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Strive to be more like Jesus. Not the Jesus that’s in the quran or any other religious text. The One and only True Jesus is found in The Bible. The New Testament is about Him and his message. The Old Testament references Him time and time again.
@MasterMaliq I never presented it as a general or orthodox interpretation of Islamic doctrine. I was simply curious what you thought of Muslims who now make that claim. There is no need to answer defensively. It was neither a trap nor a provocation, only a question of genuine curiosity.
Shared Semitic root is not a shared revelation.
Yes, Elah, Eloah, Elohim, and Allah travel the same ancient corridor of language. Yes, Jesus cried Eloi from the cross, the Aramaic of Psalm 22. Yes, Genesis speaks Elohim thirty-five times before the tetragrammaton appears in 2:4. Yes, Exodus 6:3 says the patriarchs knew God as El Shaddai more than they had yet experienced the covenant name in its redeeming fullness. These observations are not trivial. They are simply not decisive.
A generic noun for “the deity” can be borrowed by any tongue. A memorial name spoken as eternal cannot.
When the Voice answered Moses, it did not offer a common noun that any desert already possessed. It offered existence itself: I AM WHO I AM. Then it bound that existence to a particular history: “YHWH, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial unto all generations.”
Forever is not a translation note. It is a claim that the Name would not be folded into a later generic title and called the same.
The New Testament never writes the four letters because it was written in Greek, following the Jewish reverence that already rendered YHWH as Kyrios. That substitution is not absence. It is continuity. The same writers then take the Kyrios passages of Isaiah and apply them to Jesus without remainder. Every knee will bow, every tongue confess not to a new god, but to the Name that was already holy.
The cry from the cross is not a linguistic concession to Allah. It is the righteous sufferer of Psalm 22 addressing the God of Israel while the psalm itself moves from dereliction to worldwide praise.
Yeshua means “YHWH saves.” That is not a coincidence of naming conventions shared with Joshua and Isaiah. It is the memorial becoming flesh.
The God who refused to give His glory to another did not later absorb that glory into a title that never once utters the Name He swore would stand for all generations.
The verses that say God is not a man were never written to forbid the Word becoming flesh. They were written to forbid the idea that the Holy One lies, changes His mind, or can be reduced to a creature.
The incarnation does not reduce God to a man. It is the eternal Son taking human nature without ceasing to be what He is. That is why the earliest Jewish believers did not think they had borrowed a pagan sequel. They thought the promises had kept their appointment.
Ishmael was blessed. The covenant of promise was still spoken through Isaac. A great nation is not the same as the memorial Name.
A title any language can use is not the Name the fire spoke and then became a Savior. The memorial still stands. It was never lost. It was kept until it walked among us.
I find it rather striking that some Muslims so readily quote the Bible, the very book they insist has been corrupted beyond recognition.
If a text has been so thoroughly distorted, why appeal to it at all?
They often add that certain portions remain intact while others do not, yet they seldom specify which passages belong to which category.
One cannot help suspecting that the parts deemed authentic are simply those that prove convenient, while the inconvenient ones are dismissed as corrupted. Precisely which verses fall where remains, I confess, a mystery to me.
Rather amusing, in its way. 🤭
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I give the same energy to Muslims crowding that black stone as I give Catholics who kiss statues. Trust me bro, this is the same thing.
You can announce all day that the rock has no power to help or harm. Umar himself had to say it out loud while his mouth was on it but the body is still treating a stone as if it were a meeting place with God. The lips do not lie even when the tongue does.
The idea is to graduate. To grow past needing a special cube in the desert, a particular direction, a fragment of rock, or any other prop before the heart will consent to worship. Until a man can stand in a restroom, a field, or the quiet of his own chest and still meet the Most High without an object, a ritual object, or a holy geography to lean on, it is not yet the worship He wants. Period.
Muslims don’t worship the Black Stone.
Kissing it isn’t a pillar of Hajj, and the stone has no power to help or harm anyone.
Calling it “stone worship” because Muslims kiss it is simply misunderstanding Islam.
I give the same energy to Muslims crowding that black stone as I give Catholics who kiss statues. Trust me bro, this is the same thing.
