CHRISTIAN
AND MUSLIM ARGUMENT ON THE GODHEAD OF CHRIST 6.1 Jesus the Literal Son of God 6.2 Jesus Addressing God as “Father” 6.8 The Word Created Everything 6.9 Thomas Addressed Jesus as “My Lord and My God” |
6.6 Jesus The Only Savior?
We read in Isaiah 43:3: “For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your savior.” (NLT) While Titus 3:6 has: “He generously poured out the spirit upon us because of what Jesus Christ our savior did.” (NLT) Christians argue that, because God is our savior, and Jesus is spoken of as also being our savior, thus he must be God because God is the only savior.
Josh Mc Dowell, the great Protestant evangelist states that: “The God of the Old Testament stated unequivocally that he alone is the Savior…Yet Scripture explicitly states that Jesus is also Savior. Paul told Titus to await the blessed hope, the “appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.”[1] Muslim Answer: 2 Kings chapter 13 verse 5 has: “Then Jehoahaz prayed for the Lord's help, and the Lord heard his prayer. The Lord could see how terribly the king of Aram was oppressing Israel. So the Lord raised up a deliverer to rescue the Israelites from the tyranny of the Arameans. Then Israel lived in safety again as they had in former days.” (NLT) Commenting on the verse of Kings, Dr. Gary Miller states: “Today the modern one (Bible) when we look up that same verse it says that King Jehoahaz was a “deliverer” not “savior”, well, they both mean the same thing. But what they had carefully done is they have gone to the whole Bible and every place where it talk about God or Jesus as a savior they would translate the word as savior. Every place when it talk about somebody else is a savior they would translate the same word as deliverer or redeemer...But in the King James Version it's not there...they honestly translated the word savior at 2 Kings 13:5 and the rest as savior.”[2] |
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