Christians Must Heed Jesus

Evidence from the Koran That Jesus (pbuh) Was a Human Being

God states in the Koran that Jesus and his mother Hazrat Mary (pbuh) were envoys with human characteristics. The words "Both of them ate food" in the following verse are deliberately employed to emphasize this important truth:

The Messiah, the son of Mary, was only a messenger, before whom other messengers came and went. His mother was a woman of truth. Both of them ate food. See how We make the signs clear to them! Then see how they are perverted! (Koran, 5:75)

Almighty God also states that Jesus was born, that he had a childhood and that he worked his miracles by God's leave:

Remember when God said, "Jesus, son of Mary, remember My blessing to you and to your mother when I reinforced you with the Purest Spirit so that you could speak to people in the cradle and when you were fully grown; and when I taught you the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel and when you created a bird-shape out of clay by My permission, and then breathed into it and it became a bird by My permission; and healed the blind and the leper by My permission; and when you brought forth the dead by My permission; and when I held back the tribe of Israel from you, when you brought them the clear signs and those of them who were unbelievers said, 'This is nothing but downright magic.'" (Koran, 5:110)

In another verse, Almighty God reminds the proponents of the Trinity that, like all other human beings, Jesus had no power to do anything unless God so willed it.

Those who say, "God is the Messiah, son of Mary," are unbelievers. Say: "Who possesses any power at all over God if He desires to destroy the Messiah, son of Mary, and his mother, and everyone else on Earth?" The kingdom of the heavens and the Earth and everything between them belongs to God. He creates whatever He wills. God has power over all things. (Koran, 5:17)

Of course Jesus is a human being much beloved of God, who is honored and selected by Him; he is His prophet. But ultimately he is a servant. In the Koran, Jesus calls on the children of Israel to worship the One God, against those who would deify him:

Those who say that the Messiah, son of Mary, is God are unbelievers. The Messiah said, "Tribe of Israel! Worship God, my Lord and your Lord. If anyone associates anything with God, God has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be the Fire." The wrongdoers will have no helpers. Those who say that God is the third of three are unbelievers. There is no god but One God. If they do not stop saying what they say, a painful punishment will afflict those among them who are unbelievers. Why do they not turn to God and ask for His forgiveness? God is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Koran, 5:72-74)

In other verses of the Koran, Jesus preaches as follows to the people of Israel:

"I come confirming the Torah I find already there, and to make lawful for you some of what was previously forbidden to you. I have brought you a sign from your Lord. So have fear of God and obey me. God is my Lord and your Lord so worship Him. That is a straight path." (Koran, 3:50-51)

Jesus preached the fact that Almighty God is both his Lord and that of all created things. The few disciples who heeded this message of Jesus spoke of him as a "messenger":

Almighty God says that He has sent messengers to Earth and makes it clear in a verse that it is impossible for them to say, "Abandon God and worship me:"

It is not right for any human being that God should give him the Book and Judgment and Prophethood, and then that he should say to people, "Be worshipers of me rather than God." Rather he will say, "Be people of the Lord because of your knowledge of the Book and because you study." (Koran, 3:79)

As shown by the evidence in these and many other verses, Jesus is a blessed and holy messenger created by God. He is a human being who is a friend of God, a prophet and a servant of God. But in no way is he the son of God; he never claimed to be divine, but sought shelter in God against that. When preaching his message he always reminded people that he was a servant of God and called on them to believe in Him.

Our Lord described those who, despite the evidence provided in the Koran and the Gospel, say that "God is the third of the three" as having "fallen into unbelief." The error of the Trinity is strongly opposed in the Koran, and is a grave and profound danger against which our Lord warns in several verses. Many of our Christian brothers today are going along with what they have been taught and are in all likelihood unaware of the scale of this profound error. The Christians in question must become aware of the magnitude of this danger.

The Koran is the last book. It was sent down to confirm the Gospel, and our Christian brothers therefore have a responsibility to pay heed to the truths revealed in the Koran. They must be open to the guidance of the Koran. This will be a blessing and a mercy for them.