You can announce all day that the rock has no power to help or harm. Umar himself had to say it out loud while his mouth was on it but the body is still treating a stone as if it were a meeting place with God. The lips do not lie even when the tongue does.
The idea is to graduate. To grow past needing a special cube in the desert, a particular direction, a fragment of rock, or any other prop before the heart will consent to worship. Until a man can stand in a restroom, a field, or the quiet of his own chest and still meet the Most High without an object, a ritual object, or a holy geography to lean on, it is not yet the worship He wants. Period.
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It almost seems like a desperate plea when I read posts like these. I have read and studied both the Quran and the Bible extensively, and the Bible surpasses the Quran in historical coherence, narrative depth, and the weight of its central message.
The Quran repeatedly retells stories already present in the Torah and the New Testament, yet it does so with compressed, altered, and often internally inconsistent versions of those same accounts.
What is presented as a final, clarifying revelation frequently reads instead as a later, less precise recasting of earlier scriptures rather than an independent or superior original.
So yes, reading and studying both leaves me with this conclusion: the Bible is the more authentic witness. I am a Christian, and I will remain one. As for Islam: thanks, but no thanks.
A word is not a covenant.
“Allah” is Arabic for the god. It is a title the desert already knew, a designation any tongue can borrow. It is not the Name spoken from the fire that would not be consumed.
When Moses asked, “Who shall I say sent me?” the Voice did not answer with a common noun. He answered with Himself:
I AM WHO I AM.
Then He sealed it:
YHWH, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial unto all generations.
(Exodus 3:14–15)
Forever. Not until another language arrives. Not until another book claims to confirm Moses while leaving the Name He swore would never be forgotten off every page.
He said it again:
I am the LORD; that is My name. I will not give My glory to another.
(Isaiah 42:8)
A memorial spoken as eternal cannot be folded into a generic word and called the same. A glory He refuses to share cannot be absorbed by a title that never once utters YHWH.
Allah is not the Christian God.
If the Voice from the bush is the same Voice that later spoke in Arabic, why is the Name He called His own forever absent from the book that claims to stand in Moses’ line? He did not misplace it. The world did.
And then the Name returned, not as a syllable carved in stone, but as a Savior walking among us.
Jesus.
YHWH saves.
The memorial still stands.
The Name was never lost.
It was kept until it became flesh.
To insult a title is not to insult the God who named Himself. The God of the bush already told us His Name. He has not asked us to forget it.
Your claim is simple and sweeping: Muhammad is the biblical Son of Man. He sits at God’s right hand. He divides the nations. He holds the keys of paradise. He intercedes for the holy ones.
It is a beautiful sentence. It is also a borrowed crown.
The title “Son of Man” is not a compliment you can move from one man to another like a medal. In Scripture it is a portrait. And portraits have faces.
Let me show you what the vision actually shows:
In Daniel 7 a storm of beasts rises from the sea. Then the court of heaven sits. Then one “like a son of man” comes with the clouds of heaven to the Ancient of Days. He is given dominion, glory, and a kingdom. All peoples, nations, and languages serve him. His rule does not pass away.
Two details are easy to miss and hard to erase.
First, cloud-riding in the Hebrew Bible is not how prophets travel. It is how God travels. “He makes the clouds his chariot.” That is the old language of the Lord himself.
Second, the word used for the nations “serving” this figure is the same word Daniel uses for the worship of God. The vision does not show a preacher receiving honor. It shows a human-looking figure receiving the honor heaven gives to God.
Jesus took that portrait and put it on himself in the most dangerous place possible: before the high priest, under oath, on the night of his trial. “You will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.” The priest tore his clothes. He understood the claim. It was not “I am a respected teacher.” It was “the vision is about me.��
Then the Gospels keep painting the same face. The Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne and separate the nations as a shepherd separates sheep from goats. The Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. The Son of Man came to give his life as a ransom. The risen Christ says he holds the keys of death and Hades. Stephen, dying, sees the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God. This is not a loose nickname. It is one person, one office, one story.
