Now the same logic can be applied to Muhammad: where does Muhammad exactly say in the Quran “I am a Prophet, follow me”, it’s not in the Quran. Nowhere does Jesus say these exact words “I am God. Worship me” in the Holy Bible. Jesus Christ claimed to be God and showed His divine nature by the miracles and power He performed.
John 10
30 I and My Father are one.” – Jesus Christ
John 5
23 that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. – Jesus
John 14
8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Mark 2
5 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” (Only God has authority to forgive sins)
28 Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.” –Jesus
Exodus 3
2 And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. 3 Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.”
4 So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!”…13 Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”
14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘ I AM has sent me to you.’ ”
John 8
54 Jesus answered, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is your God. 55 Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be a liar like you; but I do know Him and keep His word.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
57 Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
59 Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
John 20:28(Jesus accepts worship)
And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
Matthew 22 41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”They said to Him, “The Son of David.”43 He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying:
44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord,“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool” ’? (Psalm 110)
45 If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?” 46 And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.
Mark 14
62 Jesus said, “I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”(See Daniel 7:13-14)
Al-Hadid 57:3
He is the First and the Last, the Most High and Most Near, and He has ˹perfect˺ knowledge of all things.
Revelation 1
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”…17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. 18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. – Jesus Christ
Mark 5
6 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped Him. 7 And he cried out with a loud voice and said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I imploreYou by God that You do not torment me.”8 For He said to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit!” 9 Then He asked him, “What is your name?”And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.” 10 Also he begged Him earnestly that He would not send them out of the country.11 Now a large herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains. 12 So all the demons begged Him, saying, “Send us to the swine, that we may enter them.” 13 And at once Jesus gave them permission. Then the unclean spirits went out and entered the swine (there were about two thousand); and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and drowned in the sea.
(Here Jesus did not stop the man from worshiping Him even angels reject worship as this is a violation of the 1st commandment)
John 11 (Jesus resurrects the Dead – Lazarus)
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?” 27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench,
for he has been dead four days.”
40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” 43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (~600BC)
(Dead Sea Scrolls – Great Isaiah Scroll – Date ~ 125BC)
How can a Man be God?
Many Muslims say “God cannot become creation; If God enters creation he becomes dependent and cannot be God.”
However, the Quran records Allah speaking from creation in the account of the burning bush
Al-Qusas 28:30 But when he came to it, he was called from the right side of the valley in a blessed spot – from the tree, “O Moses, indeed I am Allāh, Lord of the worlds.”
This statement that God cannot become creation contradicts the Quran’s own teachings, as Allah from within the bush speaking to Moses.
Also Sahih Muslim 758B
Allah descends every night to the lowest heaven when one-third of the first part of the night is over and says: I am the Lord; I am the Lord: …
Saying God cannot come into creation also contradicts Islamic teachings in the Hadith, as this says that Allah descends into the lowest heaven and into creation , this means Allah is present at night all the time in the sky.
Then many Muslims may say ok fine, yes Allan can enter creation but Allah or God cannot die.
Muslims believe that Quran is the eternal uncreated word of Allah. Yet in the Quran in itself is a physical book, paper , ink etc, it can be burned or destroyed. Because of this Muslims teach that the Quran has two natures, one eternal and uncreated and another physical, created and consumable.(Introduction of Sharh Sahih Muslim Dar Ihya al-Turath vol 1 p 25-26 , Al- Nawawi)
The Holy Bible teaches that Christ Jesus had 2 natures a human and divine nature. That Jesus is fully man and God.
Muhammad also teaches in the Hadiths that the Quran will take form of a man. Something that believed to be eternal and uncreated word of Allah will become a man on the day of resurrection.
Sunan Ibn Majah 3781“The Quran will come on the Day of Resurrection, like a pale man, and will say: ‘I am the one that kept you awake at night and made you thirsty during the day.”
