This article
has been taken from the web site of Br. Shabir Ally, Islam Answers Back, with
some editing. It contains the following seven arguments
which prove that the Bible
denies the divinity of Jesus:
1) None of the Bible’s Writers Believed That Jesus is God:
Christians and Muslims both believe in Jesus,
love him, and honor him. They are, however, divided over the question of
his divinity.
Fortunately, this difference can be resolved if
we refer the question to both the Bible and the Quran, because, both the Bible
and the Quran teach that Jesus is not God.
It is clear enough to everyone that the Quran
denies the divinity of Jesus, so we do not need to spend much time explaining
that.
On the other hand, many people misunderstand the
Bible; they feel that the belief in Jesus as God is so widespread that it must
have come from the Bible. This article shows quite conclusively that the
Bible does not teach that.
The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is not
God. In the Bible God is always someone else other than Jesus.
Some will say that something Jesus said or
something he did while on the earth proves that he is God. We will show
that the disciples never came to the conclusion that Jesus is God. And
those are people who lived and walked with Jesus and thus knew first hand what
he said and did. Furthermore, we are told in the Acts of the Apostles in
the Bible that the disciples were being guided by the Holy Spirit. If
Jesus is God, surely they should know it. But they did not. They
kept worshipping the one true God who was worshipped by Abraham, Moses, and
Jesus (see Acts 3:13).
All of the writers of the Bible believed that God
was not Jesus. The idea that Jesus is God did not become part of Christian
belief until after the Bible was written, and took many centuries to become part
of the faith of Christians.
Matthew, Mark, and Luke, authors of the first
three Gospels, believed that Jesus was not God (see Mark 10:18 and Matthew
19:17). They believed that he was the son of God in the sense of a
righteous person. Many others too, are similarly called sons of God (see
Matthew 23:1-9).
Paul, believed to be the author of some thirteen
or fourteen letters in the Bible, also believed that Jesus is not God. For
Paul, God first created Jesus, then used Jesus as the agent by which to create
the rest of creation (see Colossians 1:15 and 1 Corinthians 8:6). Similar
ideas are found in the letter to the Hebrews, and also in the Gospel and Letters
of John composed some seventy years after Jesus. In all of these writings,
however, Jesus is still a creature of God and is therefore forever subservient
to God (see 1 Corinthians 15:28).
Now, because Paul, John, and the author of
Hebrews believed that Jesus was God’s first creature, some of what they wrote
clearly show that Jesus was a pre-existent powerful being. This is often
misunderstood to mean that he must have been God. But to say that Jesus
was God is to go against what these very authors wrote. Although these
authors had this later belief that Jesus is greater than all creatures, they
also believed that he was still lesser than God. In fact, John quotes
Jesus as saying: “...the Father is greater than I.” (John 14:28).
And Paul declares that the head of every woman is her husband, the head of every
man is Christ, and the head of Christ is God (see 1 Corinthians 11:3).
Therefore, to find something in these writings
and claim that these teach that Jesus is God is to misuse and misquote what
those authors are saying. What they wrote must be understood in the
context of their belief that Jesus is a creature of God as they have already
clearly said.
So we see then, that some of the later writers
had a higher view of Jesus, but none of the writers of the Bible believed that
Jesus is God. The Bible clearly teaches that there is only one true God,
the one whom Jesus worshipped (see John 17: 3).
In the rest of this article we will explore the
Bible in more depth, and deal with the passages which are most often misquoted
as proofs of Jesus’ divinity. We will show, with God’s help, that
these do not mean what they are so often used to prove.
2) Evidence From the Acts of the Apostles:
Jesus performed many miraculous wonders, and he
without doubt said a lot of wonderful things about himself. Some people use what
he said and did as a proof that he was God. But his original disciples who lived
and walked with him, and were eyewitnesses to what he said and did, never
reached this conclusion.
The Acts of the Apostles in the Bible details the
activity of the disciples over a period of thirty years after Jesus was lifted
up to heaven. Throughout this period they never refer to Jesus as God.
They
continually and consistently use the title God to refer to someone else other than
Jesus.