And this is why the transfer does not work:
Muhammad never called himself the Son of Man. The Qur’an never calls him that. The phrase does not appear there at all. When the Qur’an speaks of Jesus, it calls him the Messiah, son of Mary, a word from God, a spirit from Him and it keeps him human. That is its point.
The Bible’s Daniel vision moves in the opposite direction: a figure who looks human and is treated as more than a messenger.
The “evidence” offered for the transfer is later Islamic report, not the vision itself.
One report says Muhammad will sit before the Lord on the kursi. Another says the keys of paradise are in his hand. Another says he is first across the bridge. These are claims about Muhammad’s honor on the Last Day. They are not Daniel 7. They are not Matthew 25. They do not come with clouds. They do not receive the worship of all nations. They do not identify a man who already, in the first century, applied the vision to himself and was killed for it.
Even inside Islamic scholarship the throne claim is not settled. There is no clear verse of the Qur’an that seats Muhammad on God’s own throne as co-occupant.
Several of the reports used for that picture are stopped at companions, disputed in their chains, or read by other scholars as a pulpit, a station, or a place of intercession, not shared divine rule.
That internal debate is itself a quiet confession: the image is too high for tawhid to wear comfortably.
And here the argument turns against itself. The Qur’an and the hadiths forbade that Muhammad be exalted into that kind of glory. The book itself keeps saying he is a man.
Your claim is simple and sweeping: Muhammad is the biblical Son of Man. He sits at God’s right hand. He divides the nations. He holds the keys of paradise. He intercedes for the holy ones.
It is a beautiful sentence. It is also a borrowed crown.
The title “Son of Man” is not a compliment you can move from one man to another like a medal. In Scripture it is a portrait. And portraits have faces.
Let me show you what the vision actually shows:
In Daniel 7 a storm of beasts rises from the sea. Then the court of heaven sits. Then one “like a son of man” comes with the clouds of heaven to the Ancient of Days. He is given dominion, glory, and a kingdom. All peoples, nations, and languages serve him. His rule does not pass away.
Two details are easy to miss and hard to erase.
First, cloud-riding in the Hebrew Bible is not how prophets travel. It is how God travels. “He makes the clouds his chariot.” That is the old language of the Lord himself.
Second, the word used for the nations “serving” this figure is the same word Daniel uses for the worship of God. The vision does not show a preacher receiving honor. It shows a human-looking figure receiving the honor heaven gives to God.
Jesus took that portrait and put it on himself in the most dangerous place possible: before the high priest, under oath, on the night of his trial. “You will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.” The priest tore his clothes. He understood the claim. It was not “I am a respected teacher.” It was “the vision is about me.��
Then the Gospels keep painting the same face. The Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne and separate the nations as a shepherd separates sheep from goats. The Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. The Son of Man came to give his life as a ransom. The risen Christ says he holds the keys of death and Hades. Stephen, dying, sees the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God. This is not a loose nickname. It is one person, one office, one story.
And this is why the transfer does not work:
Muhammad never called himself the Son of Man. The Qur’an never calls him that. The phrase does not appear there at all. When the Qur’an speaks of Jesus, it calls him the Messiah, son of Mary, a word from God, a spirit from Him and it keeps him human. That is its point.
The Bible’s Daniel vision moves in the opposite direction: a figure who looks human and is treated as more than a messenger.
The “evidence” offered for the transfer is later Islamic report, not the vision itself.
One report says Muhammad will sit before the Lord on the kursi. Another says the keys of paradise are in his hand. Another says he is first across the bridge. These are claims about Muhammad’s honor on the Last Day. They are not Daniel 7. They are not Matthew 25. They do not come with clouds. They do not receive the worship of all nations. They do not identify a man who already, in the first century, applied the vision to himself and was killed for it.
Even inside Islamic scholarship the throne claim is not settled. There is no clear verse of the Qur’an that seats Muhammad on God’s own throne as co-occupant.
Several of the reports used for that picture are stopped at companions, disputed in their chains, or read by other scholars as a pulpit, a station, or a place of intercession, not shared divine rule.
That internal debate is itself a quiet confession: the image is too high for tawhid to wear comfortably.
And here the argument turns against itself. The Qur’an and the hadiths forbade that Muhammad be exalted into that kind of glory. The book itself keeps saying he is a man.
