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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

In an ex post on April the 14th, Tucker Carlson declared this, quote,

The people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.

Islam reveres him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes he performed

miracles and states that he will return to earth to defeat the Antichrist, end quote.

Well, this is a claim often made by Muslim apologist, after all, Jesus features prominently

in the Quran. However, that Jesus described in the Quran and affirmed by Muslims is not the same Jesus who

is proclaimed in the Gospels.

According to Islam, Jesus was a miracle working prophet, who was the son of a virgin and

whose second coming will usher in the apocalypse.

Some Muslims further claim that Jesus was a Muslim.

Now, of course, Islam came along some 600 years after Jesus did,

but Muslims believe that Jesus followed the true, uncorrupted faith of Abraham, whom they herald as a patriarch of Islam.

For example, Jesus prayed with his head to the ground, like Muslims do, they claim, and called God by the Semitic

word for God. They also pointed to the fact that Jesus did not eat pork, was circumcised,

washed before prayer, and kept fasts. In all of this, according to Muslims, he submitted his will

to God, which is the meaning of what it is to be a Muslim. Now, of course, the examples that

supposedly show Jesus as a Muslim. Now, of course, the examples that supposedly show Jesus as a

Muslim are a combination of biblical misunderstanding and selective reading. For example, Jesus also

spoke of praying while standing up, as well as on his knees. When Jesus cried out to God using

some variation of L, Eli, or Eloy, he was using a common word for God from that time and place.

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