Peter stood up with the eleven disciples and
addressed the crowd saying: “Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of
Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs,
which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.” (Acts 2:22).
It was God, therefore, who did the miracles
through Jesus to convince people that Jesus was backed by God. Peter did not see
the miracles as proof that Jesus is God.
In fact, the way Peter refers to God and to Jesus
makes it clear that Jesus is not God. For he always turns the title God away
from Jesus. Take the following references for example:
“God has raised this Jesus...” (Acts 2:32)
“God has made this Jesus, whom you
crucified, both Lord and Christ.”
(Acts 2:36)
In both passages, the title God is turned away
from Jesus. So why he did this, if Jesus was God?
For Peter, Jesus was a servant of God. Peter said:
“God
raised up his servant...” (Acts 3:26). The title servant refers to Jesus.
This is clear from a previous passage where Peter
declared: “The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the
God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.” (Acts 3:13).
Peter must have known that Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob never spoke of a Triune God. They always spoke of God as the only
God. Here, as in Matthew 12:18, Jesus is the servant of God.
Matthew tells us that Jesus was the same servant of God spoken of in Isaiah
42:1. So, according to Matthew and Peter, Jesus is not God, but God’s
servant. The Old Testament repeatedly says
that God is alone (e.g. Isaiah 45:5).
All of the disciples of Jesus held this view.
In
Acts 4:24 we are told that the believers prayed to God saying: “...they
raised their voices together in prayer to God. ‘Sovereign Lord,’ they said, ‘you
made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.’” It is clear that the one they
were praying to was not Jesus, because, two verses later, they referred to Jesus
as “...your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.” (Acts 4:27).
If Jesus was God, his disciples should have said
this clearly. Instead, they kept preaching that Jesus was God’s Christ.
We
are told in Acts: “Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to
house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is
the Christ.” (Acts 5:42).
The Greek word “Christ” is a
human title. It means “Anointed.” If Jesus was God, why would the
disciples continually refer to him with human titles like servant and Christ of
God, and consistently use the title God for the one who raised Jesus? Did
they fear men? No! They boldly preached the truth fearing neither
imprisonment nor death. When they faced opposition from the authorities,
Peter declared: “We must obey God rather than men!
The God of
our fathers raised Jesus...” (Acts 5:29-30).
Were they lacking the Holy Spirit? No! They were
supported by the Holy Spirit (see Acts 2:3, 4:8, and 5:32). They were simply
teaching what they had learnt from Jesus — that Jesus was not God but, rather,
God’s servant and Christ.
The Quran confirms that Jesus was the Messiah
(Christ),
and that he was God’s servant (see the Holy Quran 3:45 and 19:30).
3) Jesus is Not All-Powerful, and Not All-Knowing:
Christians and Muslims agree that God is
all-powerful and all-knowing. The Gospels show that Jesus was not
all-powerful, and not all-knowing, since he had some limitations.
Mark tells us in his gospel that Jesus was unable
to do any powerful work in his hometown except few things: “He could not do
any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.”
(Mark 6:5). Mark also tells us that when Jesus tried to heal a certain
blind man, the man was not healed after the first attempt, and Jesus had to try
a second time (see Mark 8:22-26).
Therefore, although we hold a great love and
respect for Jesus, we need to understand that he is not the all-powerful God.
Mark’s Gospel also reveals that Jesus had
limitations in his knowledge. In Mark 13:32, Jesus declared that he
himself does not know when the last day will occur, but the Father alone knows
that (see also Matthew 24:36).
Therefore, Jesus could not have been the
all-knowing God. Some will say that Jesus knew when the last day will
occur, but he chose not to tell. But that complicates matters
further. Jesus could have said that he knows but he does not wish to
tell. Instead, he said that he does not know. We must believe
him. Jesus does not lie at all.
The Gospel of Luke also reveals that Jesus had
limited knowledge. Luke says that Jesus increased in wisdom (Luke
2:52). In Hebrews too (Hebrews 5:8) we read that Jesus learned
obedience. But God’s knowledge and wisdom is always perfect, and God
does not learn new things. He knows everything always. So, if Jesus
learned something new, that proves that he did not know everything before that,
and thus he was not God.