The Holy Bible says the Word was God and the Word became flesh and the Word was Jesus Christ.
John Ch1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God…
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me [f]is preferred before me, for He was before me.’”16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Muslims claim that Allah’s eternal word cannot be destroyed but a physical Quran can be burned or destroyed and Islam also teach that the Quran, Allah’s eternal word will become a man in the day of resurrection. Therefore you then cannot say: “Jesus cannot be God because He is a man who died”. Jesus is both man and God (See more If Jesus is God, then how can God die?)
When Jesus prayed, did he pray to himself?
Now when Jesus prayed, He prayed to the Father, who is a different person in the Godhead. It is the same when God the Father speaks, praises and prays to His Son (Hebrews 1:8-10) , God the Father does not speak to himself. God has the eternal attribute of love (1 John 4:7-11) that God the Father loved His Son before the creation of world from eternity, unlike Allah, before creation of the world, Allah does not have anyone to love but because according to the Quran he was by himself and therefore he can only love himself before creation, therefore Allah cannot have the eternal attribute of love. Now when Allah prayed who did he pray to?
To understand Jesus as God we need to understand what and who God is? First, let’s answer – What is God?
- Eternal – The Great “I AM” -Exodus CH3 (Self-Existing Being outside our known dimensions)
- All powerful (Omnipotence)
- All knowing(Omniscience)
- All present (Omnipresence)
- The Creator of time, space, matter, the universe, life
and man
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God(‘ĕlōhîm) created the heaven and the earth
2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Below are Hebrew meanings:
ĕlôha– Singular / one
- God
- false god
‘ĕlōhîm – plural
- rulers, judges. 2.divine ones, angels 3. gods,
‘ĕlōhîm – (plural intensive – singular meaning)
- godlike one
- works or special possessions of God
- the (true/Supreme/Most High) God
- God
Who is God?
Deuteronomy 6:4 (Torah)
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD
(YHWH/Yahweh/Jehovah/ I AM)
our God, the LORD is one!
In Hebrew one here is אֶחָד echâd
Here is a Hebrew Dictionary(Strong’s Definition)
– it’s plural, properly, united, alike, altogether, and, certain, each (one), every, few, first, highway, one, only, other, some, together,
John 1030 I and My Father are one.” – Christ Jesus
Isaiah 48:12 “Listen to Me, O Jacob, And Israel, My called: I am He, I am the First,I am also the Last. (1st person) 13 Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, And My right hand has stretched out the heavens; When I call to them,They stand up together…16 “Come near to Me, hear this:
I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; From the time that it was, I was there. (1st person)
And now the Lord God (2nd Person) and
His Spirit (3rd person)
Have sent Me.” Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,
The Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
Who teaches you to profit,
Who leads you by the way you should go.
There are many examples in the Old Testament or Torah, where God presents himself in distinct persons. Here in Isaiah 48 we have 3 distinct divine persons. (further down there will be more examples)
Matthew 28 18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”Amen.
Here the Messiah commands to baptise in the name of the Triune God. Pay attention to the word “and of” which shows a clear distinction of the 3 names of the persons of the GodHead/Trinity ( “…name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…”)
Continued see next page->Who is God? – Godhead/Tri-Unity(Trinity)
There is only One God
(What He is – God is a title / status),
One Being in three distinct Persons (Who God is) revealed in the Holy Bible.
God the Father
God the Son(Jesus Christ)
God the Holy Spirit
God is Tri-Unity, the Trinity/the GodHead are:
co-eternal , co-divine , co-equal
None of the three Persons are separate gods, nor do they make up one-third of God (partialism is considered heresy – 1/3 of God is not fully God), nor that God is persons that exist in different modes/ manifestations (modalism is also considered heresy – All 3 persons of the Godhead have been recorded present at the same time: Matthew 3 : 16 , Isaiah 48:12-16 …). Each person of the GodHead is 100% fully God revealed in the Holy Bible as three distinct Characters/Persons.