(For more detail on the subject see Jesus (pbuh) Is Not the Son of God, But the Prophet of God, by Harun Yahya, www.harunyahya.com,www.bookglobal.net )

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How Jesus (pbuh) was tested and how satan tried to tempt him

The Gospel explicitly describes how Jesus was a human being tested by God. It is absolutely out of the question for a human being who is tested by God to also be God (surely God is beyond that). It is impossible for someone who satan tried to lead away from the true path to possess such a characteristic. God reveals in the Gospel how Jesus was a human being who was tested by and served Him:

[Jesus:] "You are those who have stood by me in my trials." (Luke 22: 28)

The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And he said to him, "I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it will all be yours." Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.'" (Luke 4: 5-8)

When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time. (Luke 4: 13)

The fact that Jesus (pbuh) was born without a father is no evidence for the Trinity; the Prophet Adam (pbuh) was also born with no mother or father

Trinitarian Christians point to the miraculous birth of Jesus without a father as supposed evidence for their claims. The fact is, however, that they never think, while regarding this as very powerful evidence, that the Prophet Adam was born without either a mother or a father. The Prophet Adam was created in paradise with no natural cause or intermediary, simply by God commanding him to "Be!" Such an act of creation is surely even more miraculous, yet no Christian has ever attributed divinity to the Prophet Adam. This way of thinking that some Christians propose as evidence for the Trinity is thus completely invalid. It can never, ever prove the so-called divine status they seek to bestow on Jesus.

The creation of Adam is described as follows in the Gospel and the Torah:

For Adam was formed first, then Eve; (1 Timothy 2: 13)

Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. (Genesis 2: 7)

None of the references to "son" in the Gospel are understood in the literal sense. The idea of being a real son is only attributed to Jesus (pbuh)

The terms "the son of God" or "the sons of God" are employed in many places throughout the Gospel. As we shall be seeing in detail, the words "son of God" are an expression of love. They express the idea that someone is a blessed, trustworthy, loyal and beloved servant of God. They therefore quite definitely do not mean "son" in any physical or literal sense. This term is used in many places in the Gospel and is addressed to very different people, but nowhere it is used in the physical or literal sense. As in the expression "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God" (Matthew 5: 9), those who bring about peace will be the beloved and valued servants of God. No Christian can interpret this to mean a literal son or attribute any other meaning to it.

The term "son of God" in the Gospel has been interpreted in the physical and literal sense only with regard to Jesus. Although the same term appears, with absolutely no difference in the wording, only Jesus has ever been considered as being a real son. This shows how the term "son of God" has been distorted from its true meaning and how it is deliberately used with a meaning unique to Jesus. Various passages from the Gospel referring to a son or children of God read as follows:

[Jesus:] "But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked." (Luke 6: 35)

And, I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. (2 Corinthians 6: 18)

Jesus is referred to as the "Son of Man" 80 times in holy scriptures. While Christians who support the Trinity try to explain this away in various ways, the term "son of man," barnasha in Aramaic, the mother tongue of Jesus, is a special one meaning "human." Therefore, the term "son of man" is the equivalent of saying "human" in that language. (Prof. Dr. Mehmet Bayrakdar, The Birth of a Christian Dogma, the Trinity, Ankara School Press, September 2007, p. 168)

The term of address "Father" in the Gospel is also metaphorical and calls on all mankind

As well as the word "son," the term "Father" also appears in the Gospel. The reference to "Father" here expresses protection, love and affection. It refers to people who bear the spirit of God, who are told of paradise and who are spiritually close to Him. It is not used in the literal sense, of course. Yet people who believe in the Trinity adopt the literal meaning of a word whose true sense is so clear in the Gospel and suggest that it means the biological father of Jesus in those passages referring to the prophet. This is blatantly misleading and a total distortion of a subject whose meaning is actually so very clear.

