Hazrat Isa A.S.

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Re: Hazrat Isa A.S.

@kchughtai

I didn’t reply it since that didn’t seem relevant. I know about John the baptist and Yahya(as) are the same person. don’t know about the rest. but the references I quoted, you had no answer for them. You pick and choose a lot. where something is apparently aligned with your thought then you keep quoting it left and right knowing that contradicting references are also there. When something is going against your thought then you outright reject it no matter how solid the evidence is.
The case of Elijah prophet and prophecy surrounding his coming is all there in old testament and in new testament as well. not just in one place. and I have quoted a few. There are Jewish religious scholars who still quote as ‘not coming of Elijah’ as one of the reasons that Jesus(as) was not a true promised messiah.
Jhon the baptist might have clarifying the fact that he is not same Elijah who died centuries ago. You closed your eyes to the testimony of Jesus and attributed it to a narrator. I don’t think we can talk further with such sort of mindset

Actually in that particular verse it was the narrator who stated it, but you are right elsewhere in the New Testament - Jesus calls John the Baptist Elijah … What is clear in my view is not from the Bible however that is what you are accusing me of … Rather the Qur’an confirms that Ilyaas (AS) - Elias = Elijah and Yahya (AS) - John are two different people, by invoking them separately.

My basis for rejecting the idea that John is Elijah and my basis for rejecting that Elijah is necessitated to come before Jesus is from the Qur’an …

The Qur’an confirms Jesus (AS) as Messiah therefore I have to reject the Jewish claims that he is not despite their prophecy in the Book of Malachi and the Qur’an supports John and Elijah as two different people despite the New Testament indicating that they are one. I don’t pick and choose … I select from the previous scriptures that what is compatible with the Qur’an.

The last thing is this … Since the Jews believed that Elijah went up to heaven in person alive and are awaiting his return - then by your argument to use him (Elijah) as an analogy we should accept that it is possible for Isa (AS) to have done the same - i.e. Ascend without death.