The doctrine of the Trinity is not new, not just found in the New Testament but it is present in the Old Testament.(read further for more)Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
A similar but not exactly the same nature as the Trinity, an example to explain one being in 3 distinct persons is the likeness of Man (The Tripartite Nature of Man) – your Body is (what) you are, your soul and your spirit is (who you are). 3 distinct personas. This is just a similar analogy but the issue or problem with this comparison is that it can be confused with partialism, the persons of the GodHead cannot be separated as God is One but man(his body can be separated with his soul),only take this as an example of a complex singular being with 3 personas.
More examples of the Trinity/GodHead in the Holy Scriptures
1 John 5 7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one.
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:
God was manifested in the flesh,
Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.
Hebrews 1
(The Father)8 But to the Son He says:
“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A [f]scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.”
10 And:“You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
Proverbs 30:4
Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Who has gathered up the wind in the hollow of his hands? Who has wrapped up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and the name of his son? Tell me if you know!.
Psalm 2:7 “I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me,‘You are My Son,
12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way,When His wrath is kindled but a little.Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.
2 Samuel 7
13 He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be his Father, and he shall be My son
Daniel 3
24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?”
They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.”
25 “Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the[e] Son of God.”
There are 2 persons in this story the Lord on earth speaking to Abraham and raining fire on Sodom and
the Lord from the heavens.
Genesis 18
Then the Lord appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day. 2 So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground, 3 and said, “My Lord, if I have now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by Your servant. 4 Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. 5 And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your servant.”They said, “Do as you have said.”6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.”… 16 Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way… 20 And the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, 21 I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”22 Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord. 23 And Abraham came near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there were fifty righteous within the city; would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it? 25 Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”26 So the Lord said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”…
Genesis 19:24 (The Lord on Earth rains fire from the Lord)
Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens.
If Jesus is God, then how can God die?
Did God die when Jesus died on the cross? The answer depends on how we understand the meaning of the word die. To die does not mean to go out of existence. Death is separation. Physical death is when the soul-spirit separates from the physical body. So, in that sense, yes, God died, because Jesus was God in human form, and Jesus’ soul-spirit separated from His body (John 19:30). However, if by “death” we mean “a cessation of existence,” then, no, God did not die. For God to “die” in that sense would mean that He ceased to exist, and neither the Father nor the Son nor the Holy Spirit will ever cease to exist. The Son, the second Person of the Trinity, left the body He temporarily inhabited on Earth, but His divine nature did not die, nor could it.
Jesus is truly God and truly man. His physical body did die; His heart stopped beating, and “he gave up his spirit” (Matthew 27:50). Just as our physical bodies will someday die, so did His. But as Jesus died physically, He remained alive spiritually. Jesus made good on His promise to the believing thief on the cross—He and the thief both went to paradise, not physically, but in spirit (Luke 23:43).
So, Jesus died physically on the cross, as was plain for all to see (John 19:34). But there is also the matter
of spiritual death. When Jesus was hanging on the cross, He experienced death on our behalf. Even though He is God, He still had to suffer the agony of a temporary separation from the Father due to the sin He bore. After three hours of supernatural darkness, Jesus cried, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mark 15:34). So, could it be said that Jesus also “died” spiritually? Again, it was only His human nature that was separated from God, not His divine nature. God did not “die.”
The question for all people to ask is “what will happen to my soul/spirit when it leaves my physical body?” This is the most crucial question in life. As we saw with Jesus, our spirits will leave our bodies and travel on to somewhere else. We will either follow Him to heaven to spend eternity with Him, or we will go to hell to spend eternity in “outer darkness” where there will be “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 8:12). There is no other option. Jesus’ death on the cross paid the way for all who would ever believe in Him so that we can know for sure where our spirits will reside for eternity. His death provided us spiritual life, both here and in heaven. “And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you” (Romans 8:11).
(See www.gotquestions.org)