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Islam’s Teaching concerning the Death of Jesus Christ

Islam’s Teaching concerning the Death of Jesus Christ. The Gospel facts “of first importance”.

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Islam’s Teaching concerning the Death of Jesus Christ

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  1. Islam’s Teaching concerning the Death of Jesus Christ

  2. The Gospel facts “of first importance” • For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)

  3. The Qur’an’s view of Jesus’ death • “That they said (in boast), ‘We killed Christ Jesus The son of Mary, The Apostle of God’; – But they killed him not, Nor crucified him, But so it was made To appear to them, And those who differ Therein are full of doubts, With no (certain) knowledge, But only conjecture to follow, For of a surety They killed him not: – Nay, God raised him up Unto Himself; and God Is Exalted in Power, Wise;”

  4. The Old Testament prophets foretold the death of Christ. • For dogs have surrounded me; A band of evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet. (Psalm 22:16) • He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth. (Isaiah 53:7)

  5. Clean out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. (1 Corinthians 5:7) • For Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt Thou allow Thy Holy One to undergo decay. (Psalm 16:10)

  6. Jesus Himself declared that He would be killed and that His body would be in the grave three days. • From that time Jesus Christ began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day. (Matthew 16:21) • for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (Matthew 12:40)

  7. The New Testament evangelists uniformly affirmed that Jesus died. • this Man, delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. (Acts 2:23) • “And though they found no ground for putting Him to death, they asked Pilate that He be executed. (Acts 13:28)

  8. Secular history confirms that Christ died. • Josephus, the Jewish historian, refers to Jesus’ death (Antiquities18.3.3). • The Roman writer, Tacitus, said that Christ was “executed” by Pilate (Annals 15.44). • The early enemies of Christianity, e.g., Celsus and Lucian, also conceded that Jesus was put to death, as did the Patristic writers of the ante-Nicean period.

  9. A Moslem commentary on the Qur’an. • “The end of the life of Jesus on earth is as much involved in mystery as his birth, and indeed the greater part of his private life, except the three main years of his ministry. It is not profitable to discuss the many doubts and conjectures among the early Christian sects and among Muslim theologians. The Orthodox Christian Churches make it a cardinal point of their doctrine that his life was taken on the Cross, that he died and was buried, that on the third day he rose in the body with his wounds intact, and walked about and conversed, and ate with his disciples, and was afterwards taken up bodily to heaven. This is necessary for the theological doctrine of blood sacrifice and vicarious atonement for sins, which is rejected by Islam” (Qur’an – Translation & Commentary, Islamic Propagation Centre International, A. Yusuf Ali).

  10. The Islamic repudiation of the death of Christ is grounded in an aversion to the biblical doctrine of the Lord’s vicarious death to atone for sin, and thus strikes at the very heart of the gospel of Jesus of Nazareth.

  11. Consider the possibilities! • If Mohammed was right, then Christianity is false teaching that results in a vain faith. It offers salvation on the basis of what never occurred and we have no hope! • If on the other hand, the Bible is right, then the book of Mohammed should be rejected as the writing of a false prophet who denied the revelation of God’s true prophets. • The religion of Islam is hostile to the Christian faith, and it must never be viewed as an optional religious system that has divine approval.

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