Just to express my last thought, I do not deny Jesus alayhi wasallam saved people by healing them or raised them from the dead or that he is not born from Virgin Mary,and I believe he will be sent back to rid the world of disbelievers and kill the Dajjal, but what I believe and understand is Jesus alayhi wasallam could not do this without the permission of Allah Subana Wa Ta'ala and to say he could puts him as equal to Allah Subana Wa Ta'ala and Jesus alayhi wasallam never claimed he could do anything without the permission of Allah Subana wa Ta'ala, I also do not believe he went to the cross but instead was replaced by one of his disciples who when asked volunteered to take up the cross in place of Jesus alayhi wasallam as taught in Islam. Jesus alayhi wasallam also taught his followers to submit to the will of Allah Subana Wa Ta'ala. 'Thy will be done'
Matthew 26:39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”
Suban'Allah When I began studying Islam I recognized Islam for the truth because of the Gospels and message of Jesus alayhi wasallam although as a Christian I didn't understand what it meant to submit to God nor did I understand accountability for my own sins, nor did I understand what it meant as only One God as Jesus alayhi wasallam spoke about in the Gospels being the Father, and so I would only throughout my life pray Only to God, not to Jesus alayhi wasallam because Jesus alayhi wasallam never told us to pray to him, nor did he tell us to pray to anyone else so why I was confused people prayed to Jesus alayhi wasallam or made him God or of being equal to God. So you see my brother why I chose Islam, (or really why Allah Subana Wa Ta'ala forgave me, answered my prayers for peace of mind and serenity and chose Islam for me) it is the right way and as a revert at times difficult because Islam is definitely a spiritual cleansing journey and must do much soul searching and learning and praying to Allah Subana Wa Ta'ala so not to be pulled away from the truth.
May Allah Subana Wa Ta'ala keep us all guided and protected from the fire of Hell. Ameen
Yeshua the man did what was ordained of him by YHWH. Everything was from YHWH. One of the biggest stumbling blocks for me personally with Islam is the position it takes on the crucifixion. It makes no sense at all. Everything in the previous scriptures prepares for this very event, there is strong historical evidence apart from the Bible that affirms it happened. Yet the Quran takes the position of allowing someone else to die in Christ's place. Thus robbing Christ of the fulfilment of his mission ordained by YHWH, yet worse still implies that YHWH the holiest of holies is a deceiver and cheat!!! There is no logical reason at all for this scenario.
Do you ever think why would YHWH give us a religion to divide us? I believe YHWH is love incarnate, his very nature was revealed in the man of Christ. Christ told us we are nothing without love. I will leave you with my favourite Bible verse on love..
Corinthians 1:13
The Way of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Peace and Blessings to you Fatima. I have enjoyed conversing with you.
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