WHO IS JESUS?

 

Is Jesus God?

Let me start of by saying here that I am not using the Koran to prove the bible right.  I am only using it to show how once people, once they are made to believe or disbelieve something will close their minds to what is obvious.

Now, I happened to watch some videos on debates between Christians and Muslims on who Jesus really is.  Christians generally know that Jesus is God.  I say, “generally” because some “Christians” are really not Christians at all and they don't know.  Some inherited the title of Christian as a culture and do not live the life of a Christian neither do they obey the commandments of Jesus, nor do they read nor understand the bible and its teachings.  Other “Christians” are actually cults – organizations that ride on Christianity to make money for the leadership, “having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof"  2Ti 3:5.

We know that part of God which the His Word, became a man and dwelt in this world, for the bible tells us “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” John 1:1;  “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,” Joh 1:14.  And in this, the Koran does admit that Jesus is the Word of God, using the term Kalimatullah (Koran 4:17).  God has no beginning, and the Word of God has no beginning either, being eternal.  God's word was uncreated for God is uncreated, for there was never a time that God was without a word,  and therefore Jesus, the Word of God has no beginning.

We know too, that Jesus did tell us He is God incarnate as a “Son of Man”, God being born into this world through the body of a virgin.  He also made various statements indicating His Godhood, such as His sayings:

(a)        “If you do not believe I am He, you will die in your sins” ( for who can forgive sins in heaven but God?)

(b)        “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father”

(c)        “ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end”

(d)        “Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” in Matt 4:7, when satan was tempting Him.

There are many, many, many more.  Now, as you read you must always remember that the bible already existed some 600 years before Islam was founded.  So, the Islamic scriptures were written more than half a century after the bible recorded what Jesus said.  It is not as if what Jesus said was not put into the bible after the Islamic scriptures were written just to frustrate Muslim attacks against Christianity.  We must also remember that the Christian scriptures do not contain one single verse attacking the veracity of the Islamic scriptures.  It is just that despite what the bible has recorded much earlier, the Islamic scriptures happened to fulfill or contradict.

The Muslim Objection To Jesus Being God

But Muslims have a problem with these sayings for they have been brainwashed to believe that Jesus is a mere man and a great prophet of God.  Muslims charge that Christians blaspheme God by making a man by the name of Jesus into God.  Muslims simply cannot understand that an omnipotent God has the power to come into this earth as a man.  They do not understand the meaning of “omnipotent”; for omnipotent in the Muslim mind comes with the limitations they set for God.  So, omnipotence in the Muslim mind is not omnipotent at all, for it is the Muslim man sets the boundaries of power for God. Their God apparently cannot have the power to come into this world simply because he, the man doesn’t agree to it.  Sure, Jesus is a prophet for is not God also capable of being a prophet as well even when He has taken on the body of a man?

Sometimes though, I do not blame the Muslims for not understanding for 2 reasons.  Firstly, the bible reveals to us “Rom 8:5  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.”  Secondly, neither do the Christian cultists, being also after the flesh, though they read the bible understand this mystery of God: that God Himself should come into this world.

And further, deeply entrenched into their mind is an abhorrence that Jesus is called the Son of God, for the fleshly Muslim mind cannot understand how God can have a son, unless God had sex with a woman; and to say so is an insult to God.  Little does the Muslim man know that we agree that God did not have sex with Mary, a virgin to cause her to conceive, otherwise would she still have had been a virgin giving birth to Jesus.  All the bible says in Luke 1:35 is that the Holy Spirit “shall come upon” her “and the power of the Highest shall overshadow” her causing her to conceive.  It was not sex.  And note also that Jesus was to “be called” the Son of God.  It is a title, that’s all.  Furthermore, all who believe in Jesus are given the right to become sons of God, with a small “s”, Jesus being of the firstborn status.  That’s is not hard to understand, if the mind is not frozen stiff and the heart hardened.

Why Write This Article?

This article is not meant to convince any Muslim that he is wrong.  In the first place, he has decided not to be convinced; and even if he is convinced, he will unconvinced himself for he knows the price is too high for him to pay should he ever reject what he has been taught.  He will lose his entire social support and will face such persecutions from his society and family that he will find life hard to live. Rather, this is to let Christians know that we can fully trust in what the bible has revealed about Jesus. We can even prove that the Muslims themselves are actually denying the truth in their own scriptures ( not that we as Christians need to rely on their scriptures to prove our faith ) when they reject Jesus is God.  How so?

