, especially Adam was created in the image of God itself.
Ge 1:26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness ..."
Aside from that, consider the answers to the angels in Luke 1:35 and 1:37 that Jesus' birth was thanks to the power of God that there is no word impossible for him, returned corresponds to the Koran Surah Ali Imran verse 47 and Surah Maryam verse 21 we already wrote above.
The mention of the son of God against himself and the person of Jesus alias' Isa in the history of the Bible never even justify, even Jesus repeatedly stated that he is only human child and at the same time serves as God's messenger to the Children of Israel who have God.
To the assertion that Jesus also acknowledges that it bertuhankan to the one God:
"And Yahshua answered the him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel: Yahweh is our God, Yahweh is one". (Mark 12:29)
Jesus 'statement in the Bible verse above this can also be found in the holy book the Koran in Surah Ali Imran verse 51, where' Isa al-still the son of Mary said:
"Surely God is my Lord and your Lord ..." (Qur'an, 3:51)
Obviously, the individual books, the Bible and the Koran will declare the validity of Allah as the only God recognized by Jesus al-still.
"Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me." (Mark 9:37)
"I can not do anything of my own self; I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I did not follow my own will, but the will of him who sent me." (John 5:30)
Both of the above Bible verse is also a statement of Jesus himself as the messenger of God who are not able to do anything, even to itself even be permissible except by Allah.
It also has the equivalent of fitting once in the Qur'an, as in Surah Ali Imran verse 49 and Surah Ar-Ra'd verse 38 below:
And the Messenger to the Children of Israel: "Behold, I bring to you a miracle from your Lord, I can make for you out of clay as such a bird; then I blow him, and it becomes a bird by the permission of GOD; and I heal the blind and the hairpiece; and give life to the dead by the permission of GOD; and I could be telling you what you eat and what you store in your homes. Verily in this is a sign for you, if you believe. " (Qur'an, 3:49)
"There is no power for a messenger to bring a clue, but with God's permission." (Qur'an, 13:38)
That Jesus was a prophet of God, was also recognized by a woman of Samaria who have a dialogue with him as narrated by John in his Gospel in chapter 4:19:
"The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet."
(John 4:19)
That Jesus should be recognized as a human child:
"Jesus heard that he had been driven out by them. Then he met with him and said:" Do you believe in the Son of Man? "(John 9:37)
"I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God."
(Luke 12: 5)
Jesus turned him referred to as God's children, and he says he is the son of man.
But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to him: "For the sake of the living God, that thou tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God, or not." Jesus answered, "You have said it. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven."
(Matthew 26: 63-64)
And after a day during the session assembled the elders of the Jewish nation and the chief priests and scribes, and they expose him to their council, saying, "If You are the Christ, tell us." Jesus answered, "Even if I tell you, you will not believe; and even if I asked something to you, you will not answer. From now on the Son of Man seated at the right hand of God the Almighty." They say all: "Then, you then the Son of God?" Jesus replied, "You say that I am the Son of God." Then they said, "Why do we need further testimony? We have heard it from his own mouth." (Luke 22: 66-71)
How obvious denial of Jesus, he never approved of the title man who says he as the son of God and he confirms that he is only human child. Even if people refer to it as a child of God, then flung a sentence that they are already saying that so, but he did not say it, but as a mere human child.
The Qur'an calls for:
And when Allah says: "O 'Isa, son of Maryam, is there you say to the people:" Take me and my mother two god but Allah? ". Jesus replied:" Glory to Thee, is not appropriate for me to say what it is not my right. If I ever say it then surely you already know what is in me, and I did not know what that is in thee. Truly You are the Knower of things that are unseen-unseen, I never told them except what You commanded me, namely: 'Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord, "and I was a witness against them.". (QS. Al-Ma' idah 5: 116-117)
Additionally rebuttal will be the deity of Jesus al-still this can also be found in Surah 4: 171, 5: 72-73-75.
Thus how many similarities revealed by the Qur'an and the Bible regarding the status of Jesus alias' Isa al-Masih's.
On one side of the other, the Bible statement would mention the sonship of God that is in Jesus, we should take in a figurative sense to draw a common thread among other Bible verses.
The verse that is quite often used as a foundation will be the divinity of Jesus by the Christians some of which are as follows:
"But if I do it and you did not believe in me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the Father." (John 10:38)
This verse we can pull a red thread with a paragraph contained in John 17:21 and 23:
"That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."
"I in them and thou in me, that they may be one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them even as you loved me."
The phrase "the Father in me", and his was one with God and Jesus have a sense that God is always with Jesus and his disciples at anytime and anywhere, as well as sayings of the Prophet Muhammad as: "Fear not, verily Allah is with us." In the Qur'an also said:
"Allah is with those who are patient." (Qur'an, 2: 153 and 8:46)
Even the Sufi poets often recite "Dihatiku no God", this sentence does not mean that God is housed inside the saint himself, this analogy we can also nisbatkan on Jesus' words, for God does not need the space, time and place.
In addition, to increase the completeness of explanation that the child of God which is applied to Jesus was just a figure of speech, we pull another common thread between verses Bible.
The sentence of God's children can also be found in many other Bible verses that refer to individuals or groups other than Jesus.
David was called as the eldest child of God by Psalm 89:27
Jacob aka Israel was the eldest child of God is based on Exodus 4:22 23
Afraim is the eldest child of God, based on Jeremiah 31: 9
Adam called the son of God based on Luke 3:38
Furthermore, also noted the absence of children of God in:
Genesis 6: 2 and 6: 4,
The Book of Job 1: 6 and Job 2: 1 and Job 38: 7
Even one of the criteria to become children of God is as narrated by Matthew chapter 5, verse 9 and also John, chapter 1 verse 12:
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."
"Yet to all who received him, he power to become children of God, to those who believed in his name".
Thus, as a final conclusion of all this is: that which is called as the son of God was a man who loved or blessed by God commonly known as the beloved of God or those who obey the Lord's commandments.
In this case, God revealed his word in the Qur'an as follows:
"And they said: 'Allah has a son." Glory be to Him!
In fact, He is the one who has nothing is in the heavens and the earth. "
(Qur'an, 2: 116)
They said: "God has a son." Holy God almighty; He is the Rich; His are all things in the heavens and what is on earth. You do not have knowledge about this. Pantaskah say of Allah what you do not know? (Qur'an, 10:68)
And it has been said, the Jews and the Christians: "We are children of God and His loved ones". Ask: "Then, why did God punish you for your sins?" You are human (regular) that has been created. "(Qur'an, 5:18)
"Say: He is Allah, the One. Allah depend on. Do not litter and do not begotten. And there is nothing for him equality with anything." (Surat al-Ikhlas 112: 1-4).
Regards,