hi planten. Peace to you. yes, i own a copy of the koran, and have read that you believe Jesus is messiah. we have more in common, than the fundamentalist of both our faiths would have us believe. maybe you can answer a question i have.
why does the koran, state it was someone else up on the cross instead of Jesus? does islam teach that Jesus did not have to die to fulfill his purpose on earth. thank you for your time. Peace
what was written exactly in quran ?
Let’s look at verse 4:156-159
“That they rejected Faith; That they uttered against Mary A grave false charge; 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. Nay,
Allah raised him up Unto Himself; and Allah Is Exalted in Power, Wise. And there is none of the people of the book (Jews and Christians) But must believe in him (Jesus) Before his death; And on the Day of Judgment He (Jesus) will be a witness Against them.”
what is written in quran is that it’s made to appear to them , what is that exactly mean ? it can means they thought he was killed , it can to mean they imagined he was dead , it can mean they put someone else who they thought was jesus himself . it can to mean that it was propoganda that he was curcified
how it was made to appear to them exactly isn’t mentioned in the verses
but what is so clear from us is that he wasn’t put on the cross and didn’t die ,
The Orthodox-Christian Churches make it a cardinal point of their doctrine that his life was taken on the Cross, that he died and was buried, that on the third day he rose in the body with his wounds intact, and walked about and conversed, and ate with his disciples, and was afterwards taken up bodily to heaven.
The Basilidans believed that someone else was substituted for him.
** The Docetate** held that Christ never had a real physical or natural body, but only an apparent or phantom body, and that his crucifixion was only apparent, not real.
The Marcionite Gospel (about A.C. 138) denied that Jesus was born, and merely said that he appeared in human form.
**The Gospel of St. Barnabas **supported the theory of substitution on the Cross.
** The Quranic teaching** is that Christ was not crucified nor killed by the Jews, not with standing certain apparent circumstances which produced that illusion in the minds of some of his enemies; that disputations, doubts, and conjectures on such matters are vain; and that he was taken up to Allah Almighty.