Jesus Identified Himself With The Names of Allah

Let us check what the Muslims know about Allah ( i.e. God ) from the 99 names of Allah and see if Jesus has identified Himself as Allah through some of these names.  Christians should not be surprised because we know all along that Jesus has said and done things that only God can be and do:

             

Remember, 600 years earlier, Jesus had identified Himself as God, and 600 years later the Koran, confirmed 20 of these claims :            

	In the Koran, God is identified as:			What Jesus said and Did
	Arabic		English Meaning
1	Allah (الله)	The Greatest Name
2	Ar-Rahman (الرحمن)	The All-Compassionate
3	Ar-Rahim (الرحيم)	The All-Merciful
4	Al-Malik (الملك)	The Absolute Ruler
5	Al-Quddus (القدوس)	The Pure One
6	As-Salam (السلام)	The Source of Peace		Joh 14:27  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you
7	Al-Mu'min (المؤمن)	The Inspirer of Faith		Joh 12:44 Then Jesus cried out, "When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.
8	Al-Muhaymin (المهيمن)	The Guardian
9	Al-Aziz (العزيز)	The Victorious
10	Al-Jabbar (الجبار)	The Compeller
11	Al-Mutakabbir (المتكبر)	The Greatest
12	Al-Khaliq (الخالق)	The Creator
13	Al-Bari' (البارئ)	The Maker of Order
14	Al-Musawwir (المصور)	The Shaper of Beauty
15	Al-Ghaffar (الغفار)	The Forgiving
16	Al-Qahhar (القهار)	The Subduer
17	Al-Wahhab (الوهاب)	The Giver of All
18	Ar-Razzaq (الرزاق)	The Sustainer
19	Al-Fattah (الفتاح)	The Opener
20	Al-`Alim (العليم)	The Knower of All
21	Al-Qabid (القابض)	The Constrictor
22	Al-Basit (الباسط)	The Reliever
23	Al-Khafid (الخافض)	The Abaser
24	Ar-Rafi (الرافع)	The Exalter
25	Al-Mu'izz (المعز)	The Bestower of Honors
26	Al-Mudhill (المذل)	The Humiliator
27	As-Sami (السميع)	The Hearer of All
28	Al-Basir (البصير)	The Seer of All
29	Al-Hakam (الحكم)	The Judge		Joh 8:16  And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
30	Al-`Adl (العدل)	The Just
31	Al-Latif (اللطيف)	The Subtle One
32	Al-Khabir (الخبير)	The All-Aware		Mar 2:8 Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, "Why are you thinking these things?
33	Al-Halim (الحليم)	The Forbearing
34	Al-Azim (العظيم)	The Magnificent
35	Al-Ghafur (الغفور)	The Forgiver and Hider of Faults
36	Ash-Shakur (الشكور)	The Rewarder of Thankfulness
37	Al-Ali (العلى)	The Highest
38	Al-Kabir (الكبير)	The Greatest
39	Al-Hafiz (الحفيظ)	The Preserver
40	Al-Muqit (المقيت)	The Nourisher
41	Al-Hasib (الحسيب)	The Accounter
42	Al-Jalil (الجليل)	The Mighty
43	Al-Karim (الكريم)	The Generous
44	Ar-Raqib (الرقيب)	The Watchful One
45	Al-Mujib (المجيب)	The Responder to Prayer		Joh 14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.
46	Al-Wasi (الواسع)	The All-Comprehending
47	Al-Hakim (الحكيم)	The Perfectly Wise
48	Al-Wadud (الودود)	The Loving One
49	Al-Majid (المجيد)	The Majestic One
50	Al-Ba'ith (الباعث)	The Resurrector		Joh 11:25  Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
51	Ash-Shahid (الشهيد)	The Witness
52	Al-Haqq (الحق)	The Truth		Joh 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
53	Al-Wakil (الوكيل)	The Trustee
54	Al-Qawiyy (القوى)	The Possessor of All Strength
55	Al-Matin (المتين)	The Forceful One
56	Al-Waliyy (الولى)	The Governor
57	Al-Hamid (الحميد)	The Praised One
58	Al-Muhsi (المحصى)	The Appraiser
59	Al-Mubdi' (المبدئ)	The Originator		Rev 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
60	Al-Mu'id (المعيد)	The Restorer
61	Al-Muhyi (المحيى)	The Giver of Life		Joh 11:25  Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
62	Al-Mumit (المميت)	The Taker of Life		Mat 21:19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, "May you never bear fruit again!" Immediately the tree withered.
63	Al-Hayy (الحي)	The Ever Living One		Rev 1:18  I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
64	Al-Qayyum (القيوم)	The Self-Existing One
65	Al-Wajid (الواجد)	The Finder
66	Al-Majid (الماجد)	The Glorious
67	Al-Wahid (الواحد)	The One, the All Inclusive, The Indivisible
68	As-Samad (الصمد)	The Satisfier of All Needs
69	Al-Qadir (القادر)	The All Powerful
70	Al-Muqtadir (المقتدر)	The Creator of All Power
71	Al-Muqaddim (المقدم)	The Expediter
72	Al-Mu'akhkhir (المؤخر)	The Delayer
73	Al-Awwal (الأول)	The First		Rev 1:8  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord
74	Al-Akhir (الأخر)	The Last
75	Az-Zahir (الظاهر)	The Manifest One
76	Al-Batin (الباطن)	The Hidden One
77	Al-Wali (الوالي)	The Protecting Friend		Joh 15:12  This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Joh 15:13  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Joh 15:14  Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
78	Al-Muta'ali (المتعالي)	The Supreme One
79	Al-Barr (البر)	The Doer of Good
80	At-Tawwab (التواب)	The Guide to Repentance
81	Al-Muntaqim (المنتقم)	The Avenger
82	Al-'Afuww (العفو)	The Forgiver		Luk 5:20  And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. Luk 7:48  And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
83	Ar-Ra'uf (الرؤوف)	The Clement
84	Malik-al-Mulk (مالك الملك)	The Owner of All
85	Dhu-al-Jalal wa-al-Ikram (ذو الجلال و الإكرام)	The Lord of Majesty and Bounty
86	Al-Muqsit (المقسط)	The Equitable One
87	Al-Jami' (الجامع)	The Gatherer
88	Al-Ghani (الغنى)	The Rich One
89	Al-Mughni (المغنى)	The Enricher
90	Al-Mani'(المانع)	The Preventer of Harm
91	Ad-Darr (الضار)	The Creator of The Harmful
92	An-Nafi' (النافع)	The Creator of Good
93	An-Nur (النور)	The Light		Joh 8:12  Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
94	Al-Hadi (الهادي)	The Guide
95	Al-Badi (البديع)	The Originator
96	Al-Baqi (الباقي)	The Everlasting One		Rev 1:18  I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
97	Al-Warith (الوارث)	The Inheritor of All		Mat 28:18  And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Joh 16:15  All things that the Father hath are mine:
98	Ar-Rashid (الرشيد)	The Righteous Teacher
99	As-Sabur (الصبور)	The Patient One

