Question:
How do Jews and Muslims view Jesus and the apostles...NT?
Penny Lane
2011-08-20 21:01:30 UTC
I know Muslims regard Jesus as a prophet. He is even in much of their artwork. So how do they discount his message that he was God? That no man cometh unto the Father but by Him? I guess it must come down to feeling like the NT is just a creation of some sort? If so, what DO they believe about him?

Same for Jews. Do they believe Jesus existed? I know they dont consider him a prophet of any sort. Is there any consensus on their take on the NT??

Im not looking for ANY disrespectful comments here. Just some enlightenment on other religions take on Jesus. Sources are appreciated.
Eleven answers:
2011-08-20 21:30:37 UTC
Hi, Jesus pbuh is a second last prophet in Islam. His status of prophet is completely in accordance with NT. Just like JW's believe that Jesus is not god but son of God, we believe he's a prophet of God. Nothing more nothing less.



No man cometh unto Father by him means that he came for the salvation for Jews of his time. However the last prophet Muhammad pbuh came for the entire humanity. The book revealed to him is unaltered since revelation and his entire lifestyle and lifetime has been recorded. Means if you want to live like a prophet you won't find authentic history about any prophet except Muhammad pbuh.



Jesus worshiped God, ate food, took injuries and took rest. This proves that he wasn't God. Miracles like healing and walking on water were the provisions of God given to him just like Moses pbuh was given magic staff and made a calf. Does it mean that Moses was God? NO. There's only one God and prophet Muhammad pbuh is the last prophet of God. Rest is your choice.
argubright
2016-09-18 13:40:03 UTC
Jews - at a streach feel that jesus was once an natural man who claimed to be the messiah and didnt fullfill the prophecy --- one of the jews to do the identical in the course of historical past... A lot of jews although feel jesus is a whole fabrication... a mirage made of close and center japanese pagan myths via a few shrewd storeymaker or philosopher who noticed some way of seeking to rally the jews in opposition to the oppresive roman pagan regime of the time ... and who realised that during an age with none form of mass communique - no person could quite ever must see the individual... rather then that - jesus is not anything to judaism ... at so much an annoyance ... and a side of a further religion that has not anything to do with judaism
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2016-11-15 03:20:55 UTC
How Do Jews View Jesus
Laffopuritain
2011-08-20 21:26:25 UTC
Muslims believe that the Bible was corrupted by the early church. They are alright with reading the NT, but don't view it as scripture. Sort of like how many Christians view reading the Apocryphal works- read it with a grain of salt, because it could contain some truth, but is by no means authoritative.



They therefor don't believe that Jesus was the son of God. They don't believe he died on the cross (someone who looked like him died in his place while he was taken into heaven) and the Apostles taught the same doctrines Muslims believe today.



They believe that Jesus will return



the B.A. on this Q gives a good rundown.



https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20071128153432AAdbAwX



Jews are divided into many different ideas, but I've never heard of any of them saying Jesus never existed. The NT says that the law of Moses is fulfilled, while many Jews believe it can not be 'fulfilled', because it is not a means to an end, or a type of things to come. As far as I understand, that would be their main problem with the NT.
Funky Bird, the Jewish Pastafarian
2011-08-20 21:16:55 UTC
I don't know Muslim beliefs on this topic, so it would not be appropriate for me to comment on them.



Jesus is simply not part of Judaism.



Presuming he existed at all, he was just a young Jewish man trying to teach a little Judaism 101 to the average guy on the street, failing rather badly, and ending up crucified for his troubles. It has been estimated that around ten thousand Jews were crucified during the span of time during which Jesus was said to have lived; he was neither more nor less important to us than any of the others.
2011-08-20 21:05:41 UTC
Jesus, the Apostles and the entire New Testament writings are not relevant or discussed in Judaism. Period. As for Islam, I have very limited knowledge of what they view, except that Muslims don't believe Jesus was the Messiah, but a prophet.
jurgen
2011-08-20 21:50:00 UTC
There is no explicit statement in the Bible by Jesus saying that he is god or a son of god.

But, there are statements by the demons calling him son of god.

As a Muslim, I do not take word from others except from Jesus.