Some of the passages in the Gospel in which the term "Father" is used and whose metaphorical meaning is perfectly clear read as follows:

Then your Father, Who sees what is done in secret, will reward you... Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. (Matthew 6: 4, 8)

Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. (Matthew 6: 1)

But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, Who is unseen. Then your Father, Who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. (Matthew 6: 6)

The term "children of God" in the Gospel is also a metaphorical one

The term "children of God," which appears in many passages in the Gospel, refers to believers and refers to a spiritual and metaphorical closeness. It emphasizes that these people are blessed and valued in the Sight of God, and who may hope to have earned His approval. There is no question of any divine status here. Anyone looking at the terms "Father," "son" and "children of God" in the Gospel from an unbiased perspective can easily see that these are metaphorical terms and are used in order to express God's closeness, love, affection and protectiveness. It is baffling why these words, so frequently employed in the Gospel, are interpreted differently when it comes to Jesus. The meaning does not change. The significance is the same metaphorical one, but Trinitarians deliberately distort it.

Some passages in the Gospel that refer to the "children of God" read as follows:

Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. (John, 1:12)

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. (1 John, 3:2)

This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out His commands. (1 John, 5:2)

One example of the term "Father" having a metaphorical meaning is its use for the Prophet Abraham (pbuh)

In the Gospel, the Prophet Abraham is described as the "father" of the faithful. The word "father" is obviously being used metaphorically here; the use of that term emphasizes the Prophet Abraham's leadership, protectiveness and guidance to his followers.

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. (Romans, 4:16)

"Abraham is our father," they answered. "If you were Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then you would do what Abraham did." (John, 8:39)

Serving the created instead of the Creator, a mortal human being instead of God, is condemned in the Gospel

The passages from the Gospel on this subject are highly significant. They report that people of the time worshiped a created entity, a mortal human being in other words, instead of the Creator, and adopted him as their deity. This is the current situation of Christians who believe in the Trinity. They have adopted a human being as their god and have declared that, in their eyes, a created entity is actually the Creator. God warns them as follows in the Gospel:

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—Who is forever praised. Amen. (Romans, 1:21-25)

How Jesus (pbuh) said "God is One"

God is One. Jesus explicitly said so. It is expressly stated in several passages in the Gospel that God is the One and Only, that only He must be served and that people must believe in Him without ascribing equals to Him. (You can find all the passages from the Gospel concerning the Oneness of God in the pages that follow.) Nowhere in these passages are there any illogical references to a three-in-one, nor to three separate deities meaning one deity or to three separate entities being essentially one. All the Gospel says is that "God is One." The fact set out in the Gospel is that there is no other god than Him. It is so easy to see this that it is astonishing how, despite these many explicit passages in the Christian Gospel, they could ever have developed the doctrine of the Trinity.

One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." "Well said, teacher," the man replied. "You are right in saying that God is One and there is no other but Him." (Mark, 12:28-32)

To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty... (Jude, 1: 24)

You believe that there is One God; you do well: the devils also believe, and tremble! (James, 2: 19)

How Jesus (pbuh) commanded fear of God

According to the Gospel, Jesus commanded people to fear, not him, but God alone. Some Christians may claim that the subject is the three-in-one, for which reason Jesus is thus referring to himself. This confusion is of course something that only proponents of the Trinity can use to deceive people. Nobody with a strong conscience must be taken in by this deception, however. The meaning of the passage is clear and explicit. Jesus is not calling on anyone to worship him. On the contrary, he calls on them to turn to God, the One and Only, alone.

[Jesus:] Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One Who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew, 10:28)

How Jesus (pbuh) commanded people to love God

In the Gospel, Jesus also constantly desires people to turn to and love God.

"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'" (Mark, 12:29-30)

How Jesus (pbuh) commanded people to beseech God

Under the error of the Trinity, the person to whom prayers should be addressed is Jesus. And present-day proponents of the Trinity do indeed pray to Jesus. In the Gospel, however, Jesus personally says that prayer should be addressed to God. There is no doubt about that command. Nowhere in the Gospel does Jesus tell people that they need to turn to him into order to pray to God. He advises them to pray directly to God. Confused and misleading ideas such as the need for intermediaries in order to pray and that prayers can reach God only through Jesus are fabrications by Trinitarians. The passages from the Gospel are clear to anyone looking with the eyes of the heart and of logic.

