Interfaith Dialogue (Jesus PBUH and Muhammad PBUH) - Islam and Christianity

[The_Old_Man]

Re: Interfaith Dialogue (Jesus PBUH and Muhammad PBUH) - Islam and Christianity

@SlaveofAllaah

1. You told me in #51 in bold letter Jesus was created from God, but in #74 its Jesus=Creator, which one is right.

God Almighty, and we certainly do not know all about Him, created/made from Himself Jesus BEFORE any other creations were made. (Some Christian theologians/scholars might differ with me on this point) Therefor it is stated in the Bible that Jesus was God Almighty’s “firstborn” (Col.1v15-16 & Hebrew 1v6-9). God Almighty, before He created anything, in His foreknowledge of what will happen, decided that He needed a part of Him that can materially and physically interact with His future creation. He then made Jesus from Himself. After this, God Almighty as the Tri-une God created the universe, angels, etc.

Interesting what Heb.1v6-9 further state in verse 6 that the angels had to worship Jesus (not just kneel down as per Qur’an). Verse 8 to 9 is a quote from Psalm 45v6-7: But about the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever…therefor God, your God, has set you above…”. God calling the Son God…

2. If you can explain to me the days after Crucifixion of Jesus, thats confusing the 3 days and 3 night and it says with similarity to Jonah. You know this is the most asked question, I have heard from the Islam scholars but I want to hear an explanation from the horses mouth, as I feel this is the way of logically looking at things.

Well let this horse try and explain .

This is where USResident state that one needs to grasp the terminology and idiom of those who write things. The Jews (and Romans) counted any part of a day as a full day (also nights). We see the same way of speech in 2Cron.10v5-10, Esther 4v15-5v1, Moses’ fast in eX.34v28, Jonah 1v17, etc. When the date is the 10’th, the Romans would state that the 20’th is 11 days off (the starting date will be included). The Jewish leaders also recognised the idiom of the time by insisting that the Romans place a guard for three days counting from the Friday to the Sunday because Jesus said he will rise up on the third day (in English one would expect this to happen on the Monday). You can read more here of which I only give a small quote: The Roman Republic, like the Etruscans, used a “market week” of eight days, marked as A to H in the calendar. A market was held on the eighth day. For the Romans, who counted inclusively, this was every ninth day, hence the market became called “nundinae”

For many people not understanding the idiom, it sound silly and downright contradictionary and even an impossibility. Fot people understanding the idiom and way the Jews and Romans counted, there is no problem. I suppose it all depends whether one wants to argumantative or teachable.