Conclusion

To conclude, we have more than sufficient evidence that Jesus is:-

(a)        As-Salam (السلام), the Source of Peace

(b)        Al-Mu'min (المؤمن)the Inspirer of Faith

(c)        Al-Hakam (الحكم)          the Judge

(d)        Al-`Adl (العدل) the Just

(e)        Al-Khabir (الخبير)the All-Aware

(f)        Al-Mujib (المجيب) the Responder to Prayer

(g)        Al-Ba'ith (الباعث)           the Resurrector

(h)        Al-Haqq (الحق) the Truth

(i)         Al-Mubdi' (المبدئ) the Originator

(j)         Al-Muhyi (المحيى) the Giver of Life

(k)        Al-Mumit (المميت)the Taker of Life

(l)         Al-Hayy (الحي) the Ever Living One

(m)       Al-Qadir (القادر)the All Powerful

(n)        Al-Awwal (الأول) the First

(o)        Al-Akhir (الأخر)the Last

(p)        Al-Wali (الوالي) the Protecting Friend

(q)        Al-'Afuww (العفو) the Forgiver

(r)        An-Nur (النور) the Light

(s)        Al-Baqi (الباقي)           the Everlasting One

(t)         Al-Warith (الوارث) the Inheritor of All

And we do not even need to look at their scriptures to know it.  They have their scriptures, yet they do not not know.  Truly as Jesus said, Joh 5:39  “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me”.  Testify they did!

Yet Muslims often ask “Where in the bible did Jesus ever call himself God?”.   "Where?", they ask.  We, the Christians know.  They, do not want to know.  They just want to ask.

And Jesus in no uncertain ways did show Himself to be the Allah who created all things …… the original God who created heaven and earth.  We, the Christians know Him and who He is.  Others do not, though they try to seek and please Him, and when they are told He is the one that they are seeking, they reject Him.  And shall He take them to the heavenly places if they keep on denying Him?  Shall they blame Him if they go to the fiery place for judgement?

Jesus said in John 8:32 “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free”.