Then he [Jesus] said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field." (Matthew, 9:37-38)

How Jesus (pbuh) said that God alone should be served

In the Gospel, Jesus calls on people to serve God, not him. Those who seek to misinterpret these statements by Jesus to the effect that he is referring to himself are those people who seek to include the Trinity in the Gospel. The passage is explicit; like the Prophets Abraham, Moses and Muhammad, Jesus (peace be upon them all) preaches the message sent to him as a beloved prophet of God and calls on people to serve God.

Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only." (Luke, 4:8, Matthew, 4:10)

Like everyone else, Jesus (pbuh) is a servant of God. The Gospel contains many passages to the effect that Jesus is a human being and that he fulfilled the duties of a servant. These passages from the Gospel therefore invalidate the idea of divinity ascribed to Jesus (surely God is beyond that).

How Jesus (pbuh) commanded people to believe in God

In the Gospel, Jesus performs the duty of prophethood bestowed on him and calls on people to believe in God.

"Have faith in God," Jesus answered. (Mark 11:22)

How Jesus (pbuh) recommended that everything be done for God's approval

In the Gospel, Jesus advises people to act for God's approval, not for his. This means it is Almighty God's approval that people must seek, not that of Jesus.

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)

He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. (Romans 14:6-8)

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward... (Colossians 3:23-24)

Jesus always told those around him that only our Lord God was to be praised and lauded, and encouraged them to praise and laud Him. Jesus does not refer to himself in these passages from the Gospel. Such an interpretation appears nowhere in these passages. Jesus says that the knowledge he possesses belongs, not to himself but to God, and he encourages people to turn directly to our Lord God.How Jesus (pbuh) encouraged people to praise and laud God alone

The Jews there were amazed and asked, "How did this man get such learning without having been taught?"Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from the One Who sent me. Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the One Who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him." (John, 7:15-18)

As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" ... Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone." (Mark, 10:17-18)

How Jesus (pbuh) obeyed God

Jesus says in the Gospel that he is a servant of God, that he was sent as a prophet and that, as required by his being a prophet, he has a responsibility to obey God's commands. He says that he does nothing of himself and that he fulfills the tasks given to him by Almighty God.

An omnipotent God rules His creations as described in the verse from the Koran "When He decides on something, He just says to it, 'Be!' and it is." (Koran, 2:117). Jesus is a servant who knows this and who obeys God.

Jesus praises the greatness of God, the Creator, in just about everything he says and states that he is obeying His commands. There is therefore nothing in Jesus' words in the Gospel on this subject to support the idea of the Trinity.

[Jesus:] "... For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of Him Who sent me." (John, 6:38)

[Jesus:] "By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but Him Who sent me." (John, 5:30)

How Jesus (pbuh) said that he worked miracles by God's leave

God is of course the sole Ruler. And God, the Lord of All, is also the Lord of Jesus whom He sent as a prophet. Jesus of course knows that everything he does, he does by our Lord's leave. A great many passages in the Gospel show that Jesus spoke in the awareness of that, that he praised God and called people to Him.

... And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. (Luke, 5:17)

Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under His power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; (John, 13:3)

Some Christians may interpret these statements from the Gospel as follows: "Jesus had both divine and human characteristics. It is therefore normal for him to have exhibited human ones." This interpretation perfectly illustrates the logical collapse at the root of the belief in the Trinity. How can an entity with human characteristics, created with the weaknesses demanded by the life of this world be divine? How can such an idea be acceptable to people who claim to love God? God is Almighty, He Who creates the deficiencies in this world as a test, although He Himself is unfettered by any deficiencies. As we have stressed many times and will be looking at in later sections of this book, the problem is one of a failure to understand the might of God and to properly appreciate Him.