Furthermore, Jesus own testimony in the NT is to worship God alone.
2011-08-21 09:23:15 UTC
They only see mohamamd in good light no matter what he did. They have even made him a prophet and they worship him.



MUHAMMAD FOUNDED MOHAMMEDANISM (islam).



#1 Mohammad says in the quran 39:12

YUSUFALI: "And I am commanded to be the first of those who bow to Allah in Islam."



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#2 MOHAMMAD FAILED THE TEST OF PROPHET HOOD, if muhammad's allah was true, it would have informed him about the poisoned goat, which later led to his death.

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Ibn Sa'd page 249: Verily a Jewish woman presented poisoned (meat of) a she goat to the apostle of Allah. He took a piece form it, put it into his mouth, chewed it and threw it away. Then he said to the Companions: "Halt! Verily, its leg tells me that it is poisoned." Then he sent for the Jewish woman and asked her; "What induced you to do what you have done?" She replied, "I wanted to know if you are true; in that case Allah will surely inform you, and if you are a liar I shall relieve the people of you."



**PROPHET HOOD FAILED**: The question here is weather allah told muhammad that the goat is poisoned or not? CLEARLY NOT, as he had to put it in his mouth. Quran says "if you are true; in that case Allah will surely inform you" {muhammad would not eat the goat and he would not die} but because allah NEVER informed him, and muhammad was a liar he ate it and he died, just as the verse says "if you are a liar I shall relieve the people of you."



After all this even if Muhammad knew that it was poisoned, and he still put it (goat) in his mouth, he committed suicide.

And if he came to know after chewing it, its nothing special as anybody would know after they chewed it, no need for special powers.



#3 Mohammedans do not have any supporting evidence to prove mohammad was a prophet (other than he being a self proclaimed prophet, with hallucinations). He has not been mentioned in either of the earlier original texts (Torah/Bible).



#4 Even if we agree that muhammad was illiterate, certain questions come up like, who wrote the quran?, if not muhammad then how did he verify what he was narrating to his biographers or his contemporaries, weather it was exactly what he wanted them to write?



#5 Muhammad forced the Arab moon god allah on everyone. I say this because, mohammad's father, A PAGAN, had the name Abdullah meaning servant of allah much before mohammad had his "revelations"



#6 Muhammad was called a liar

Muhammad informed Umar [the second Caliph], and he called the Prophet a liar. Ishaq:567.



#7 Muhammad broke oaths as he wished and advised mohammedans to do the same

If you ever take an oath to do something and later on you find that something else is better, then you should expiate your oath and do what is better." Sahih Bukhari 9:89:260



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#8 Mohammad being a false prophet did not perform any miracle.

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The Qur'an very clearly says of Muhammad that he performed no signs. In Surah 6.37, when Muhammad's adversaries say "Why has no sign been sent down to him from his Lord?", Muhammad is bidden to reply merely that God could send one if he wanted to but had not done so.



In the same Surah we read that Muhammad said, "I have not that for which you are impatient" (Surah 6.57), meaning signs and wonders such as Moses had. He goes on to say that if he had had them, the dispute between him and them would have been decided long ago.



# 9 Muslims PRAY to Mohammad like he said to do:



Tirmidhi relates, through his chain of narrators from 'Uthman ibn Hunayf, that a blind man came to the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) and said, "I've been afflicted in my eyesight, so please pray to Allah for me." The Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: "Go make ablution (wudu), perform two rak'as of prayer, and then say:



"Oh Allah, I ask You and turn to You through my Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet of mercy; O MUHAMMAD (YA MUHAMMAD), I SEEK YOUR INTERCESSION with my Lord for the return of my eyesight [and in another version: "for my need, that it may be fulfilled. O Allah, grant him intercession for me"]."



Do the readers see how Muhammad specifically instructed the blind man to address him directly in his prayer? The blind man wasn’t told to simply pray to Allah asking him to heal him on behalf of Muhammad. He was also directed to address Muhammad directly and personally ask him in the prayer to intercede for him.
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2011-08-20 21:03:10 UTC
They don't believe he is the son of god.
Blue Foots™
2011-08-20 21:03:24 UTC
Jews don't think about Jesus. Therefore, we don't think about the NT.



That's about it.
2011-08-20 21:02:57 UTC
Who's Jesus?



That's about how.


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