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Originally Posted by Zarmina I love Jesus, he is one of Allah's prophets. He is not a God or the son of God. I believe the bible is wrong about him. Even in the bible, it does not say anywhere that Jesus is the son of God. |
I appreciate your first couple of statements. And I believe I have learned enough about Isalm to understand where you are coming from in saying that you do not believe him to be either God nor the son of God. However I find discontinuitous your two statements that
(1) the Bible is wrong about him,
and
(2) nowhere does the Bible say that Jesus is the son of God.
If the Bible doesn't say he is the son of God, why do you think the Bible is wrong about him? If you think the Bible is wrong about him, then do you think it is wrong for "NOT saying anywhere" that Jesus is the Son of God?
You see what I mean about making discontinuitous statements.
For the record, as I read the Bible I do see that Jesus is repeatedly referred to in it as the Son of God, even Muslims point to these verses and what they usually point out is that Jesus himself never is quoted in the text as saying "I am the son of God." What is missed is that others are quoted as saying that Jesus had indeed declared himself to be the son of God or even God both in words and in actions. Of course, you are free to believe that these others or the gospel authors themselves are not speaking truth and have invented this story, but the belief that Jesus is the son of God is found in multiple places in scripture. Here is a link to a simple Bible search program
www.Biblegateway.com that lists all the times the phrase "son of God" is used in the New Testament. Not all of them refer to Jesus, but most of them do. I won't bog this thread down with a bunch of references or an extensive discussion of the use of the term "son of God", but if you are interested, you might check out more of what I had to say on the subject in
this post (I have a few questions) in another thread.