All statements based on the Gospel clearly show that Jesus is a loyal and obedient servant of God and a human being. These statements cited in the Gospel have gradually been filtered through the illogicality of the Trinity, and attempts have been made to make the words of the Gospel compatible with Trinitarian doctrine through confusing interpretations. The fact is, however, that when someone who has not been exposed to this deceptive indoctrination looks at the Gospel he can easily see that Jesus is a servant and a human being. Such a person can easily see what a forced interpretation the idea of the Trinity is. He will be astonished at the way such a concept as the Trinity could have emerged from such explicit statements. Therefore, looked at with a clear mind and an unbiased perspective, every Christian will see that the Gospel contains nothing about the Trinity in any form and that, on the contrary, as shown by the passages quoted above, it is in fact full of statements that explicitly refute the idea of the Trinity.

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Christians Must Heed Jesus

The Term "Son" in the Gospel Must be Evaluated Through Esoteric Interpretation

It needs to be made clear that a lack of esoteric interpretation appears in various forms in Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Therefore, we should not regard this as a deficiency peculiar to Christians alone. However, given the subject matter, we shall be discussing only that part that involves our Christian brothers here.

Being able to perform esoteric interpretation is of paramount importance in terms of the errors in which some of our Christian brothers find themselves. The superstitious belief that Jesus (pbuh) is the son of God, which has persisted for hundreds of years (surely God is beyond that) is a very significant and major error that stems from a lack of esoteric interpretation. The term "the son of God," which appears in the Gospel and, as discussed above, in the Torah, has been considered in the literal sense alone and interpreted without proper consideration of its deeper meanings.

As we have already seen, however, the term "son" here refers to spiritual proximity to God, love, friendship and being chosen. It is a rather profound reference to being a beloved and chosen servant of God.

Christians must understand that the term "the son of God" has no physical meaning, but rather emphasizes a servant's closeness to God. When they look at the matter using esoteric interpretation they will better understand that a very different and profound message is being imparted through this form of address.

Evidence from the Gospel That Jesus (pbuh) Is Not the Son of God

Some Christians may think that only the Koran reveals that Jesus was merely a servant of God. The fact is, however, that Christians' own book, the Gospel, explicitly states, and in various ways, that Jesus was a human being who was tested, prayed, ate, slept when tired and served God. No matter how strongly Christians who believe in the Trinity resist the evidence Muslims bring against the Trinity, Christians' own book, the Gospel, says that Jesus is not the son of God. Every mind and conscience that is free from conditioning and prejudice will immediately understand these explicit and clear words of the Koran.

Evidence from the Gospel that Jesus is not the son of God, merely a human being who serves Him, is as follows:

The birth, lineage and family of Jesus (pbuh)

Historical information shows that Jesus is descended from the Prophet David (pbuh). Jesus is known to the people. The people know who he is descended from and where he was born and grew up. The people are also well acquainted with Jesus' family. Therefore he, like all other human beings, is someone with a specific lineage and birth:

He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David (as He said through His holy prophets of long ago), salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us— (Luke 1: 69-71)

This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham: (Matthew 1: 1)

The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!" When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, "Who is this?" The crowds answered, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee." (Matthew 21: 9-11)

"Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?"... (Mark 6: 3)

The human characteristics of Jesus (pbuh)

The fact that Jesus is a human being is a crucial matter that utterly discredits the idea of the Trinity. No matter how much the proponents of the three-in-one suggest the superficial logic that Jesus is a material entity in this world, that he assumed human form in other words, this does not eliminate the fact that Jesus having human characteristics like everyone else totally invalidates the idea of the Trinity: Angels can also assume human form, yet as a manifestation of their superior creation they have no need to eat or rest. That being the case, it is a terrible thing to maintain, may God forbid, that a god could appear on Earth with such human needs (surely God is beyond that).

The information provided about Jesus in the Gospel makes it clear that this worthy person is "a blessed messenger of God, not His son." He lived just like everyone else. Like other human beings, he was born and went through infancy, childhood and adolescence. When he felt the need to eat, he gave thanks to God and ate, together with the disciples. Like everyone else, he became tired at the end of a long day and felt the urge to sleep. In addition, the Gospel says that Jesus had physical needs such as washing and keeping himself clean. Such human attributes totally invalidate the idea of the Trinity. Since Jesus was a servant and a prophet, and since he was tested like everyone else, he was created with human characteristics and needs. The place where needs and deficiencies no longer apply is, of course, paradise.

