The Koran clearly says that someone else was put in Jesus’ place and that Allah caused people to believe it was Jesus - in other words Allah deceived/tricked people.
[4.157] And their saying: Surely we have killed the Messiah, Isa son of Marium, the apostle of Allah; and they did not kill him nor did they crucify him, but it appeared to them so (like Isa) and most surely those who differ therein are only in a doubt about it; they have no knowledge respecting it, but only follow a conjecture, and they killed him not for sure.
quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/koran/koran-idx?type=DIV0&byte=114839
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Unless you want to offer up who ‘caused’ the ‘appearence’ to be different is someone other than Allah, you need to withdraw your objection
No, the Quran does not say that someone else was crucified in Jesus’ stead, despite that implication being inserted in several English translations by various translators.
There are several conflicting theories among Muslims as to who exactly was crucified-- most believe it was a disciple of Jesus who volunteered to be substituted, others believe Judas was crucified, others believe it was Simon of Cyrene, others even believe it was Barabbas (name translation: the son of the father)-- but NONE of these theories is specified as reality by the Quran text.
What the Quran DOES specify is this
According to a strict Arabic understanding 4:157 says:
*‘wal[a]kin shubbiha lahum’ *(but instead it was made to appear to them as such)
‘wa-inna alla[th]eena ikhtalafoo
feehi lafee shakkin minhu’ (and those who differed in his identity follow conjecture…)
Feehi means in WHO he was, in his identity, in his persona.
The New Testament ALSO indicates a change of persona in the person who was crucified:
John 1:14 teaches that “the Word was made flesh”.
However, some New Testament verses “stand out like a sore thumb” in describing what was slain on the cross, in opposition to the Word-made-flesh PURE nature of Yahshua, these verses describe a definite change in identity that took place on or before the cross :
2Corinthians 5:21 “God made Yahshua to be SIN”
(If Allah made Jesus to BE sin, as the Bible says, then it was not the holy prophet Jesus who died on the cross, it was the body of sin.)
Romans 6:6 “our old man is crucified with, that the body (slave) of sin might be destroyed”
Colossians 2:14 ~“the writ (legal document) of our transgressions against the Law was nailed to the cross”~
Ephesians 2:16 “enmity to the law was slain on the cross”
Romans 8:3 “the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh”
All of those verses indicate that it was NOT the Word made flesh that died on the cross,
but something else entirely: sin, enmity, transgression against the Word.
Thus the Quran is proven accurate in its minute commentary on the crucifixion: it appeared that the Jews crucified Jesus, but there was a change in his persona which they failed to discern.
Likewise, anyone else who fails to discern that change is liable to end up calling one or another of Allah’s Revelations a lie. Be careful, believers, that you receive the Love of the Truth so as not to fall into strong delusion.