“Muhammad is no more than a messenger. Messengers have passed away before him” (Qur’an 3:144). “Say: I am only a man like you, to whom it has been revealed that your God is one God” (Qur’an 18:110; see also 41:6). “Say: I have no power to benefit or harm myself, except as God wills” (Qur’an 7:188). That is not the language of the cloud-figure who receives the service of every nation.
The most famous warning is even sharper. In Sahih al-Bukhari 3445, Umar reports that the Prophet said: “Do not exaggerate in praising me as the Christians praised the son of Mary, for I am only a slave. So call me the slave of Allah and His Messenger.” The hadith exists because the danger was already visible: love turning into elevation. Islam’s own sources draw a line and tell the community not to cross it.
If the Son of Man of Daniel is served by every nation with the service due to God, and if that figure sits with God on the throne, then calling Muhammad that figure does not protect monotheism. It places a man where Islam refuses to place any man and where Muhammad, according to the hadith above, refused to be placed.
The Qur’an says intercession belongs to God, except by His leave. The Qur’an says the Messiah was a messenger who ate food. The Qur’an has Jesus deny that he asked to be taken as a god. You cannot lift Muhammad into Daniel’s cloud-chariot without giving him the very honor the Qur’an will not give Jesus, and the very praise the hadith tells Muslims not to give Muhammad.
What each book actually does with Jesus is this:
The Qur’an does not make Muhammad the end-time judge of the nations in Daniel’s language. It does something else, and it is striking.
It makes Jesus a sign of the Hour. It says the People of the Book will believe in him before his death, and that he will be a witness against them on the Day of Resurrection.
In Islam’s own telling, Jesus is still ahead of the story. He is not a closed chapter that Muhammad replaced. He returns. He witnesses. The Last Day still has his name on it.
The New Testament is simpler still. The man who spoke of the Son of Man coming in glory is the same man who said the Son of Man must suffer, be killed, and rise. That pattern belongs to Jesus or it belongs to no one.
Muhammad did not walk it. The Qur’an says Jesus did not walk it either. The Gospels say he did and then they show him alive, speaking of authority that only the cloud-figure in Daniel could hold.
So my refutation to your claim is not complicated.
Daniel shows a human-like figure who comes with God’s clouds and receives God’s honor.
Jesus claimed that figure in public, under judgment, and the church from the first generation prayed to him and waited for him as that figure.
Muhammad did not claim the title. The Qur’an did not give it to him. The Qur’an and hadith told his followers not to raise him the way
Christians raised Jesus. The later reports that try to dress him in Daniel’s robes either fall short of the vision or rise so high they collide with Islam’s own confession that God does not share his throne.
Truth does not need to steal a name to shine. If Muhammad is to be honored, let him be honored as the Qur’an honors him: a messenger.
The Son of Man already has a face in history. He already has words in the record. He already has a throne in the vision. The nations are not waiting for a seventh-century substitute to sit down there. The seat was taken. The clouds already had a rider.
Your claim is simple and sweeping: Muhammad is the biblical Son of Man. He sits at God’s right hand. He divides the nations. He holds the keys of paradise. He intercedes for the holy ones.
It is a beautiful sentence. It is also a borrowed crown.
The title “Son of Man” is not a compliment you can move from one man to another like a medal. In Scripture it is a portrait. And portraits have faces.
Let me show you what the vision actually shows:
In Daniel 7 a storm of beasts rises from the sea. Then the court of heaven sits. Then one “like a son of man” comes with the clouds of heaven to the Ancient of Days. He is given dominion, glory, and a kingdom. All peoples, nations, and languages serve him. His rule does not pass away.
Two details are easy to miss and hard to erase.
First, cloud-riding in the Hebrew Bible is not how prophets travel. It is how God travels. “He makes the clouds his chariot.” That is the old language of the Lord himself.
Second, the word used for the nations “serving” this figure is the same word Daniel uses for the worship of God. The vision does not show a preacher receiving honor. It shows a human-looking figure receiving the honor heaven gives to God.