Some passages from the Gospel regarding the human features of Jesus and that disprove his supposed divine status are as follows:

And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. (Luke 2: 52)

When he [Jesus] was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. (Luke 24:30)

And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence. (Luke 24: 41-43)

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?" (Matthew 26: 17)

While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house,... (Mark 2: 15)

Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. (Mark 3: 20)

While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, "Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me." (Mark 14: 18)

When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table. (Luke 7: 36)

... Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" (John 4: 6-7)

Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion... (Mark 4: 38)

Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he [Jesus] said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest." (Mark 6: 31)

...Tired of the voyage he made, Jesus sat near the well.... (John, 4: 4)

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Christians Must See the Importance of Esoteric Interpretations

The greatest error into which some sincere Christians fall in interpreting the references to the "son" in the Torah is to evaluate these references in the literal sense and not to look at the hidden meaning. They make the same mistake in evaluating the words of the Gospel. The fact is, however, that esoteric interpretation is an important secret to understanding the word of God and a requirement for deep reflection.

God's words are explicit, accessible, pithy and wise. However, our Almighty Lord sometimes employs explicit terms and at other times esoteric ones (equivocal wording or statements requiring interpretation at different levels). In order to be able to see the deep meanings and secrets in these wise words, we need to be able to look at them through the eyes of faith; that is esoteric interpretation.

Our Almighty Lord sometimes imparts these deep meanings through metaphor and simile. For example, in one verse of the Koran God says, "Hold fast to the rope of God all together, and do not separate..." (Koran, 3:103), and in another verse He says, "As for those who deny Our signs and are arrogant regarding them, the Gates of Heaven will not be opened for them, and they will not enter the Garden until a camel goes through a needle's eye..." (Koran, 7:40)

The verses in question may be interpreted in their literal senses by some people. In fact, however, the metaphors in both are exceedingly wise and contain meanings that grow deeper the more one reflects on them. Our Lord's reference to "the rope of God" advises people to cling tightly to Him and the path He shows, and to exhibit determination on the subject. Our Lord's reference to a camel passing through the eye of a needle neatly describes how the people in question will be unable to enter paradise - unless God so wishes. This is an extremely fine and profound description. But in order to understand it properly, we also need to perform an esoteric interpretation.

This applies to the Gospel and the Torah, as well as to the Koran. One wise passage from the Gospel requiring esoteric interpretation is this:

This is why I speak to them in parables:
"Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:" 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.' (Matthew 13:13-15)

We can cite other examples from the Torah:

Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see… Seeing many things, you observe not; opening the ears, he hears not. (Isaiah, 42:18, 20)

The word of the Lord came to me: "Son of man, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people." (Ezekiel, 12:1-2)

A similar passage appears in the Koran:

Can you make the dead hear or guide the blind and those who are patently misguided? (Koran, 43:40)

Deaf, dumb, blind. They will not return.  (Koran, 2:18)

These passages from the Gospel, the Koran and the Torah do not, of course, refer to a physical blindness or deafness. What is being emphasized here is a spiritual blindness, deafness and dumbness. The people being referred to here are those who are still unable to see the existence of God even though all the evidence is there and constantly being laid out before their eyes, people who are unable to properly appreciate God. God curses these people with their spiritual blindness and deafness.

If this is taken in the classic sense of blindness and deafness, that will of course lead to very incorrect interpretations. It is very important to be able to perform esoteric interpretation in order to avoid these false analyses because through these profound meanings, God is giving us very great and important messages, and secrets that will lead people to the true path.

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Section 2: Almighty God Has No Children

Almighty God is the Lord of all entities and all creation. God is unfettered by any natural causes, because He is the Creator of all that happens and the natural causes behind them. Everything in the universe takes place in association with specific causes. But our Lord has no need of these causes. Our Lord also created situations associated with human life such as parenthood, childhood and having children. Those who say that "God has a child" (surely God is beyond that) therefore fail to grasp the sublimity and attributes of God. Our Almighty Lord just decides on something and wills it to be to create it. Nothing is distant from Him. He is the One Who best knows His creations and predestines everything before their creation.

