MUHAMMAD’S QUR’AN DENIES THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS (3)

Turning water to wine: the first miracle of Jesus Christ

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3)            The Bible is silent on the earthly growing days of the Christ’s humanity. Jesus did not perform any miracle prior to His earthly age of thirty as Qur’an 5:110 erroneously informed. How do I know this? He told His mother off when she wanted to show Jesus off. She had kept His Messianic facticity in her heart, ergo, she knew Jesus could perform miracles, which only God is capable of. John 2:4 “Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come.” This is a gentle reproof of his mother’s interference with the affairs of Divinity, which is only at the will of the Father. Even if Jesus did breathe into a sculptural piece of clay and turned it into a living bird; that is of creationism: a sole métier of the Divinity, being a miracle and not magic. This, turning of water into wine, was the first miracle of Jesus. “This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him” (John 2:11). Muhammad, having heard a lot of unscriptural apocryphal stories, which were easily spread by Jewish authors and Catholicism propagation, was grossly influenced by them.

                Who says Jesus Christ did not taste of death? That person must definitely be the worst calumnious candidate of Satanism. The death of the holy One of Israel had already gone the way of Divine ukase way back in Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” By ‘bruise his heel’, the humanity of Jesus is meant. Jesus Christ died on the cross; He rose on the third day to deal a destructive, bruising blow on the Devil’s head.

Isaac’s sacrifice typifies the ultimate Golgotha crucifixion

                Why do you think God demanded Isaac’s sacrificial trial from Abraham? It is to legitimize a spiritual phenomenon: the LORD God experiments a similitude of event on terra firma. God would not go to any other person – who would disappoint Him –; to Abraham, His friend, whose faith in the Creator is definitely Gibraltar fixed, God went to perform a similitude of the ultimate Golgotha soteriological arrangement. Salvation must be sanguineous. The life of the Adamic creation is in his blood. For the sinner to regain fellowship with his Creator, blood must pay for blood. When they committed the original sin, a quadruped was killed, not only to engage in the exchange of the sinless animals for the Adamic sinfulness, but also and very importantly, to propitiate God.

                The first thing Noah did immediately they disembarked from the Ark was to offer sacrifice to God, thanking Him for sparing the lives of the eight surviving souls of the Great Deluge. Genesis 8:20-21 “And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21) And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.”

                Before God told Abraham of a covenant, Genesis 15:9 reads, “And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” Blood sacrifice. The Old Testamentary reality did not commence without the statutory blood sprinkling. Exodus 24:5-8 “And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. 6) And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7) And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. 8) And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.” This was the commencement of the Old Testamentary covenant. The Blood.

This cup is the New Testament in my blood

                Paul wrote under the Holy Spirit’s inspiration, 6) “But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7) For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second” (Hebrews 8:6-7). The second had its enactment in Luke 22:19-22 19) “And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. 20) Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. 21) But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table. 22) And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!” Why would Jesus make the statement of “Son of man goeth, as it was determined:” speaking of His impending death of the cross if He did not truly die to save the world? Theologically, salvation of the soul of man is contingent on the Golgotha event. This is the divine protocolary.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. You were born in sin. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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MUHAMMAD’S QUR’AN DENIES THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS (2)

Gethsemane: an olive-yard where Jesus was arrested.

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2)            Did they go to the residential abode of Jesus to make His arrest as the commentary on Qur’an chapter 4 verse 157 indoctrinates? Let us read from Bible account. John 18:1-4, 12-13. “When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples. 2) And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples. 3) Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. 4) Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? 12) Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him, 13) And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.” Mark 14:32 gives the name of the place as Gethsēmanē (gheth-say-man-ay’): ‘an oil press’.

                How so germane: for the Roman world power focus of arrest is none other than the Christ, the Anointed One. The unguent of salvation needs to be pressed; but it must come from the Messiah! “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out” (Romans 11:33)!

In the Qur’an Muhammad taught that Jesus went to heaven sleeping. Does it have biblical truth?

