Who is Jesus?

The word in 19:19 is "zakiiya," which means "pure" or "purified." It is also used to describe the youth in 18:74, where there is clearly no implication of sinlessness. This argument is invalid.

O my dear brother gospelmap, thanks for your replies. Your replies indeed strengthen my hypothesis that most of my Christian brothers don't know about the historicity of their own Bible. This is not to discourage you as what you believe, but to make you aware of as what you quote so generously from all over the Bible, especially the NT. Nevertheless, here is my humble response to your quotes from the Bible.

dear freind ahamad ,you maybe right about many of my christian brothers same as with many of my muslim friends.hence we agree on it.I have to quote generously from the bible since thats the reliable ,true record  or dairy written by the first hand eye witnesses of the first century as pointed in my earlier response.

1. You quoted (John 10:31-33), but point to be noted here is that its not what Jesus said, but what others understood of him.In either case, this parable "Father and I are one." is commonly understood that "Father and my message" is one, especially in the context of Prophethood of Jesus. Hence, whatever he says, is from God and not from himself. This is quite frequently found in Ahadith literature of Prophet Mohammad. This is why Sunnah of Prophet Mohammad is so important for us, even then we never ascribe any divinity to Prophet Mohammad.

 You are assuming a lot here my freind.please note the entire purpose of the gospel of John is to insist on Jesus divinty as son of God.

But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and that by believing you may have life in his name (John 20:31)

I and the father are one (John 10:30) .thats the background of the passage.if they understood that way ,then they better understood than us in that context.further Jesus christ could have said "you have not understood me guys.I didnt mean to as God or his son but was merely telling you I and the message is one" but as you read further he clarifies them taking the very old testament verses to proceed from mens  being called as gods to himself  greater than all human being as God's very own son. therefore they became furious in there conversations with Jesus.

Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, 'I am God's Son'? ³⁷Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does. ³⁸But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."(John 10:36-38)

2. John 5:18 has also the same explanation as presented above.

Same is my explanation as above.

3. In  (John 14:9)  , typically people were asking him to show them the God. Is this not a silly question from a Prophet, especially once they new that it was written that no one has seen the God. How can any sane person than ask to show them the God? The best answer to this silly question, again in the context of Prophethood of Jesus, that for all practical purposes, he is the representative of God on earth. So, in that sense this passage can easily be explained that anyone who obeys Jesus, obeys God. In the same token anyone who has seen Jesus, has seen the God. No divinity needed for this simple understanding. Isn't it?

Good try my freind but Not really,again you are assuming a lots of things.Its true we cannot see God but he does reveals himself to us through Jesus  and thats exactly many verses in this book of John tries to explain."And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the : only Son from the Father." John 1:14

⁹Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? ¹⁰Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. ¹¹Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.(John 14:9-11)

4. Your evidence from John 8:56-59 to show any divinity of Jesus is not comprehensively understood. Especially how come all lowered Greek words 'ego eimi', " can be translated as all capital (I AM)? Is their any rules capitalizing Greek words during translation to english words?? I don't know. Secondly, it is also intersting to know that Jesus used to speak Greek language and not the Aramaic. Are you sure of this?? 

Not all but in this verse he did said I AM.that is the reason they got furious.he was claiming preexistence than abraham and using the word I AM.he claimed that pre-exisistence other time too.The language during Jesus time was hebrew their native language ,Aramic and greek which was the commercial language.but the matter is even if Jesus spoke any one of the languages or all he was claiming divinity.

5. Your reference from Rev 1:17-18 can be anything but to show that Jesus has any divinity especially once the statement says "....and I was dead..." Also, probably, you would also like to tell us the author of this book Revelations and his relationship with Jesus to put such words in his mouth?

The writer of this book is the same person- John the apostle.you can read his own introduction within the book itself..he was the disciple who was closest to Jesus christ.he was the last apostle to die and living almost being very aged.Jesus appeared to him after his (Jesusa) death , resurrection,ascension and again reappeared to him when he(John) was persecuted on the patmos island hence that words-behold I was dead . Jesus GIVES UP HIS LIFE IN HIS INCARNATE FORM WHICH HAD ALL THE LIMITATIONS OF HUMANITY. AS GOD, HE CAN NEVER DIE. AS A HUMAN BEING, HE CAN DIE.

6. Similarly your reference to "(Mark 14:61-63)" is seen more off the mark especially once the sentence says ".....see the Son of man.....". On an interesting note, again, who is using this capital "S" for son during the translation from Greek to English? Also, this time the words "Jesus said, "I am"" are not capitalized. Is there any specific reason for such translations?

The term "son of man "was taken from Daniel 7:13-14 by Jesus to tell about himself as the same divine person mentioned there.the jewish community of his time understood that term better.hence jesus used that term often to claim divinty.In some place Jesus used that word I AM speciafically to claim divinty and other time he was using in normal terms.

Now when you quote "1.Phil. 2:5-8" it is here when my objection to what is commonly called as "Pauline Christianity" begins. Nevertheless, is there any physical association of St. Paul with Physical Jesus? Only my Christian brothers would tell as how?

There are many ways paul is considered to be reliable.as follows:

1.He was with the disciples of his time and learnt all from them.hence the disciples were his source of information.the disciple of Jesus christ-peter affirms the apostleship of paul in his letter

Just as our dear brother paul also wrote  to you with the wisdom that God gave him. he writes the same way �.his letters contain some hard things�which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do with the other scriptures, to their own destruction.(2pet3:15-16)

2.Jesus appeared to Paul who was called saul. he was persecuting the chruch and christians before his conversion, was a jewish man, strict follower of the God of israel.what made him to follow christ? -the appearance of Jesus and appointing him as his disciple.(read the full account in Acts 9).hence paul the apostle is just as reliable like the other disciples of christ.if he would have invented anything other than the 12 disciples of christ he would not have been considered by them neither approved.he seems to me more reliable than any person coming 600 years later to talk about christ since paul was in the first century when these were happenings,muhammed was not.

God bless you and open your heart now to know Jesus christ the lord and savior for the forgiveness of your sins and to receive eternal life in heaven.