Those who attribute a son to God are people who do not know or cannot grasp these attributes of God as is due. As has already been mentioned, God reveals the effrontery of those who are unable to appreciate our Lord in these verses from the Koran:

They say, "The All-Merciful has a son."

They have devised a monstrous thing.

The heavens are all but rent apart and the Earth split open and the mountains brought crashing down, at their ascription of a son to the All-Merciful!

It is not fitting for the All-Merciful to have a son.

There is no one in the heavens and Earth who will not come to the All-Merciful as a servant. (Koran, 19:88-93)

As these verses clearly show, attributing a child to God is a grave offense, severe enough to bring the whole universe crashing down, and deserving the wrath of our Lord. Several verses of the Koran emphasize the fact that our Lord has no children. Verses explicitly state that our Lord is unfettered by having children, that "He has not given birth and was not born," and that nothing can be His equivalent:

Say: "He is God, Absolute Oneness, God, the Everlasting Sustainer of all. He has not given birth and was not born. And no one is comparable to Him." (Koran, 112:1-4)

No indeed, it is one of their blatant lies to say, "God has given birth." They are truly liars. (Koran, 37:151-152)

They say, "God has a son." Glory be to Him! He is the Rich Beyond Need. Everything in the heavens and everything on the Earth belongs to Him. Have you authority to say this or are you saying about God what you do not know? (Koran, 10:68)

If God had desired to have a son He would have chosen whatever He wished from what He has created. Glory be to Him! He is God, the One, the All-Conquering. (Koran, 39:4)

Our Lord is the absolute Ruler of the entire universe. Our Lord has no need of any partner or helper (surely God is beyond that). When He wishes a thing He tells it to "Be," and it is. As God reveals in verses:

He to Whom the Kingdom of the heavens and the Earth belongs. He does not have a son and He has no partner in the Kingdom. He created everything and determined it most exactly. (Koran, 25:2)

And say: "Praise be to God Who has had no son and Who has no partner in His Kingdom and Who needs no one to protect Him from abasement." And proclaim His Greatness repeatedly! (Koran, 17:111)

It is not fitting for God to have a son. Glory be to Him! When He decides on something, He just says to it, "Be!" and it is. (Koran, 19:35)

Almighty God reveals that He is warning those who say, "God has a son" through the Koran. This means that the Koran will show the true path to those Christians who have fallen into error regarding the Trinity. God prevents them from committing this major error by means of the Koran:

[This Koran is] to warn those who say "God has a son." They have no knowledge of this, neither they nor their fathers. It is a monstrous utterance which has issued from their mouths. What they say is nothing but a lie. (Koran, 18:4-5)

The above verses also set out how neither those who claim that God had a son nor those who went before them had any information on the subject, in other words, that this is a complete deception. God describes the danger posed by this ignorantly fabricated claim in the words, "It is a monstrous utterance which has issued from their mouths."

No, God is your Protector. And He is the best of helpers. 
(Koran, 3:150)

One verse in which our Lord says He has no son also states that there is no other deity than God:

God has no son and there is no other god accompanying Him, for then each god would have gone off with what he created and one of them would have been exalted above the other. Glory be to God above what they describe. (Koran, 23:91)

This verse totally discredits both claims made by those Christians who believe in the Trinity – that Jesus (pbuh) is the son of God and that he has divine status.

