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[6] [7] Christians view Jesus as a role model, whose God-focused life believers are encouraged to imitate. In Islam, Jesus (commonly transliterated as Isa) is the Messiah and one of God's highest-ranked and most-beloved prophets. Islam considers Jesus to be neither the incarnation nor the Son of God. He is referred to as the son of Mary in the ...
While Christianity and Islam hold their recollections of Jesus's teachings as gospel and share narratives from the first five books of the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible), the sacred text of Christianity also includes the later additions to the Bible while the primary sacred text of Islam instead is the Quran.
This question was actually reported to have been put across to Muhammad to which he replied: "The (people of the old age) used to give names (to their persons) after the names of Apostles and pious persons who had gone before them". [11] Luke 3:23: Job: ʾAyyūb: Iyyov: Job 1:1: Quran 6:84: John the Baptist: Yaḥyā: Yohanan
The virgin birth of Jesus is the Christian and Islamic teaching that Jesus was conceived by his mother, Mary, through the power of the Holy Spirit and without sexual intercourse. [ 1 ] Christians regard the doctrine as an explanation of the combination of the human and divine natures of Jesus .
According to Islam, Jesus never claimed to be divine. [66] Jesus' role in Muslim theology falls roughly under four types: [104] a perception based on fragments of the New Testament; anti-Jewish, exposing thieves, criminals, and liars (usually identified with Jews) an ascetic, based on monastic tradition; prevalent particularly in Sufi literature
For example, Abu Bakr al-Razi believed that the Gospels assert God has a thousand names, and authors like Al-Baghawi (d. 1122), Al-Khazin (d. 1340), and Al-Shawkani (d. 1834) believed that the first verse of the Torah was the Islamic phrase known as the Basmala ("In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate"). [31]
The appropriateness of grouping Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as "Abrahamic religions" and related terms has been challenged. [22] Adam Dodds argues that the term "Abrahamic faiths", while helpful, can be misleading, as it conveys an unspecified historical and theological commonality that is problematic on closer examination.
A number of Christians throughout history, such as John of Damascus (8th century) and John Calvin (16th century), have interpreted Muhammad as being the Antichrist of the New Testament. Muslim theologians have argued that a number of specific passages within the biblical text can be specifically identified as references to Muhammad, both in the ...