Another example for the limited knowledge of
Jesus is the fig tree episode in the Gospels. Mark tells us as follows: “The
next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the
distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When
he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for
figs.” (Mark 11:12-13).
It is clear from these verses that the knowledge
of Jesus was limited on two counts. First, he did not know that the tree
had no fruit until he came to it. Second, he did not know that it was not
the right season to expect figs on trees.
Can he become God later? No! Because there
is only one God, and He is God from everlasting to everlasting (see Psalms
90:2).
Someone may say that Jesus was God but he took
the form of a servant and therefore became limited. Well, that would mean
that God changed. But God does not change. God said so according to
Malachi 3:6.
Jesus never was God, and never will be. In
the Bible, God declares: “Before me no god was formed, nor will there be
one after me.” (Isaiah 43:10).
The Bible clearly shows that Jesus was not
all-powerful and all-knowing as the true God should be.
4) The Greatest Commandment in the Bible and the Quran:
Some will say that this whole discussion over the
divinity of Jesus is unnecessary. They say, the important thing is to
accept Jesus as your personal savior. On the contrary, the Bible’s
writers stressed that, in order to be saved, it is necessary to understand who
exactly is God. Failure to understand this would be to violate the first
and greatest of all the commandments in the Bible. This commandment was
emphasized by Jesus, on whom be peace, when a teacher of the Law of Moses 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.’” (Mark 12:28-30).
Notice that Jesus was quoting the first
commandment from the book of Deuteronomy 6:4-5. Jesus confirmed not only
that this commandment is still valid, but also that it is the most important of
all the commandments. If Jesus thought that he himself is God, why did not
he say so? Instead, he stressed that God is one. The man
who questioned Jesus understood this, and what the man says next makes it clear
that God is not Jesus, for he said to Jesus: “‘Well said, teacher,’ the
man replied. ‘You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other
but him.’” (Mark 12:32).
Now if Jesus was God, he would have told the man
so. Instead, he let the man refer to God as someone other than Jesus, and he even
saw that the man had spoken wisely: “When Jesus saw that he had answered
wisely, he said to him, ‘You are not far from the kingdom of God.’” (Mark 12:34). If
Jesus knew that God is a trinity, why did not he say so? Why did not he
say that God is one in three, or three in one? Instead, he declared that
God is one. True imitators of Jesus will imitate him also in this
declaration of God’s oneness. They will not add the word three where
Jesus never said it.
Does salvation depend on this commandment?
Yes, says the Bible! Jesus made this clear when another man approached
Jesus to learn from him (see Mark 10:17-29). The man fell on his knees and
said to Jesus: “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Jesus replied: “Why do you call me good? No one is
good — except God alone.” (Mark 10:17-18).
By so saying, Jesus made a clear distinction
between himself and God. Then he proceeded with the answer to the man’s
question about how to get salvation. Jesus told him: “If you want to
enter life, obey the commandments.” (Matthew 19:17, also see Mark 10:19).
Remember that the most important of all the
commandments, according to Jesus, is to know God as the only God. Jesus
further emphasized this in the Gospel According to John. In John 17:1,
Jesus lifted his eyes to heaven and prayed, addressing God as Father. Then
in verse three, he said to God as follows: “Now this is eternal life: that
they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”
(John 17:3).
This proves beyond doubt that if people want to
get eternal life they must know that the One, whom Jesus was praying to, is the
only true God, and they must know that Jesus was sent by the true God.
Some say that the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is
God. But Jesus said that the Father alone is the only true God. True
followers of Jesus will follow him in this too. Jesus had said that his
true followers are those who hold to his teachings. He said: “If you
hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.” (John 8:31). His
teaching is that people must continue to keep the commandments, especially the
first commandment which emphasizes that God is alone, and that God should be
loved with all our hearts and all our strengths.