In the Koran, Almighty God revealed to our Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) that he should respond as follows to those who make such claims:

Say: "If the All-Merciful had a son, I would be the first to worship him." (Koran, 43:81)

"Failing to properly appreciate God" means not comprehending the sublime attributes of God set out in verses. If someone goes along with belief in the Trinity, then he cannot have understood that God rules all things, that He has no need of instruments or helpers in order to create, that God could have a child if He wished but that He is unfettered by this, that He just says to it "Be" when He desires a thing and that all things in the earth and sky have submitted to His command. God has no need of creating any other deities from His essence. God knows what will be born before it is born, what will be said before it is spoken, what will be seen before people look and what is hidden in their hearts. In short, He knows everything from the beginning of time to the end. Our Lord reveals in one verse:

God, there is no deity but Him, the Living, the Self-Sustaining. He is not subject to drowsiness or sleep. Everything in the heavens and the Earth belongs to Him. Who can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is before them and what is behind them but they cannot grasp any of His knowledge save what He wills. His Footstool encompasses the heavens and the Earth and their preservation does not tire Him. He is the Most High, the Magnificent. (Koran, 2:255)

God's infinite might and power appears as follows in passages from the Gospel:

... Who is God over-all, forever praised. (Romans, 9:5)

... Great and marvelous are Your deeds, Lord God Almighty.... (Revelations, 15:3)

For no word from God will ever fail. (Luke, 1:37)

... for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. (Romans, 13:1)

For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen. (Romans, 11:36)

Everything is submitted to Him. Nothing is left to its own devices. It is incumbent upon every entity to obey our Lord. God possesses a devastating, great and sublime might:

… when everything in the heavens and Earth, willingly or unwillingly, submits to Him … (Koran, 3:83)

Jesus (pbuh) Is a Servant Who Lives by a Profound Love of God

Our Lord says in the Gospel:

When God raised up His servant, He sent him [Jesus] first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways. (Acts of the Apostles, 3:26)

In a verse from the Koran God says:

The Messiah would never disdain to be a servant to God nor would the angels near to Him. If any do disdain to worship Him, and grow arrogant, He will in any case gather them all to Him. (Koran, 4:172)

As passages from the Gospel and verses of the Koran make clear, Jesus is a servant of God and as explicitly stated in this verse from the Koran, he is a lovely human being who delights in being a servant of God, who has submitted to Him and who is devoted to Him with a deep passion. The duty of serving God, which he undertakes with a profound love of Him, is unacceptable for some Christians. They misinterpret and deny the duty of service to God that he discharges with love and great delight.

The great majority of those who deny, despite the passages from the Gospel that we shall be examining in detail, that Jesus was created merely as a servant have probably fallen into that error out of ignorance. They imagine, out of their love for Jesus, that if they were to admit that he was a "servant" he would in some way become less valuable and they would be lacking in the appropriate respect for him. Yet the duty of service that Jesus discharged with love and enthusiasm, as an act of worship, was actually a great blessing for him and takes nothing away from his worth. On the contrary, service to God with such a great love made Jesus many times more valuable, raised his station in paradise and made him the beloved of masses of people. Being a servant and prophet who seeks to please God, being someone with a profound intelligence who praised and believed in God unconditionally throughout his life is the greatest of blessings for Jesus.

The fact that Jesus was created solely as a servant of God is also confirmed in other verses:

He [Jesus] said, "I am the servant of God, He has given me the Book and made me a Prophet." (Koran, 19:30)

It is revealed in another verse that Jesus is mortal and that, like all human beings, he will be resurrected in the hereafter:

"Peace be upon me the day I was born, and the day I die and the day I am raised up again alive." (Koran, 19:33)

When the time appointed by God comes, our beloved Prophet Jesus will be sent back down to Earth and will complete his work as messenger, together with Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), in the manner commanded by God. (This will be discussed in later sections of this book). Once Jesus (pbuh) has completed his duty in this world he will pass on, just like every other mortal human being, and his soul will be taken to paradise. Just as with everyone else, it is God Who creates his whole destiny, everything that will happen to him throughout his life. It is also God Who creates all the miracles he worked. Jesus performed these, not through himself, but through God's mercy on him. Throughout his life of this world, he expressed a powerful faith in God and called people to His straight path. It is a fact explicitly set out in the Gospel that Jesus called on people to believe in and serve God:

Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.'" (Luke, 4: 8)

This is how the Koran reveals that Jesus called on people to believe in God:

God is my Lord and your Lord so worship Him. This is a straight path. (Koran, 19:36)

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