Jesus took that portrait and put it on himself in the most dangerous place possible: before the high priest, under oath, on the night of his trial. “You will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.” The priest tore his clothes. He understood the claim. It was not “I am a respected teacher.” It was “the vision is about me.”
Then the Gospels keep painting the same face. The Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne and separate the nations as a shepherd separates sheep from goats. The Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. The Son of Man came to give his life as a ransom. The risen Christ says he holds the keys of death and Hades. Stephen, dying, sees the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God. This is not a loose nickname. It is one person, one office, one story.
And this is why the transfer does not work:
Muhammad never called himself the Son of Man. The Qur’an never calls him that. The phrase does not appear there at all. When the Qur’an speaks of Jesus, it calls him the Messiah, son of Mary, a word from God, a spirit from Him and it keeps him human. That is its point.
The Bible’s Daniel vision moves in the opposite direction: a figure who looks human and is treated as more than a messenger.
The “evidence” offered for the transfer is later Islamic report, not the vision itself.
One report says Muhammad will sit before the Lord on the kursi. Another says the keys of paradise are in his hand. Another says he is first across the bridge. These are claims about Muhammad’s honor on the Last Day. They are not Daniel 7. They are not Matthew 25. They do not come with clouds. They do not receive the worship of all nations. They do not identify a man who already, in the first century, applied the vision to himself and was killed for it.
Even inside Islamic scholarship the throne claim is not settled. There is no clear verse of the Qur’an that seats Muhammad on God’s own throne as co-occupant.
Several of the reports used for that picture are stopped at companions, disputed in their chains, or read by other scholars as a pulpit, a station, or a place of intercession, not shared divine rule.
That internal debate is itself a quiet confession: the image is too high for tawhid to wear comfortably.
And here the argument turns against itself. The Qur’an and the hadiths forbade that Muhammad be exalted into that kind of glory. The book itself keeps saying he is a man.
Muhammed ﷺ is The Son of Man who will sit at the right hand of God with him on his throne.
Muhammed ﷺ is The Son of Man who will separate the sheep from the goats. He is the beloved who holds the keys of paradise.
Muhammed ﷺ is The Son of Man who will intercede for the saints of the Most High on the day of reckoning.
I find it rather striking that some Muslims so readily quote the Bible, the very book they insist has been corrupted beyond recognition.
If a text has been so thoroughly distorted, why appeal to it at all?
They often add that certain portions remain intact while others do not, yet they seldom specify which passages belong to which category.
One cannot help suspecting that the parts deemed authentic are simply those that prove convenient, while the inconvenient ones are dismissed as corrupted. Precisely which verses fall where remains, I confess, a mystery to me.
Rather amusing, in its way. 🤭
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You cannot take one quote from each book and call them the same. A single surface resemblance is not identity.
There are hundreds of differences between the Bible and the Qur’an. The most important one is who Jesus really is.
Their core doctrines are not the same. The Jesus of the Bible is God who became flesh and came to save the world. The Qur’an strips Him of that mission: it denies His divinity, denies the cross as atonement, and reduces Him to a created prophet.
Family order may look similar in two isolated sentences but they are not the same.
One book presents a Savior. The other does not. That difference cannot be papered over.
Jesus: “The husband is the head of the wife.” — Ephesians 5:23
Quran: “Men are in charge of women.” — Quran 4:34
Different prophets. Different scriptures. Yet the message is strikingly similar.
The message of Jesus is the message of Muhammad.💯
You cannot take one quote from each book and call them the same. A single surface resemblance is not identity.
There are hundreds of differences between the Bible and the Qur’an. The most important one is who Jesus really is.
Their core doctrines are not the same. The Jesus of the Bible is God who became flesh and came to save the world. The Qur’an strips Him of that mission: it denies His divinity, denies the cross as atonement, and reduces Him to a created prophet.
Family order may look similar in two isolated sentences but they are not the same.
One book presents a Savior. The other does not. That difference cannot be papered over.
A threat is when someone claims the power to inflict harm.
A warning is when someone points to a danger they believe already exists.
Christians do not threaten eternal torture. They warn of a reality they hold to be true, the same way one might cry “fire” in a burning building, not to terrorize, but because silence would be the real cruelty.