Jesus The Muslim Prophet
History Speaks of a Human Messiah Not a Divine Christ
 

       

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The Prophethood of Jesus in the Qur'an and History Versus the Divinty of The Christ in Christianity:

The human Jesus of the Qur’an

Scriptural evidence that Jesus was not divine

Paul’s deification of Jesus and invention of Christianity

Historical problems in the Christian “sonship of God”

The problematic doctrine of Trinity

The original meaning of “son of man”

Jesus introduced himself as a prophet of Islam and the awaited Messiah. Like the many Muslim prophets before him, his core message was to call people to worship God. He also tried to reform the practice of Judaism which had been corrupted over the centuries and brought the good news about the coming of Prophet Muhammad.

 

Jesus spoke about one God. He never taught that he or anybody else was or could be divine. He even called himself “son of man” to pre-empt the attempts to make him divine after him.

 

It was Paul who started and promoted the concept that Jesus was man and god. He put Jesus’ divinity at the heart of his theology, creating a religion, Christianity, that Jesus would not have recognized. The deification of Jesus was developed further by later theologians, leading to a Jesus that cannot be distinguished from God. This is the Jesus of the last of the four Gospels, John.

 

The different Jesuses that early Christianity created can be seen by comparing the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke with John, Paul’s writings, and other New Testament books. Putting all twenty seven books in one volume cannot hide the fact that they do not promote one Jesus. In fact, inconsistency can be clearly seen even within most of these books, including each of the four Gospels.

 

This book contrasts the human Jesus of the Qur’an with the divine Jesus of Christian sources. It shows that the Qur’anic Jesus is the one that fits in history.

 

This focused study is for both the general reader and the expert. This easy-to-read and enjoyable book is for anyone interested in the question of the nature of Jesus in various scriptures and historical sources.

 

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Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I: The Muslim Jesus
1. Muslim Messenger and Prophet
  Islam
  Jesus the Prophet
  Jesus the Messenger
  The Human Nature of the Prophets
  “Prophet” Jesus in the Gospels
  Jesus’ Mission

2. The Human Historical Messiah
  The Human Jewish Messiah
  The Divine Christ
  The Human Masih of the Qur’an

Part II: “Son of Mary” Not “Son of God”
3. The Non-Divine Jewish “Sonship of God”

4. The Christian “Sonship of God”
  Christian Sons of God
  The Unique Son of God
  The Eternal Son of John
  When Did Jesus’ Sonship of God become Special?
  Sonship of God, Messiahship, and Miracle Working
  Sonship of God and Blasphemy

5. The Qur’an’s Rejection of the “Sonship of God”
  The Oneness of God
  No Offspring of God
  Jesus’ False “Sonship of God”

6. Son of Man
  The Unhistorical Link Between “Son of Man” and “Messiah”
  Jesus’ Use of the Term “Son of Man”

Part III: A Divine Theology for a Non-Divine Jesus
7. Pauline Christianity
  Paul’s Unhistorical Jesus
  The Doctrine of the Atonement
  Johannine Theology: The Ultimate Fruit of Pauline Christianity
  The Heterogeneous Scriptural Sources of Christianity

8. The Trinity
  The Development of the Doctrine of the Trinity
  The Fallacy of the Trinity

9. Jesus: A Man Created by God and a God Created by Humans

Appendix A. The Qur’anic Verses that Refute Jesus’ Divinity

References

Index of Qur’anic Verses

Index of Biblical Passages

Index of Names and Subjects