We love Jesus, but we
must not love him as God. Today many love Jesus more than they love
God. This is because they see God as a vengeful person who wanted to exact
a penalty from them, and they see Jesus as the savior who rescued them from the
wrath of God. Yet God is our only savior. According to Isaiah 43:11,
God said: “I, even I, am the
LORD, and apart from me there is no savior.”
Also God said according to Isaiah 45:21-22: “Was it
not I, the LORD? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a
Savior; there is none but me. Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the
earth; for I am God, and there is no other.”
The Quran confirms the first commandment and
addresses it to all humankind (see the Holy Quran 2:163). And God declares
that true believers love Him more than anyone else or anything else (Quran
2:165).
5) Paul Believed That Jesus is not God:
Many people use Paul’s writings as proof that
Jesus is God. But this is not fair to Paul, because Paul clearly believed
that Jesus is not God. In his first letter to Timothy, Paul wrote: “I
charge you, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, to keep
these instructions...” (1 Timothy 5:21).
It is clear from this that the title God applies
not to Christ Jesus, but to someone else. In the following chapter, he
again differentiates between God and Jesus when he says: “In the sight of
God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying
before Pontius Pilate made the good confession...” (1 Timothy 6:13).
Paul then went on to speak of the second
appearance of Jesus: “the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God
will bring about in his own time.” (1 Timothy 6:14-15).
Again, the title God is deliberately turned away
from Jesus. Incidentally, many people think that when Jesus is called “Lord”
in the Bible that this means “God.” But in the Bible this title means
master or teacher, and it can be used for addressing humans (see 1 Peter 3:6).
What is more important, however, is to notice
what Paul said about God in the following passage, which clearly shows that
Jesus is not God: “God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and
Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom
no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever.” (1 Timothy 6:15-16).
Paul said that God alone is immortal.
Immortal means he does not die. Check any dictionary. Now, anyone
who believes that Jesus died cannot believe that Jesus is God. Such a
belief would contradict what Paul said here. Furthermore, to say that God
died is a blasphemy against God. Who would run the world if God
died? Paul believed that God does not die.
Paul also said in that
passage that God dwells in unapproachable light — that no one has seen God or
can see him. Paul knew that many thousands of people had seen Jesus.
Yet Paul said that no one has seen God, because Paul was sure that Jesus is not
God. This is why Paul went on teaching that Jesus was not God, but that he
was the Christ (see Acts 9:22 and 18:5).
When he was in Athens, Paul spoke of God as “The
God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and
does not live in temples built by hands.” (Acts 17:24). Then he identified Jesus as
“the man he (i.e. God) has appointed.” (Acts 17:31).
Clearly, for Paul, Jesus
was not God, and he would be shocked to see his writings used for proving the
opposite of what he believed. Paul even testified in court saying: “I
admit that I worship the God of our fathers...” (Acts 24:14).
He also said that Jesus is the servant of that
God, for we read in Acts: “The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of
our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.” (Acts 3:13).
For Paul, the Father alone is God. Paul
said that there is “one God and Father of all...” (Ephesians 4:6).
Paul said again: “...for us there is but one God, the Father . . . and
there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ...” (1 Corinthians 8:6).
Paul’s letter to the Philippians (Philippians
2:6-11) is often quoted as a proof that Jesus is God. But the very passage
shows that Jesus is not God. This passage has to agree with Isaiah
45:22-24 where God said that every knee should bow to God, and every
tongue should confess that righteousness and strength are in God alone.
Paul was aware of this passage, for he quoted it in Romans 14:11. Knowing
this, Paul declared: “I kneel before the Father.” (Ephesians 3:14).
The letter to the Hebrews (Hebrews 1:6) says that
the angels of God should worship the Son. But this passage depends on
Deuteronomy 32:43, in the Septuagint version of the Old Testament. This
phrase cannot be found in the Old Testament used by Christians today, and the
Septuagint version is no longer considered valid by Christians. However,
even the Septuagint version, does not say worship the Son. It says let the
Angels of God worship God. The Bible insists that God alone is
to be worshipped: “When the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites, he
commanded them: ‘Do not worship any other gods or bow down to them, serve them
or sacrifice to them. But the LORD, who brought you up out of Egypt with
mighty power and outstretched arm, is the one you must worship. To him you
shall bow down and to him offer sacrifices. You must always be careful to
keep the decrees and ordinances, the laws and commands he wrote for you.
