10 Things Christians Should Know About Muslims And Jesus

Hey there,
I respect and encourage the fact that you opened up a delicate subject with no harsh intentions, but with love for universal peace and true freedom.

This matter about wether Jesus is the son of God ( Allah) or not, has made great thinkers try to encode this mystery, but with no definite answers.

But let me clarify my point of view as a Christian and an Arab.

First, the first verse you gave doesn't show any contradictions to the fact that Jesus is son of God, but rather another unrelated message, which is that : it's not by pretending that we're calling the Lord several times that we will earn eternal life, but by showing our real love to Him ( with prayer, good actions and love for every Godly creature : nature and Human beings).

Second, with all due respect to Islam and to the profound and deep messages of love that decorate the holy Qur'an, the second verse you gave has nothing to do with the Bible, and therefore nothing to do with what came out of Jesus and the teachings that He has given to us. If we have to discuss christian theology or philosophy, then we have to discuss it over its reference book and not other books, since Christianity derived from the Bible and not the holy Qur'an. So if the problem resides in Christian philosophy, then it should be solved in Christian teachings.

Third, i would like to share my personal view over what trinity is, but before that, we have to understand that, according to Christianity, we won't ever understand such a big, Godly conception with our reduced humble minds.
The ultimate God, the only and mighty God, has shown to Christianity 3 major capacities of Him, so He can make us understand how He works in general. There's one God. if we get to go to Heaven now, we will see just one mighty King sitting on a throne, smiling to us. And not 3 persons sharing the title of Creator. or else it won't make sense.
But i am already making huge mistakes by simply giving a description of God, since He said, we will see what our eyes never saw, nor will hear what our ears ever heard etc..

But i'm trying to get to a point where i can simplify what God in Christianity is.
God communicated with prophets, but he never did that physically, but rather with the same method, which is through visions, feelings, ideas, wisdom, leadership etc.. Therefore, God simply communicated using the surrounding of the prophet but with a strong Godly impact to avoid misunderstandings. This is what we call the Holy Spirit of God, kind of one of His 3 capacities.

This holy spirit still is present in every one of us, simply because God loves us and wants to be too close to us and to our hearts. Because God is love and forgiveness, and we are called his children. And that's what taught us Jesus.
Jesus is God in Christianity, he is the "son" of God because He humbly appeared as a human, and humans are the creation of God, therefore he called himself "son of God" (my interpretation: son of his own Creation). We call Him God because what He did, and what He taught were Godly and what God actually wanted from us. God came Himself to us to be close and to teach us how to live and how to love and how to truly be his creation, His Godly creation. He is not that pretentious and egocentric and the "too perfect" guy who can't come to us because we are too bad for Him or too worthless. Although we are worthless, we are bad, we are weak, and yes ,He's too perfect for us. But He came to show us what real perfection is, perfection is Love, and Forgiveness, and He came to forgive us, to show us that the biggest king between us should serve the most miserable poor of us. And that's definitely a non Human action.

It's hard to understand what the real conception is since He is God, and He won't show himself entirely simply because our physical brains doesn't have the available capacity, he just wants us to be like kids, stop thinking and worrying, and follow Him, just as we blindly follow our parents when we're kids.

Jesus gave too many signs that He is God, He "resimulated" Godly actions : He gave life, He rose the dead up, He healed, He forgave, He loved, He never sinned, and He didn't die (He did, but broke the law of death, to prove that He defeated Human weakness). That's what proves to us that He is God. Humans do sin, but since He is God --> He is perfect, and even if He's human as Jesus, his perfectness can't lead to " Him falling in sins" , Proof : he resisted the devil in the desert, he accepted to die for us, although he never did anything wrong ( he could've defended himself with words, lies, accusations, cries, and all sort of Human weaknesses that appears when we are put in a hard situation, especially facing death), he Healed the sick, he forgave the sinners, he healed the possessed, he showed purity and perfection which is the absence of sins.

Another proof, between many others, ( i won't get any longer because i already said too much), is that in the end of the Bible, Jesus said to his disciples, "I" will send you the Holy spirit so you can preach to the world my teachings. And it Happened, in fact, we have now the Bible ( the new testament precisely), written by four followers of Christ and who wrote it with no mistakes, since the Holy Spirit of God was strongly active in them ( therefore, God wrote the New Testament, through His disciples in analogy to the Holy Qur'an which is God's book written by the prophet muhammad pbuh). And the last time Jesus appeared to his disciples before going back to God, he asked them to preach : "in the name of the Father, The Son and the Holy spirit" , in the name of the 3 faculties of God that brought to Humans: Privilege, Forgiveness and love.

Please Consider my reply as friendly as your intentions while writing your post, i appreciate your consideration of my own response, as i just intended to express my point of view with what my religion is to me with all due respect to all the other religions, and especially Islam which preaches and love the same one God of ours.

We just Have to Love.