                “Muhammad” – in G.J.O. Moshay’s admittance of him, in his book, ‘Who Is This Allah?’ – “is at best a philosopher.” The prophet of Allah, wanting at all cost to discredit Christianity, resorted to horrid regurgitation of the casuist that he was, when in An-Ni’sa, the fourth chapter, verse 157, the commentary says, “Allah made the young man look exactly like `Isa, while a hole opened in the roof of the house, and `Isa was made to sleep and ascended to heaven while asleep.” This is egregiousness of speciousness. Acts 1:9 “And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.” Verses 7 and 8 document what He was telling them. Do these verses show any sign of Muhammadan calumnious somnambulistic ascension? This is the account of the writer of one of the gospels, “And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven” (Luke 24:51). Does a sleeping person bless? Jesus was not asleep, when He went to heaven. Muhammadan Qur’an is fraught with errors terribly antithetical to theological inspiration of the Bible.

                Before Jesus went to the cross He said, “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again” (John 10:17). He must do it for His sheep; Muhammad was not a follower of the Truth of all truths – Jesus – ergo, not one of the salvaging sheep of the Lamb of God. Verse 18 is more ponderous, “No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father” I am truly happy that Muhammad chose to denigrate Christological facts. Little did he know that Lucifer gave him an active role of an antichrist. To have power to enter into death and retrieve oneself from the same death is typicality of Divinity. Selah!

The cave where Muhammad received the words of Allah through Gabriel.

                Why would Muhammad decide to use a cave as the rendezvous of Divine connectivity? The answer is very simple. He wanted to replicate the Mount Sinai phenomenon. The deception, I believe, is calculated to tell the world of religiosity that the God of the Bible had rejected Israel, Jewry and Christianity. How does one challenge the last prophet of the Most High? He needed to add that angle to make Islam God’s choice of religious worship. That is the reason for another cavernous rendezvous. The Qur’an contains 75% of the Bible. Unfortunately, the Bible is never up for any replication.

                Al-Ma’idah 5:110 [The Day] when Allah will say, “O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit [i.e., the angel Gabriel] and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind [from birth] and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, “This is not but obvious magic.”

                Most certainly, I know that God can and will do any miracle to prove His Omnipotence. But how does it make sense that a Muhammadan vaticination will run thus: “O Jesus, the son of Mary, remember my favours…when I supported you with the Pure Spirit [i.e., the angel Gabriel] ….” In what Scriptural way did angel Gabriel aid Jesus as the Infant of days or in His older missionary days of three and a half years? Muhammad, know thee not that God’s protocol, the Bible, does not support this teaching of your religious lean? Gabriel can never accent to being older than the Christ; the archangel knows that Jesus Christ is their Creator. “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the same Word was God.” The word ‘with’ is the Greek pro, meaning: ‘face to face’ – when nothing of creationism was in existence. This is the proof of the eternality of Jesus Christ with the Father.

Crucifixion of Jesus brought salvation to the world.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. You were born in sin. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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MUHAMMAD’S QUR’AN DENIES THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS (1)

“Greater love hath no man…that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).

1)            The microcosm of the entire thirty-one thousand, one hundred and two verses of the Bible is John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” This verse, which sums up God’s mind and intent for mankind, touches on His love, His gift of the only begotten Son, eternal damnation and the soteriology. The death of the Son is substitutionary: the life of sinless Second Member of the Godhead for the lost Adamic souls. Sin is a curse as we understand Ezekiel 18:4 “Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” And Wisdom, the personification of the Christ, makes it clear in Proverbs 8:36 “But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.” Sin, for this scriptural reason, is truly a reproach. Not wanting to destroy sinful man, God designed redemption way out in John 3:16. When Prophet Muhammad began his Islamic campaign, one of the antagonistic teaching of the Islamic protocolary Qur’an against Christianity was an oppugnation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.   

                An-Nisa’ 4:157 And [for] their saying, “Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah.” And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but [another] was made to resemble him to them. And indeed, those who differ over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain.

