Qurán
Sure 4, 157. That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah.";- But they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:-Sure 4, 158. 158. Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise;-
Sure 4, 159. 159. And there is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him before his death; and on the Day of Judgment he will be a witness against them;-
Sure 5, 17. Sure 5 17. They disbelieved indeed those that say that Allah is Christ the son of Mary. Say: "Who then hath the least power against Allah, if His will were to destroy Christ the son of Mary, his mother, and every one that is on the earth? For to Allah belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between. He createth what He pleaseth. For Allah hath power over all things."
In short, this Allah is not the God of the Jews or the Christians. Allah is in fact a Meccan Moon god idol. To confess that Allah is the same God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses is to deny Jehovah God, who is revealed in the Lord Jesus the Christ!
The Qur’an does not deny Passion
Week. Supposedly, as Jesus was on his way to the cross, God tricked everyone
by putting someone else in his place and by taking Jesus to heaven. In the
final analysis, Muslims have a theological argument against the cross and
not an historical one. They reason like this: First, God is almighty.
Secondly, he sent Jesus into the world as a great revealer of His law and
will. And since God would never allow his prophet to be crucified,
therefore, Jesus was not crucified.
As Muhammad was persecuted there is
nothing unusual about a prophet like Jesus being persecuted. Muhammad had to
flee for his life. There is such a thing as the suffering of Muhammad and of the
Muslim community that had recognized his mission as the Messenger of Allah. Some
sought refuge in Ethiopia. And then, in 622, he and the rest of his followers
migrated to Medina. That marked the beginning of the Islamic (lunar) calendar.
So the idea of suffering is part and parcel of the early Muslim Umma. But the
idea of complete defeat or failure of a divine messenger is unthinkable. The
Jews have this problem also. How could they accept somebody who was crucified?
So we have the Qur’anic account of Good Friday, where God rescues our Lord from
death at the eleventh hour.
Muslims come from a religious
background that has always denied both the historicity and necessity of the
cross. Their Holy Book tells them that this central event in the life of the
Messiah did not take place, and that someone else was crucified. Allah
rescued the Messiah and thwarted the evil plans of the Jews negating the
entire New Testament of the Gospel.
As some Muslims claim, some other
person was crucified. In other words, when it comes to the heart of the
Christian message, Muhammad put in his veto. And this has marked his followers
for the last fourteen hundred years. Muslims still veto the cross, even though
the rest of mankind, regardless of their religious commitment acknowledges the
historicity of that event!
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