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Jesus As the Son of God
Is Jesus the Son of God? Matthew 3:17 could be used
by some Christians to support the divine Sonship of
Jesus. If Matthew 3:17, "And Lo a voice for heaven,
saying, this is my beloved son in whom I am well
pleased," is used to support divine Sonship, then
there should be no other verse that contradicts or
gives equal divine Sonship to another person or
persons in the Old or New Testament. However, many
references were found in the Old and New Testaments
that mentioned someone other than Jesus as having a
divine Sonship to God. See Exodus 4:22:
"Israel is my son, even my firstborn." II Samuel 7:14
and I Chronicles 22:10: "...and he shall be my son
(Solomon)." Jeremiah 31:9: "...and Ephraim is my
firstborn." Also, Psalm 2:7.
The word "Son" must not be accepted literally because
God addresses many of his chosen servants as son and
sons. The Jews have also claimed Ezra to be the Son of
God. The New Testament Greek words used for "son"
(pias and paida, which mean servant or son in the
sense of servant) are translated as son in reference
to Jesus and as servant in reference to others in some
translations of the Bible.
Further, the term "Father" as used by Jesus
corresponds more closely to the term Rabb, i.e. One
who nourishes and sustains, so that in Jesus’
doctrine, God is "Father" – Nourisher and Sustainer –
of all men. The New Testament also interprets "son of
God" to be mystical: "For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." (Romans
8:14). This mystical suggestion is further supported
with Jesus being called the only begotten Son of God.
In Psalm 2:7, the Lord said to David:
"...Thou art my son: this day have I begotten thee."
Does this mean that God had two sons? Jesus also said
that God is not only his Father but also your Father
(Matthew 5:45, 48). Luke 3:38 says:
"...Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the Son
of God."
Who is mentioned in Hebrews 7:3 as like unto the Son
of God? It is Melchisedec, King of Salem, as mentioned
in Hebrews 7:1. He (Melchisedec) is more unique than
Jesus or Adam. Why is he not preferred to be the Son
of God? Moreover, Adam did not have a mother or
father, but was the first human being created by God
and in the likeness of God to exist in the Garden of
Eden and on earth. Wouldn’t this give more rights to
Adam to be called the Son of God in its truest
meaning?
I would like to share with you an obvious
contradiction between John 3:16, Luke 10:25-28 and
Matthew 19:16-17. John 3:16 reads:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten, Son, that whosoever believeth in him should
not perish, but have everlasting life."
Now let’s read Luke 10:25-28:
And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted
him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit
eternal life? He said unto him, what is written in the
law? How readest Thou? And he answering said, Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with
all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. And he said
unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and Thou
shalt live.
These verses tell us that the inheritance of eternal
life is for anyone who believes and worships no other
God, but the One True God. Luke 10:25-28 agrees with
Matthew 19:16-17 which says;
"And behold, one came and said to him (Jesus), Good
teacher, what good things shall I do that I may have
eternal life? So he (Jesus) said to him, ‘Why do you
call me good? – No one is good but One that is, God.
But if you want to enter into eternal life, keep the
commandments."
There is no commandment that says to worship Jesus,
but there that tells us to worship God alone.
In Luke 4:41, Jesus refused to be called the Son of
God by demons. Do you think that Jesus would rebuke
the demons, or anyone else for that matter, for
telling the truth? Unquestionably, no! Jesus rebuked
the demons because they were saying something false by
calling him the Son of God. Also, if the demons knew
that Jesus was the Christ, for Jesus to shut them up
because they called him the Christ is a contradiction
to Jesus’ mission.
In Luke 9:20 & 21, Jesus said unto his disciples:
"But who say ye that I am? Peter answered saying, "The
Christ of God, and Jesus straightly charged them and
commanded them to tell no man that thing."
Furthermore, verses like John 3:2, John 6:14, John
7:40, Matthew 21:11, Luke 7:16 and 24:19 confirm that
Jesus accepted the title of teacher, Prophet and
called himself the son of man in Matthew 8:20, 12:40,
17:9 & 12, 26:24, Luke 9:26, 22:48, 22:69, and 24:7.
The most conclusive verse that says Jesus is the son
(servant) of man is Mark 14:26 where Jesus is
mentioning the Day of Reckoning. Jesus specifically
said we would see the son of man, not the Son of God,
sitting in the right hand of power, and coming in the
clouds of heaven.