The death of Jesus Christ has irrevocable historical documentation

                This is the shortened commentary: And because of their saying, “We killed Al-Masih, `Isa, son of Maryam, the Messenger of Allah,” meaning, we killed the person who claimed to be the Messenger of Allah. The Jews only uttered these words in jest and mockery, just as the polytheists said, (O you to whom the Dhikr (the Qur’an) has been sent down! Verily, you are a mad man!). (15:6). When Allah sent `Isa with proofs and guidance, the Jews, may Allah’s curses, anger, torment and punishment be upon them, envied him because of his Prophethood and obvious miracles; curing the blind and leprous and bringing the dead back to life, by Allah’s leave. He also used to make the shape of a bird from clay and blow in it, and it became a bird by Allah’s leave and flew.

                 `Isa performed other miracles that Allah honored him with, yet the Jews defied and bellied him and tried their best to harm him. Allah’s Prophet `Isa could not live in any one city for long and he had to travel often with his mother, peace be upon them. Even so, the Jews were not satisfied, and they went to the king of Damascus at that time, a Greek polytheist who worshipped the stars. They told him that there was a man in Bayt Al-Maqdis misguiding and dividing the people in Jerusalem….When the king’s deputy in Jerusalem received these orders, he went with some Jews to the house that `Isa was residing in, and he was then with twelve, thirteen or seventeen of his companions. That day was a Friday, in the evening. …They surrounded `Isa in the house, and when he felt that they would soon enter the house or that he would sooner or later have to leave it, he said to his companions, “Who volunteers to be made to look like me, for which he will be my companion in Paradise?”…

                A young man volunteered, but `Isa thought that he was too young. He asked the question a second and third time, each time the young man volunteering, prompting `Isa to say, “Well then, you will be that man.”…..Allah made the young man look exactly like `Isa, while a hole opened in the roof of the house, and `Isa was made to sleep and ascended to heaven while asleep.

No other person has these divine credentials: Way, Truth and Life.

                I have always wondered why Muhammad should call Jesus by the sobriquet of Isa. According to G.J.O. Moshay, the author of the explosive book, “Who Is This Allah?” Isa does not in any way agree etymologically, and even with Arabic way of pronunciation. Moshay believes that, not knowing what to make with Hebraic Yehoshua, Muhammad just slapped the character of the biblical Yehoshua with the sobriquet ‘Isa!’ Did Allah suggest the Arabic Isa for Jesus or Yehoshua? Who, I ask, is this Allah, the purported God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob of Israel? Jehovah of the Bible gave the name of the Saviour as Yehoshua. Muslim scholars refer to an ‘attendant’ of Moses to whom they give the Arabic name, Yusha bin Nun (Joshua the son of Nun). Muhammadan ignorance does not know that Joshua and Jesus are the one and the same Hebraic Yehoshua or Yeshua. Why would Islam not apply the sobriquet ‘Isa to Joshua as well? Ignorance: on whose part, Allah or Muhammad, or both? Selah!  

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. You were born in sin. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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MUHAMMAD DENIES DIVINE SONSHIP OF JESUS (5)

“…righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:” (2Peter 1:1)

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5)            So far, my exegetical quiddity, of Scriptural source, is the publication of Muhammadan error of Islamic vitiation of the Sonship of Jesus Christ. His Sonship is not from the standpoint of a biological parturition; it is found on the eternal inviolability of theological authentication. How can so many scriptural proofs of Christ’s Sonship come to Quranic censorship? The Bible provides the reason for any vitiation of this facticity. Let us go back to God’s protocolary revelation.

                1John 2:1-2, 4-5, 22-23 “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2) And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”  Let us look at the next two verses of 1John 2:4-5 “He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5) But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.”  Verses 22-23 read, “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23) Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.”

Moses, the leader of Israel.