Do not worship other gods. Do not forget the covenant I have made with
you, and do not worship other gods. Rather, worship the LORD your God; it
is he who will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.’” (2 Kings
17:35-39).
Jesus, on whom be peace, believed in this, for he
also stressed it in Luke 4:8. And Jesus too fell on his face and
worshipped God (see Matthew 26:39). Paul knew that Jesus worshipped God
(see Hebrews 5:7). Paul taught that Jesus will remain forever subservient
to God (see 1 Corinthians 15:28).
6) Evidence from the Gospel of John:
The Gospel of John, the fourth Gospel, was
completed to its present form some seventy years after Jesus was raised up to
heaven. This Gospel in its final form says one more thing about Jesus that
was unknown from the previous three Gospels — that Jesus was the Word of
God. John means that Jesus was God’s agent through whom God created
everything else. This is often misunderstood to mean that Jesus was God
Himself. But John was saying, as Paul had already said, that Jesus was God’s
first creature. In the Book of Revelation in the Bible, we find that Jesus
is: “the beginning of God’s creation” (Revelation 3:14, also see 1
Corinthians 8:6 and Colossians 1:15).
Anyone who says that the Word of God is a person
distinct from God must also admit that the Word was created, for the Word speaks
in the Bible saying: “The LORD brought me forth as the first of his
works...” (Proverbs 8:22).
This Gospel, nevertheless, clearly teaches that
Jesus is not God. If it did not continue this teaching, then it would
contradict the other three Gospels and also the letters of Paul from which it is
clearly established that Jesus is not God. We find here that Jesus was not
co-equal with the Father, for Jesus said: “...the Father is greater than I.”
(John 14:28).
People forget this and they say that Jesus is
equal to the Father. Whom should we believe — Jesus or the people?
Muslims and Christians agree that God is self-existent. This means that He
does not derive his existence from anyone. Yet John tells us that Jesus’
existence is caused by the Father. Jesus said in this Gospel: “...I live
because of the Father...” (John 6:57).
John tells us that Jesus cannot do anything by
his own when he quotes Jesus as saying: “By myself I can do nothing...” (John 5:30). This agrees with what we learn about
Jesus from other Gospels. In Mark, for example, we learn that Jesus
performed miracles by a power which was not within his control. This is
especially clear from an episode in which a woman is healed of her incurable
bleeding. The woman came up behind him and touched his cloak, and she was
immediately healed. But Jesus had no idea who touched him. Mark
describes Jesus’ actions thus: “At once Jesus realized that power had gone
out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, ‘Who touched my
clothes?’” (Mark 5:30). His disciples could not provide a satisfactory
answer, so Mark tells us: “Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.”
(Mark 5:32). This shows that the power that healed the woman was not
within Jesus’ control. He knew that the power had gone out of him, but
he did not know where it went. Some other intelligent being had to guide
that power to the woman who needed to be healed. God was that intelligent
being.
It is no wonder, then, that in Acts of the
Apostles we read that it was God who did the miracles through Jesus (Acts
2:22).
God did extraordinary miracles through others too, but that does
not make the others God (see Acts 19:11). Why, then, is Jesus taken for
God? Even when Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, he had to
ask God to do it. Lazarus’ sister, Martha, knew this, for she said to
Jesus: “I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”
(John 11:22).
Martha knew that Jesus was not God, and John who
reported this with approval knew it also. Jesus had a God, for when he was
about to ascend to heaven, he said: “I am returning to my Father and your
Father, to my God and your God.” (John 20:17).
John was sure that no one had seen God, although
he knew that many people had seen Jesus (see John 1:18 and 1 John 4:12).
In fact Jesus himself told the crowds, that they have never seen the Father, nor
have they heard the Father’s voice (John 5:37). Notice that if Jesus was
the Father, his statement here would be false. Who is the only God in John’s
Gospel? The Father alone.
