Islams Teaching concerning the Death of Jesus Christ

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Islams Teaching concerning the Death of Jesus
Christ
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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
  153-4)

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The Qurans 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

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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 2216)
• 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 537)

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• 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 57)
• For Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Sheol
  Neither wilt Thou allow Thy Holy One to undergo
  decay. (Psalm 1610)

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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 1621)
• 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 1240)

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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 223)
• And though they found no ground for putting Him
  to death, they asked Pilate that He be executed.
  (Acts 1328)

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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.

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A Moslem commentary on the Quran.

• 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
  (Quran Translation Commentary, Islamic
  Propagation Centre International, A. Yusuf Ali).

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

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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 Gods 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.