                . Adam cannot enter into this office of divine advocacy. He is an entity of creation; he wilfully committed and swam in the pollution of the original sin. Moses, the lawgiver, does not qualify for the official role of our heavenly Advocate; he is a matter of creationism, he made many mistakes known of sin natured beings and like Adam, he is not of the Divinity. If we are spiritually found in Him – the Righteous Jesus –, the righteousness of the Divinity is our covering. Jesus is not an ordinary prophet: He is much, much more than that – if we must know him, and be keepers of his commandments, then it is clear that whoever keeps not His word: for He is the express Word of God, is truly a liar, and the truth is not in him.

The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit constitute one God of latria prostration.

                Who gives divine commandments? Is it not the LORD God of the Bible? The uniqueness of Jesus Christ is His Divinity. Does He not give the commandments of 1John 2:4-5? Verses twenty-two and the following twenty-third read, 22) “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23) Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.” Muhammad clearly admitted that Jesus is Christ, fine. But he, unfortunately, failed to acknowledge the deity of Christ – theological aberrancy! If Muhammad gets a pass mark in his admittance of Jesus’ Christological essence, his incorrigible bent on Qur’ainc denial of divine Sonship of the Christ evidently validates the antichrist mission of Muhammad. There is absolutely nothing separating the Father and the Son: for They, together with the Holy Spirit form one God to Whom the entire creations give latria prostration. The Father sits to judge. The Son, having been poured forth in propitiation, to avert eternal damnation, must be the One to lead us to the Father’s acceptability. Where is the Holy Spirit, a prying thought would ask? He took a dwelling in the born again Christian, authenticating the celestial citizenship of the regenerated soul.

The sacrifice of Isaac prefigures the Golgotha substitutionary death.

                The word ‘advocate’ of 1John 2 verse one is paraklētos (par-ak’-lay-tos): ‘called to one’s aid, a legal assistant, advocate; the Intercessor or the Comforter.’ There is not the smidgeon of any chance for Muhammad to be the celestial intercessor. Jesus is the sole Intercessor. The Quoranic vaticinations of Muhammad, in sharp contrast to the teaching of Jesus, the Word of GOD, disqualifies him to ever be the empyrean intercessor.

                Dikaios (dik’-ah-yos): is the Greek for ‘righteous’ in 1John 2:1 meaning: ‘equitable (in character or act); by implication innocent, holy (absolutely or relatively).’ From Scripture, we understand that Jesus is the Absolute good in essence. The Golgotha propitiation is not only for Israel, it is, according to Scripture, “for the whole world.” ‘Keepeth’, tēreō (tay-reh’-o), means: ‘to attend to carefully, take care of.’ The next word, ‘commandments,’ is entolē (en-tol-ay’): ‘injunction, that is, an authoritative prescription.’ Without controversy is the facticity that when it comes to authority of religious prescription, it must come only from the Divinity. The Righteous One, whose commandments the Bible enjoins us to keep, is the Lord Jesus. What is the commandments of Jesus to the Adamic world? John 3:3 commands to be born again to enter into the blissfulness of heaven.

                Salvation requires the process of believing the Son of God – which Muhammad rejects – in John 3:16; and the asseverative confession of the Lordship of Jesus over one’s life in Romans 10:9. Muhammad’s abnegation of the Sonship of Jesus makes him, Muhammad, a liar, according to the Scripture found in 1John 2:22-23. The fact that the invocation of Jesus is a must to benefit in the divine beneficence of spiritual regeneration substantiates the Deity of Jesus Christ. Amen.     

“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad” (John 8:56).

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. You were born in sin. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

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MUHAMMAD DENIES DIVINE SONSHIP OF JESUS (4)

Jesus healed 18 years illness pointing to His destruction of the ultimate Antichrist

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4)            The Entity of Muhammad’s denial, unquestionably, is the only way to heaven. Hebrews 10:20 “By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;” is Pauline revelation of Jesus Christ. The veil that covered the holy of holies is actually a type and shadow of Jesus. Matthew 27:51 “And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;” is the phenomenal occurrence after His substitutionary death on the cross. Before the arrest that led to His sacrificial death: for it was germane that He should be condemned, the Book of Matthew 26:12 reads “For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.” This was in His response to the expensive oil applied to His Person, which some disciples objected to. It was His own death: He prophesied. Mark 14:27-28 27) “And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. 28) But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.” His resurrection from death is of categorical explicitness in verse 28.