Jesus testified this when he declared that the
God of the Jews is the Father (John 8:54). Jesus too
confirmed that the Father alone is the only true God (see John 17:1-3).
And Jesus said to his enemies: “...you are determined to kill me, a man who
has told you the truth that I heard from God.” (John 8:40). According
to John, therefore, Jesus was not God, and nothing John wrote should be taken as
proof that he was God — unless one wishes to disagree with John.
7) God and Jesus Are Two Separate Beings:
Many people use certain verses of the Bible as
proof that Jesus is God. However, all of these verses, when understood in
context, prove the opposite!
For example, in Matthew 9:2, Jesus said to a
certain man, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.” Because
of this, some say that Jesus must be God since only God can forgive sins.
However, if you are willing to read just a few verses further, you will find
that the people “...praised God, who had given such authority to men.”
(Matthew 9:8). This shows that the people knew, and Matthew agrees, that
Jesus is not the only man to receive such authority from God.
Jesus himself emphasized that he does not speak
on his own authority (John 14:10) and he does nothing on his own authority, but
he speaks only what the Father has taught him (John 8:28). What Jesus did
here was as follows. Jesus announced to the man the knowledge Jesus
received from God that God had forgiven the man.
Notice that Jesus did not say, “I forgive your
sins,” but rather, “your sins are forgiven,” implying, as this would to
his Jewish listeners, that God had forgiven the man. Jesus, then, did not
have the power to forgive sins, and in that very episode he called himself “the
Son of Man” (Matthew 9:6).
John 10:30 is often used as proof that Jesus is
God because Jesus said, “I and the father are one.” But, if you read
the next six verses, you will find Jesus explaining that his enemies were wrong
to think that he was claiming to be God. What Jesus obviously means here
is that he is one with the Father in purpose. Jesus also prayed that his
disciples should be one just as Jesus and the Father are one. Obviously,
he was not praying that all his disciples should somehow merge into one
individual (see John 17:11 and 22). And when Luke reports that the
disciples were all one, Luke does not mean that they became one single human
being, but that they shared a common purpose although they were separate beings
(see Acts 4:32). In terms of essence, Jesus and the Father are two, for
Jesus said they are two witnesses (John 8:14-18). They have to be two,
since one is greater than the other (see John 14:28). When Jesus prayed to
be saved from the cross, he said: “Father, if you are willing, take this
cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” (Luke 22:42).
This shows that they had two separate wills,
although Jesus submitted his will to the will of the Father. Two wills
mean two separate individuals.
Furthermore, Jesus is reported to have said: “My
God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). If one of
them forsook the other, then they must be two separate entities.
Again, Jesus is reported to have said: “Father,
into your hands I commit my spirit.” (Luke 23:46). If the spirit of
one can be placed into the hands of another, they must be two separate beings.
In all of these instances, Jesus is clearly
subordinate to the Father. When Jesus knelt down and prayed he obviously
was not praying to himself (see Luke 22:41). He was praying to his God.
Throughout the New Testament, the Father alone is
called God. In fact, the titles “Father” and “God” are used to
designate one individual, not three, and never Jesus. This is also clear
from the fact that Matthew substituted the title “Father” in the place of
the title “God” in at least two places in his Gospel (compare Matthew 10:29
with Luke 12:6, and Matthew 12:50 with Mark 3:35). If Matthew is right in
doing so, then the Father alone is God.
Was Jesus the Father? No! Because Jesus
said: “And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one
Father,
and he is in heaven.” (Matthew 23:9). So Jesus is not the Father,
since Jesus was standing on the
earth when he said this.
The Quran seeks to bring people back to the true
faith that was taught by Jesus, and by his true disciples who continued in his
teaching. That teaching emphasized a continued commitment to the first
commandment that God is alone. In the Quran, God directs Muslims to call readers of the Bible back to that true faith.
God
have said in the Quran:
Say:
“O people of the Book (Christians and Jews)! Come to a word that is just
between us and you: that we
shall worship none but God, and that we shall associate no partners with Him, and
that none of us shall take others as lords beside God.” 
(Quran, 3:64)
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