The act of begetting is a physical act and such act is
against God’s nature. The Qur’an 19:35 says:
"It is not befitting to (the majesty of) Allah that He
should beget a son. Glory be to Him! When He
determines a matter He only says to it "Be," and it
is." (Maryam 19:35)
The teachings of Jesus as the Son of God were not
preached by Jesus nor accepted by Jesus, but were
taught by Paul as supported in Acts 9:20:
"And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues,
that he is the Son of God."
Did Jesus ever claim to be God or say, "Here am I,
your God, worship me"? The answer is no. For there is
no single, unequivocal statement in the Bible whereby
Jesus himself declares, "I am God, therefore worship
me." Virtually all of the more than two thousand
verses of the epistles of Paul are his own
fabrications to include Romans 9:5 that says,
depending upon which Bible you read:
"...Christ came, who is overall, the eternally blessed
God."
Christians should know that Paul himself mentions his
own gospel, not Jesus, in his epistle to the Romans
when he says in Romans 2:16:
"In the day when God will judge the secrets of men by
Jesus Christ, according to my gospel."
In face, the Pauline epistle to the Romans serves as
the foundation of today’s Christianity. Thus, it is
the Christians whose efforts will be wasted in this
life as they think they were acquiring good by their
works when they attribute partners to God, as stated
in Chapter 18:103-106 of the Qur’an:
"Say: Shall we tell you of those who lost most in
respect of their deeds? Those whose efforts have been
wasted in this life, while they thought that they were
acquiring good by their works?" they are those who
deny the Signs of their Lord and the fact of their
having to meet Him (in the Hereafter): vain will be
their works, nor shall We, on the Day of judgment,
give them any weight. That is their reward, Hell;
because they rejected Faith, and took My Signs and My
Messengers by way of jest.
(Al-Kahf 18:103-106)
Indeed, it is so strange and ironic, knowing that none
of Paul’s epistle to the Romans, more than 430 verses,
were ever formulated by Jesus. Paul should have made
direct reference to the pristine teachings of Jesus,
if only the former claim for apostleship by divine
inspiration was indeed true. Instead, large parts of
his epistles’ Biblical quotations (notably those in
the Epistle to the Romans) were taken from the Old
Testament – Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, 2
Samuel, 1 Kings, Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah, Ezekiel and
Hosea. His epistles were, indeed a product of tedious
efforts, but that does not make Paul far better than
any of the other men who authored the Bible, nor does
it make him a Prophet.
Other practices that were adopted under Paul included
the following: the Roman sun-day as the Christian
Sabbath; the traditional birthday of the Sun-god as
the birthday of Jesus; the emblem of the sun-god (the
cross of light) to be the emblem of Christians; and,
the incorporation of all the ceremonies which were
performed at the Sun-god’s birthday celebrations.
As I come to a close concerning the position of
Christ, I would like to ask my Christian reader bow
down and pray earnestly to God and ask Him to invoke
His curse on you, your wife, your sons, and your
daughters if what you believe about Christ (Christ is
God, Son of God or part of a trinity of God) are
false. Likewise, I have learned that if you asked a
Muslim to earnestly pray to God to invoke His curse on
him, his wife, his sons, and his daughters if what he
is saying about Christ (Prophet, Messenger of God, A
Word from God) are false, the Muslims are firm in
their faith knowing that Christ is not God, nor the
Son of God and nor part of a trinity of God. This
exercise of asking God to invoke His curse on you and
your family may sound a bit cruel, but it would prove
two points: (1) you would know that you are on the
wrong path; and, (2) it would put you on the right
path.
The Crucifixion and Atonement
A very significant event in the Christian doctrine is
the Crucifixion of Jesus. Before talking about the
many controversies surrounding the Crucifixion, it
should be mentioned that it was a gospel of Paul’s
which professed the Crucifixion/Resurrection of Jesus
(II Timothy 2:8):
"Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was
raised from the dead according to my gospel."
In addition, the gospel of the resurrection in Mark
16:9-20 was already removed from the text by gospel
writers in the 1952 edition of the Revised Standard
Version and then, for some reasons, restored in the
1971 edition. In many Bibles, if not removed, it is
printed in small print or between two brackets and
with commentary (See the Revised Standard Version, New
American Bible and New World Translation of the Holy
Scriptures).
The traditional biblical account of Jesus’ Crucifixion
is that he was arrested and crucified by the orders
and plans of the chief priest and Jewish elders. This
account was denied in the 1960’s by the highest
Catholic Christian authority, the Pope. He issued a
statement in which he said the Jews had nothing to do
with Jesus’ Crucifixion.
