CONTENTS

PREFACE

ISLAM IS THE ONLY ONE

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2 

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

JESUS NEVER CLAIMED TO BE GOD

5.1     The Bible Disapproves the Godhead of Christ 

5.2     Anglican Bishops Shock Christians

5.3     Biblical Proof

5.4     Jesus Lesser Than the Holy Spirit

CHAPTER 6

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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5.1    The Bible Disapprove the Godhead of Christ

The Bible record of sayings credited to Jesus is quite small. After allowing duplication in the four Gospel accounts these sayings could only be printed in two columns of a Newspaper.[1] Christian’s belief that Jesus is God or God the Son is not supported by the actual sayings of Jesus in the “so-called” Canonical Gospels. There is no explicit statement in any of the four Gospels where Jesus said “I am God” or “Worship me’. Furthermore, he never did say that God, The Almighty is composed of three persons and that the three together are One. Imam Ibn Taimiyyah affirm this by saying: 

“In the speech of the Prophets, either in that of Christ or of any of the others, there is no mention of the hypostases of God -- either three or more -- nor of an establishing of the three attributes, nor any calling of anyone of the attributes of God or son of God or Lord, or calling His life a Spirit, nor that God had a son who is true God from true God, from the essence of his father, and that he is creator just as God is creator. This is the case [as well] with other opinions comprising forms of disbelief – none of these was ever handed down by any Prophet.”[2] 

          Al Ustaz Ahmeed Deedat in his debates and meetings with Christian Pastors and Evangelists all around the world says that: 

“If Jesus is God, show me only one statement anywhere in the Bible, any version of the Bible where Jesus said “I am God” or “Worship Me…I’m prepared to get baptized…no wasting time. (Audience Laughter).”[3]

This fact is also being recognized by an increasing number of Christian scholars. As the “Rylands Bulletin” states: 

“The fact has to be faced that New Testament research over, say, the last thirty or forty years has been leading an increasing number of reputable New Testament scholars to the conclusion that Jesus…certainly never believed himself to be God.”[4] 

The Bulletin also says of  “first-century Christians”: 

“When, therefore, they assigned [Jesus] such honorific titles as Christ, Son of man, Son of God and Lord, these were ways of saying not that he was God, but that he did God’s work.”[5] 

Karen Armstrong, one of the foremost British commentators on religious affairs who spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun, author of The New York Times bestseller “A History of God” says: 

“As we shall see, the doctrine that Jesus had been God in human form was not finalized until the fourth century. The development of Christian belief in the Incarnation was a gradual, complex process. Jesus himself certainly never claimed to be God. At his baptism he had been called the Son of God by a voice from heaven, but this was probably simply a confirmation that he was the beloved Messiah. There was nothing particularly unusual about such a proclamation from above …Jesus himself used to call himself “the Son of Man”. There has been much controversy about this title, but it seems that the original Aramaic phrase (bar nasba or the son of man) simply stressed the weakness and mortality of the human condition...”[6] 

Josh McDowell, the great Protestant evangelist of our time, while “hair-splittingly” trying to prove the Godhead of Christ based on Biblical grounds admits in his “Jesus: A Biblical defense of His Deity” that: 

“Arguments can be made both for and against the deity of Christ. If one has been taught that God is one person and that Jesus is a created being, then on first reading, Bible verses can be found to support that view…”[7]