Who do you believe, Muhammad or Jesus?

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  Muhammad or Jesus?

  by	Dave Miller, Ph.D.

  
  Muhammad: “Those who say: Allah hath chosen a son…speak nothing but a lie” (Surah 18:4-5).
  Jesus (through John): “Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ?... Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either” (1 John 2:22-23).
  

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  Muhammad: “Allah hath not chosen any son, nor is there any God along with Him” (Surah 23:91).
  God: “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!” (Matthew 17:5).
  

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  Muhammad: “[T]he Christians call Christ the Son of God.... Allah’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!” (Surah 9:30).
  Jesus: “[H]e who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18). “Jesus…said, ‘Do you believe in the Son of God?’ He answered and said, ‘Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?’ And Jesus said to him, ‘You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you’” (John 9:35-37).
  

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  Muhammad: “They slew him not nor crucified, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain, but Allah took him up unto Himself” (Surah 4:157-158).
  Jesus: “‘And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.’ This He said, signifying by what death He would die” (John 12:32-33).
  

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  Muhammad: “[S]ay not ‘Three’—Cease! (it is) better for you!—Allah is only One God. Far is it removed from His transcendent majesty that he should have a son” (Surah 4:171-172).
  

  Jesus: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19).
  

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  Muhammad: “They surely disbelieve who say: Lo! Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary…. Lo! whoso ascribeth partners unto Allah, for him Allah hath forbidden Paradise. His abode is the Fire” (Surah 5:72-74).
  Jesus: “[I]f you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins” (John 8:24).
  

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  Muhammad: Polygamous, having multiple wives, as many as 12 at a time.
  Jesus: Remained single, devoting Himself to His divine mission.
  

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  The Jesus of the Quran: A mere human prophet, finite in his attributes, like sinful man, flawed.
  The Jesus of the Bible: Perfect, infinite in all of His attributes, unlike sinful man.
  

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  Islam is focused on Muhammad, who was merely a man.
  Christianity is focused on Jesus, Who was God in the flesh.
  

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  OBSERVE:
  According to Islam and the Quran—
                   If you believe that Jesus is the Son of God, you will be lost eternally in hell.
  According to Christianity and the Bible—
                   If you do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God, you will be lost eternally in hell.
  
  Jesus said: “Unless you believe that I AM, you will die in your sins” (John 8:24).
  
  NOTE: The above verses from the Quran were taken from two celebrated Muslim translations:
  Ali, Abdullah Yusuf (1934), The Qur’an (Elmhurst, NY: Tahrike Tarsile Quran), ninth edition.
  Pickthall, Mohammed M. (1930), The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (New York: Mentor).
  
  
  

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