Tawheed is more than disbelieving in Jesus as the second person of the Trinity. Tawheed not in the in the New Testament-- the opposite is there. Trinitarians believe that God died on a cross. The Old Testament says that God neither sleeps, nor slumbers, but in the book of Mark, Jesus is sleeping on a boat.
Believing that God died is the opposite of Tawheed, because people die. Allah is beyond death, so to say that He died is contrary to Tawheed.
Is Tawheed it in the Old Testament, though? that is debatable.
We believe Jesus had both a Divine and Human nature (when He became man), it was His human nature that slept, and it was His human nature that died on the Cross and was resurrected on the third day.
The other thing that I don’t understand, is that I have heard that the Koran say’s that Jesus didn’t actually die on the cross and that he was a prophet and not the Son of God or Messiah.
The first thing is strange, because I am sure the Romans knew how to crucify people properly, they had been doing it for a long time, and it was St Longinus who pierced the heart of Jesus on the cross to make sure he was dead, as they were breaking the other two criminals legs so they wouldn’t be on the Cross during Passover and yet would still die, he also died quicker because of the scourging that took place beforehand.
I would also be more inclined to believe the ones who were around at the time and witnessed the events (even close to it), than Muhammad writing about it around 600 years later and somehow superseding everyone else over what occurred.
The second part about Jesus not being the Son of God or Messiah, I don’t understand, because I find it hard to believe that the Pharisees could demand His death on account of ‘Blasphemy’ if He only said or implied or meant that He was just a Prophet.
It is the one that is needed. As it is with all the Holy Words of God.
And their hearts are sealed so that they do not understand.
Allah has sealed their hearts so that they do not know.
We seal their hearts so they cannot hear (the Truth).
22.46. Do they never travel about the earth (and view all these scenes with an eye to learn lessons), so that they may have hearts with which to reason (and arrive at truth), or ears with which to hear (God’s call)? For indeed, it is not the eyes that have become blind; it is rather the hearts in the breasts that are blind.
Regards Tony
This to me, sounds like simply a copy of what Jesus quoted to the Pharisees from Isaiah
"The Gospel of Matthew:
13 This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 14 With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says:
‘You shall indeed hear but never understand,
and you shall indeed see but never perceive.
15
For this people’s heart has grown dull,
and their ears are heavy of hearing,
and their eyes they have closed,
lest they should perceive with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart,
and turn for me to heal them.’
As far as miracles are concerned. Muhammad was an illiterate man yet here we are 1400 years later still trying to understand a Book revealed to Him. How can an illiterate man produce a Book that can have 1.6 billion followers?
Because, I believe like any good error, to tread water it must contain some truth to it. Which I believe Muhammad had taken from the Old and New Testaments.
Anyway, just some of my thoughts, I hope this has helped
God Bless
Thank you for reading
Josh
