Download Islam`s Teaching concerning the Death of Jesus Christ

Islam’s Teaching concerning the
Death of Jesus Christ
The Gospel facts “of first importance”
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For I delivered to you as of first importance
what I also received, that Christ died for our
sins according to the Scriptures, and that He
was buried, and that He was raised on the
third day according to the Scriptures, (1
Corinthians 15:3-4)
The Qur’an’s view of Jesus’ death
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“That they said (in boast), ‘We killed Christ
Jesus The son of Mary, The Apostle of God’; –
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, God raised him up Unto Himself; and
God Is Exalted in Power, Wise;”
The Old Testament prophets foretold
the death of Christ.
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For dogs have surrounded me; A band of
evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced
my hands and my feet. (Psalm 22:16)
He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet
He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that
is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is
silent before its shearers, So He did not open
His mouth. (Isaiah 53:7)
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Clean out the old leaven, that you may be a
new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened.
For Christ our Passover also has been
sacrificed. (1 Corinthians 5:7)
For Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Sheol;
Neither wilt Thou allow Thy Holy One to
undergo decay. (Psalm 16:10)
Jesus Himself declared that He would
be killed and that His body would be in
the grave three days.
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From that time Jesus Christ began to show His
disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer
many things from the elders and chief priests and
scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third
day. (Matthew 16:21)
for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in
the belly of the sea monster, so shall the Son of Man
be three days and three nights in the heart of the
earth. (Matthew 12:40)
The New Testament evangelists
uniformly affirmed that Jesus died.
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this Man, delivered up by the predetermined
plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to
a cross by the hands of godless men and put
Him to death. (Acts 2:23)
“And though they found no ground for putting
Him to death, they asked Pilate that He be
executed. (Acts 13:28)
Secular history confirms that Christ
died.
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Josephus, the Jewish historian, refers to Jesus’
death (Antiquities18.3.3).
The Roman writer, Tacitus, said that Christ
was “executed” by Pilate (Annals 15.44).
The early enemies of Christianity, e.g., Celsus
and Lucian, also conceded that Jesus was put
to death, as did the Patristic writers of the anteNicean period.
A Moslem commentary on the Qur’an.
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“The end of the life of Jesus on earth is as much involved
in mystery as his birth, and indeed the greater part of his
private life, except the three main years of his ministry. It
is not profitable to discuss the many doubts and
conjectures among the early Christian sects and among
Muslim theologians. 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.
This is necessary for the theological doctrine of blood
sacrifice and vicarious atonement for sins, which is
rejected by Islam” (Qur’an – Translation & Commentary,
Islamic Propagation Centre International, A. Yusuf Ali).
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The Islamic repudiation of the death of Christ
is grounded in an aversion to the biblical
doctrine of the Lord’s vicarious death to atone
for sin, and thus strikes at the very heart of the
gospel of Jesus of Nazareth.
Consider the possibilities!
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If Mohammed was right, then Christianity is false
teaching that results in a vain faith. It offers
salvation on the basis of what never occurred and
we have no hope!
If on the other hand, the Bible is right, then the
book of Mohammed should be rejected as the
writing of a false prophet who denied the
revelation of God’s true prophets.
The religion of Islam is hostile to the Christian
faith, and it must never be viewed as an optional
religious system that has divine approval.