“For this is my blood of the new testament” (Matthew 26:27-28).

                Jesus died for a world of sinners who were on their way to hell. To create a legality for the “new and the living way”, it was most appropriate to move from the Old Testamentary method of man’s pietistic approachability. It takes the original Testator to change an inefficient covenant in order not to operate a defective law. Being the Institutor of the Old Testament, Jesus went ahead with the enactment of the New Testamentary order. Matthew 26:27-28 27) “And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; 28) For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” By grace, never by works, we are saved.

                Exodus 24:7-8 7) “And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. 8) And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.” The fault found with Mosaic covenant was its fugacious stance. The blood of the elements of sacrifice could not blot out man’s sin permanently. Eternality of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit must be duly reflected in the quality of the life of God’s adoption (Romans 8:15, 23; 9:4; Galatians 4:5 & Ephesians 1:5). It must be of grace – unmerited favour –, flowing from the eternal love commitment of the Most High.  

I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel (Hebrews 8:8)

                Hebrews 8:6-9 6) “But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7) For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8) For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9) Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.” The truth here is that without the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ, there would never be the New Testamentary order. Now, let us look at the word ‘mediator’ which is mesites (me-siy’-tees): ‘1. a go-between. 2. (simply) a spokesman. 3. (by implication) a reconciler (intercessor).’ If centuries before the  birth of Muhammad the Bible had pointed out the Lord Jesus to the world as the ‘reconciler’ or the ‘intercessor’ between God and man, how could Muhammad claim to be the unbiblical intercessor on the Judgment Day in Sahih al-Bukhari Book 60 Hadith 15? In fact the prophet of Allah said he would go as far as retrieving those who had been languishing in hell fire!

                Without equivocation this Islamic revelation is sourced from purgatorial didacticism of Catholicism; which St. Augustine (354–430) distinguished between the purgatorial fire that will burn off stains and the everlasting fire that consumes those who die unrepentant and unreconciled to the church: of which Clement of Alexandria and Origen believed that punishment by God must be to educate and, thereby, contribute to salvation. It had before them been a teaching of Platonism. And much longer than Plato, purgatorial Buddhism is the term ‘Naraka’ meaning “hell”. Islam has belief similarities with Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and sees Christianity through the unscriptural ritualism of the Romish Church.

                An inerudite Muhammad quaffed to inebriation the umbilical Popery doctrines of the Catholic Church. What happened to Revelation 20:14-15, “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15) And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire”? The next verse is more precise; Matthew 25:46 “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” There cannot be two intercessors. Muhammad denies the Divinity of Christ only to use subtlety to present himself as the Messiah. Only the Messiah stands between God and man. 1Timothy 2:5-6 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6) Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” Amen!

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. You were born in sin. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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MUHAMMAD DENIES DIVINE SONSHIP OF JESUS (3)

“My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” (John 5:17)

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3)            Inebriated in the legalism of religion, the Jews accused Jesus of healing on a Sabbath day. John 5:17-18 “But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 18) Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.” He called God His Father, not by procreation, adoption or creation but by nature of Divine essence; this makes the Christ equal with the Eternal Father. Muhammad’s Allah has absolutely nothing in comparison with Jehovah. His Allah, having no son, must be sans the soteriology. Jesus says He works just like His Father. We understand that the Father works as the Author of Creationism. Definitely the work of Jesus must be for the preservation of creationism, which involves only the Divine Creator; and this is what the Sonship of Jesus unequivocally denotes.

                “And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. 39) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me” (John 5:37 and 39). If the entire Scriptures speak of Jesus Christ, and we understand that the Bible is God’s protocol, then Jesus is all that God, the Creator, is trying to unveil to intelligent beings. Jesus is the Author of eternal life. Hallelujah!