Did any one of the disciples or the writers of the
Gospel see the Crucifixion or the Resurrection? No! In
Mark 14:50, it says the disciples forsook Jesus and
fled. Even Peter forsook Jesus after the cock crowed
three times as Jesus foretold:
(Matthew 26:75) And Peter remembered the word of
Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou
shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept
bitterly.
The most likely persons whom may have witnessed this
moment in Jesus’ life were Mary Magdalene, Mary the
mother of James and Joses, the mother of Zebedee’s
children and other women (Matthew 27:55-56). However,
there is no statement or account in the Gospels from
those women as to what they saw or heard.
The disciple(s) found the sepulchre where Jesus was
laid down, empty, and made the conclusion that he was
resurrected because the disciples and other witnesses
saw him alive after the alleged Crucifixion. Nobody
saw the moment he was resurrected. Jesus himself
stated that he did not die on the cross in Luke
24:36-41, as explained in the following paragraphs.
Early Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene went to the
sepulchre, which was empty. She saw somebody standing
who looked like a gardener. She recognized him after a
conversation to be Jesus and wanted to touch him.
Jesus said (John 20:17):
"Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my
Father..."
Now read Luke 24:36-41:
"And as they (disciples) thus spoke, Jesus himself
stood in the midst of them and saith unto them, Peace
be unto you. But they were terrified and frightened,
and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And he said
unto them, Why are you troubled? And why so thoughts
arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet,
that it is I myself: handle me end see; for a spirit
hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when
he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his
feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and
wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
And they gave him a piece of boiled fish and of a
honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them."
Does a spiritual or dead body have a need to eat food?
Jesus eating of food was to prove to the disciples
that he was not a spirit, but rather, he was still
alive and not dead.
Jesus being alive and not dead is further supported in
his own prophecy (Matthew 12:40):
"For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the
whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days
and three nights in the heart of the earth."
Did Jesus fulfill this miracle? Christians would say
"yes," because Jesus died and rose three days later
according to Luke 24:36 and Matthew 20:19, to name a
few verses. However, in line with the miracle of Jonah
and according to the Bible, Jesus only spent one day
and two nights in the sepulchre, and not three days
and three nights as he prophesied.
Jesus was put in the sepulchre just before sunset on
Friday (Good Friday) and was found missing before
sunrise on Sunday (Easter). If we were to
s-t-r-e-t-c-h the time frame a bit, one may say that
Jesus spent three days in the earth, but there is no
way and I repeat, no way, that Jesus spent three
nights in the earth. We must not forget that the
Gospels are explicit in telling us that it was "before
sunrise" on Sunday morning that Mary Magdalene went to
the tomb of Jesus and found it empty.
Consequently, there are some inconsistencies as to
whether Jesus fulfilled his own prophecy. Whether he
was actually crucified, or if the day (Good Friday) of
his alleged Crucifixion is wrong. Another significant
point to mention is that Jonah was alive in the belly
of the whale. The Christians says, Jesus was dead in
the belly of the earth/tomb, and this contradicts
Jesus’ own prophecy. Jesus said (Luke 11:30):
"As Jonah was...so shall the Son of man be."
If Jonah was alive, so was Jesus.
One critical event that took place before the alleged
Crucifixion was the prayer of Jesus to God for help.
Luke 22:42:
"Saying Father if thou be willing, remove this cup (of
death) from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine be
done."
Jesus’ prayer not to die on the cross was accepted by
God according to Luke 22:43 and Hebrews 5:7.
Therefore, if all of Jesus’ prayer were accepted by
God, including not to die on the cross, how could he
have died on the cross?
In Matthew 27:46, it states that while Jesus was on
the cross, he said:
"Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani (My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me?).
If Jesus said these words, it represents a blatant
declaration of disbelief according to all theological
authorities. This is a great insult as such words
could only come from an unbeliever in God. Further, it
is incredible that such words should come from a
Prophet of God, because God never breaks His promise
and His Prophets never complained against His promise,
especially when the Prophet’s mission is understood.
It could be said that whoever relates that this
statement was said by a Prophet (Jesus), is a
disbeliever.
Muslims believe, as the Qur’an states, Jesus was not
crucified. It was the intention of his enemies to put
him to death on the cross, but Allah saved him from
their plot. Qur’an 4:157:
"That they (Jews) said boasting, "We killed Christ
Jesus, the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah, but
they (Jews) killed him not, nor crucified him..."
(An Nisa 4:157)
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