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Question: How do you know the Gospel's are preserved?
Answer: Thousands of New Testament manuscripts across centuries, in multiple different languages, are all completely consistent with eachother, besides stuff like spelling errors. All the errors you can find, can be fixed by looking at older and more accurate manuscripts. If a Muslim wants to say the Gospel is corrupted, they have to show manuscript evidence of the "Original" Gospel, where it is written that Ahmed/Muhammad will come. Until this is done, they have no historical evidence that the Gospels have said something else before. Christians could only believe it has been corrupted if they believed the Qur'an, but they don't. Since they don't believe it, you can't use the Qur'an to prove the Gospel is corrupted, unless you proce the Qur'an first.
Question: If Jesus is God, how could God die?
Answer: Jesus' eternal spirit went into a human body, then eventually left that body. God can do all things (Mark 10:27), so doing it would be easy for him.
Question: If Jesus is God, why did he say on the Cross, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?"
Answer: 1) He was quoting Psalm 22:1, probably to show he was fulfilling the chapter. 2) At the Cross, the sin of the world was put upon him (he was made sin), thus the Father had to forsake him at that moment. (Isaiah 59:2 & 2 Corinthians 5:21).
Question: If Jesus is God, why did he pray to God?
Answer: Jesus was and is equal to God the Father, but he humbled himself as a servant of God while he was on Earth. Therefore, since he put himself as a servant at that time, he prayed to the Father, as a servant would.
Question: How can Jesus be 100% God and 100% man?
Answer: Jesus, in spirit, was 100% God, but he was in a human body, and humbling himself as a human, so he was thus 100% man as well.
Question: If Jesus is God, and God is all-knowing, why didn't Jesus know the day or hour (Matthew 24:36)?
Answer: Jesus is 100% God and 100% man. When Jesus said he didn't know, he was speaking of his manhood. Elsewhere in the Gospels, it is said that Jesus knows all things (John 16:30), which is speaking of his Godhood.
Question: If Jesus is God, why did he say the Father was greater than him?
Answer: Jesus was and is equal to God the Father, but he humbled himself as a servant of God while he was on Earth. Therefore, since he put himself as a servant at that time, he said the Father was greater than him, as a servant would. After he rose, he made himself equal to God by saying he has all authority in Heaven and Earth (Matthew 28:18), and said he is the first and last (Revelation 1:17-18), as God did (Isaiah 44:6).
Question: If the trinity is true, how can 1 + 1 + 1 = 1?
Answer: This question is based off a misunderstanding of the trinity. "1 + 1 + 1 = 1" does not describe the trinity in its entirety. Muslims here, are simply combining the manifestations of the spirit with the spirit manifested.
There is one spirit, and three manifestations of the one spirit. We are saying that, 3 manifestations of one singular spirit is one spirit, NOT that three spirits are one spirit. The math equation is this:
(M = Manifestation, S = Spirit)
1m of 1s, + 1m of 1s, + 1m of 1s = 3m's and 1s.
To put it into words: When we say God is 3 and 1 at the same time, we are saying that God is one spirit, and there are 3 separate manifestations of this one spirit. One spirit = One God (God is spirit).
Answer: Thousands of New Testament manuscripts across centuries, in multiple different languages, are all completely consistent with eachother, besides stuff like spelling errors. All the errors you can find, can be fixed by looking at older and more accurate manuscripts. If a Muslim wants to say the Gospel is corrupted, they have to show manuscript evidence of the "Original" Gospel, where it is written that Ahmed/Muhammad will come. Until this is done, they have no historical evidence that the Gospels have said something else before. Christians could only believe it has been corrupted if they believed the Qur'an, but they don't. Since they don't believe it, you can't use the Qur'an to prove the Gospel is corrupted, unless you proce the Qur'an first.
Question: If Jesus is God, how could God die?
Answer: Jesus' eternal spirit went into a human body, then eventually left that body. God can do all things (Mark 10:27), so doing it would be easy for him.
Question: If Jesus is God, why did he say on the Cross, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?"
Answer: 1) He was quoting Psalm 22:1, probably to show he was fulfilling the chapter. 2) At the Cross, the sin of the world was put upon him (he was made sin), thus the Father had to forsake him at that moment. (Isaiah 59:2 & 2 Corinthians 5:21).
Question: If Jesus is God, why did he pray to God?
Answer: Jesus was and is equal to God the Father, but he humbled himself as a servant of God while he was on Earth. Therefore, since he put himself as a servant at that time, he prayed to the Father, as a servant would.
Question: How can Jesus be 100% God and 100% man?
Answer: Jesus, in spirit, was 100% God, but he was in a human body, and humbling himself as a human, so he was thus 100% man as well.
Question: If Jesus is God, and God is all-knowing, why didn't Jesus know the day or hour (Matthew 24:36)?
Answer: Jesus is 100% God and 100% man. When Jesus said he didn't know, he was speaking of his manhood. Elsewhere in the Gospels, it is said that Jesus knows all things (John 16:30), which is speaking of his Godhood.
Question: If Jesus is God, why did he say the Father was greater than him?
Answer: Jesus was and is equal to God the Father, but he humbled himself as a servant of God while he was on Earth. Therefore, since he put himself as a servant at that time, he said the Father was greater than him, as a servant would. After he rose, he made himself equal to God by saying he has all authority in Heaven and Earth (Matthew 28:18), and said he is the first and last (Revelation 1:17-18), as God did (Isaiah 44:6).
Question: If the trinity is true, how can 1 + 1 + 1 = 1?
Answer: This question is based off a misunderstanding of the trinity. "1 + 1 + 1 = 1" does not describe the trinity in its entirety. Muslims here, are simply combining the manifestations of the spirit with the spirit manifested.
There is one spirit, and three manifestations of the one spirit. We are saying that, 3 manifestations of one singular spirit is one spirit, NOT that three spirits are one spirit. The math equation is this:
(M = Manifestation, S = Spirit)
1m of 1s, + 1m of 1s, + 1m of 1s = 3m's and 1s.
To put it into words: When we say God is 3 and 1 at the same time, we are saying that God is one spirit, and there are 3 separate manifestations of this one spirit. One spirit = One God (God is spirit).