Judas’ betrayal with a kiss at Gethsemane

                    John 12:27-30 “Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. 28) Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. 29) The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. 30) Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.” The irrefragable fact is that Lucifer, demons or the Antichrist, lacking the Almightiness of divine power, cannot speak down to the earth from heaven. God the Father voiced from heaven affirming the divine Sonship of Jesus. The Sonship is an essence of divinity, it is an official title of the Second Member of the Godhead. God, Jesus told them, did not make the divine asseveration for the fun of it; He brought the celestial verbalism – a denial of Muhammadan Allah – to the earth for our knowledge. Methinks Allah told Muhammad to teach that Jesus did not die on the cross? Verse 27, when paraphrased is, “And why should I say, Father, save me from this hour? When for this cause I am come, presenting my divinity, to this hour.” Jesus, here, acknowledged that His Golgotha death was fixed in the soteriological covenant of grace, ergo, there was no need, whatsoever, appealing for an exemption from the Passion Week. Jesus’ acquiescence was an, “Amen”, to the will of the Father. Hallelujah!

Muhammad’s prayers ended with “AMEEN” (not realizing that Jesus is the AMEN!)

                Amen is the conclusion of prayers. Islamic response to prayers is ‘Āmīn (ameen), believing that it is the only way of faithful accent to the prayer offered. Over six centuries before Muhammad commenced his missionary work, the celestial Visitant met John on the Island of Patmos and in the self-introduction of Himself, Jesus uttered the words of Revelation 1:8, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” Could this Entity be the Marian parturition of creationism? It should not be a big deal for Him to call Himself “Alpha and Omega.” The “Alpha and Omega” is preceded by “I am”, which is the Greek ego eime meaning: ‘I Exist’ which is not different from the Exodus 3:14 ‘I AM THAT I AM’. What is the connotation of Alpha and Omega? It is not different from Logos, the Greek word for ‘Word’ in John 1:1. Logos is the totality of God’s thought, will, purpose and utterance; the Greek philosophers, in their bid to fashion out the Creator, believed that there must be something that serves as the connective medium or intermediary between Him and men. They decided to call that imaginary medium “logos”. In writing the Book of John, the Apostle used it – Logos – to intimate them that that ‘logos’ of their philosophical discovery is actually a Personage; the Second Member of the Godhead. John was totally overwhelmed by the divine presence of Christ whom he had followed for three and half years; and we read in Revelation 1:17 “And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:” underpinning the Divinity of Jesus.

I fell at his feet as dead (Revelation 1:17)

                Alpha and Omega is the ‘the all in all,’ without Whom nothing will come into existence. He calls Himself “the Almighty”. To be Almighty expresses His Omnipotence, Omniscience and the unfathomable Omnipresence. Everything has its source in the Almighty Alpha and Omega. Muhammadan Islam will not make mention of this essence of Christ simply because it will defeat Muhammad’s denial of Christ’s divinity. Revelation 3:14, “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;” John quotes the Visitant to his Island of Patmos confinement. The Greek for ‘Amen’ is amen (a-meen’): ‘1. (properly) firm. 2. (figuratively) trustworthy. 3. (adverbially) surely. 4. (often as interjection) so be it.’ It comes from the Hebraic ‘âmên (aw-mane’): ‘1. sure. 2. (abstract) faithfulness. 3. (adverb) truly; 4. so be it, truth.’ There is no way that Jesus would be the ‘AMEN; and He would not be God: for only God can be the personification of Truthfulness.

                Every uttered “Amen” is an invocation of the Son of God for speedy answer to prayers. Did Muhammad ever vocalize “’Āmīn?” If he did, as several times he said it, he called on the Son of God to agree with his petition before the Father, probably without knowing it! 2Corinthians 1:20 “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.” Through Jesus Christ God made every promise. Without Jesus, the Logos, God does not say anything. Christ is the totality of God’s mind, will and purpose. Amen.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. You were born in sin. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

(…to be continued…)

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MUHAMMAD DENIES DIVINE SONSHIP OF JESUS (2)

      “…pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven” (Matthew 6:9)

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2)            The first obvious Scripture, proving Jehovah’s Fatherhood of humanity is found in Exodus 4:22-23 “And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn: 23) And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.”  ‘Son’ is ben (bane): ‘(used widely) a son (as a builder of the family name).’

Firstborn is bekôr (bek-ore’): ‘1. firstborn. 2. (hence) chief.’ Jeremiah 31:9 “They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.”  ‘Father’ is ‘ab (awɓ): ‘father {in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application}.’

                Matthew 6:9 “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” and at another time, Jesus taught, “And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven” (Matthew 23:9). ‘Father’ is the Greek pater (pa-teer’): ‘a “father” {literally or figuratively, near or more remote}.’ Luke 20:34-36 “And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: 35) But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: 36) Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.”  ‘Children’ is huios (hwiy-yos’): ‘1. a son. 2. (of animals) a colt, etc. 3. (broadly) a descendant.’ How categorical can one put it other than the asseverative “and they are the children of God”, of Jesus’ teaching?

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14).

                Romans 8:14-16 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15) For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16) The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.” ‘Adoption’ of Romans 8:15 is huiothesia (hwiy-yo-the-siy’-a): ‘1. the placing as a son. 2. (concretely) adoption. 3. (figuratively) Christian sonship in respect to God.’ ‘Abba’ is Abba (ab-ba’): ‘(vocatively) Abba, father; {referring to or addressing one’s father}.’  ‘Children’ of verse 16 is teknon (tek’-non): ‘a child (as produced).’ Evidently not led by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (totally alien to Allah’s prophet), Muhammad suffered from the poverty of the heart that was devoid of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, a filial existence which did ostracize Muhammad from the family of Jehovah of the Christian Bible, therefore, he could not, pathetically, have said, “Abba, Father.”

                The Book of John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” If Jesus Christ is not the Personage of divine Sonship the Bible will not say so in John 3:16. His Sonship is the Greek monogenes huios. Monogenes (mo-no-ǰe-nees’) – only begotten – means: ‘only-born (i.e. sole)’; huios (hwiy-yos’) means: ‘1. a son. 2. (of animals) a colt, etc. 3. (broadly) a descendant.’ Huios happens to be the highest form of sonship; the traditional huios is equal in status to his father; and that is the reason why the Jews wanted to stone Jesus for calling God His Father. The uniqueness of the Sonship of Jesus truly translates to the Lord’s asseveration of John 10:30, “I and my Father are one.”  

This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Matthew 3:17).

                Muhammad’s denial of Divine Sonship of Jesus should not surprise me. Judas followed the Lord for years but he decided to betray his Lord and Master for filthy lucre. The faithful disciples went round the world, however, to preach the kerygma. One of them wrote, 1) “And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, 2) And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. 3) And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. 4) Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. 5) While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. 6) And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.” Matthew 17:1-6).

Disciples fell in awe of Jesus

                It was not the disciples alone who fell in awe of the LORD, Moses did on Mount Sinai (when God honoured his prayer of, “Shew me thy glory”); Joshua did before the Angel of the LORD – the epiphany of Jehovah. Later on, Saul of Tarsus, knowing when he is before the LORD the God of Israel, fell down in bowing worship, when Jesus appeared to him on his nefarious, Damascus mission. The disciples, on the Mount of Transfiguration, being Israelites, knew when in the presence of the LORD God, therefore, fell on their faces they did, in absolute latria. Like the Jordan baptism, the same loving voice of the Father came to their hearing, “This is my beloved Son.” The Book of Mark reported the same occurrence in chapter 9 verses two to nine where the ninth verse reads, “And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.” The Divinity always hides Himself; Jesus, being Divine, must be hidden.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. You were born in sin. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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