WAS JESUS (PBUH) REALLY CRUCIFIED?

WAS JESUS (PBUH) REALLY CRUCIFIED?

Dear Christian Brothers & Sisters, According to the Bible, Jesus (PBUH) was never crucified. We Muslims accept the Holy Quran as the final Revelation and authority on the crucifixion.

Dear Christian Brothers & Sisters, Are you really believing that Jesus (PBUH) was crucified? If you are true Christian, prove that Jesus (PBUH) was crucified with using your Bible.

On the subject of the alleged crucifixion the Holy Quran states in Surah 4: 157-158 an-Nisa‟: “AND [FOR] THEIR SAYING, “INDEED, WE HAVE KILLED THE MESSIAH, JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, THE MESSENGER OF GOD.” AND THEY DID NOT KILL HIM, NOR DID THEY CRUCIFY HIM; BUT [ANOTHER] WAS MADE TO RESEMBLE HIM TO THEM. AND INDEED, THOSE WHO DIFFER OVER IT ARE IN DOUBT ABOUT IT. THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF IT EXCEPT THE FOLLOWING OF ASSUMPTION. AND THEY DID NOT KILL HIM, FOR CERTAIN.” “RATHER, GOD RAISED HIM TO HIMSELF. AND EVER IS GOD EXALTED IN MIGHT AND WISE”.

Allah (SWT) says in Holy Quran, Surah 3:55-56 Ali-„Imran: “[MENTION] WHEN GOD SAID, “O JESUS, INDEED I WILL TAKE YOU AND RAISE YOU TO MYSELF AND PURIFY [I.E., FREE] YOU FROM THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE AND MAKE THOSE WHO FOLLOW YOU [IN SUBMISSION TO GOD ALONE] SUPERIOR TO THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE UNTIL THE DAY OF RESURRECTION. THEN TO ME IS YOUR RETURN, AND I WILL JUDGE BETWEEN YOU CONCERNING THAT IN WHICH YOU USED TO DIFFER”. AND AS FOR THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED, I WILL PUNISH THEM WITH A SEVERE PUNISHMENT IN THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER, AND THEY WILL HAVE NO HELPERS.”

Let us scrutinize from the Bible about the crucifixion:

(1) the Gospels record that when Jesus (PBUH) was taken by the Roman soldiers, “ALL THE DISCIPLES LEFT HIM AND FLED”.

Question: If “all the disciples had fled” how is it that these very same disciples who had fled ran away and left Jesus(PBUH) in the lurch and were not eyewitnesses could still record what happened and claim that Jesus (PBUH) "died"‟ on the cross?

Their claims have to be rejected, as they are baseless.

(2) THE PHARISEES HAD ASKED FOR A SIGN FROM JESUS (PBUH) PRIOR TO THE CRUCIFIXION:

Matt 12:38 THEN CERTAIN OF THE SCRIBES AND OF THE PHARISEES ANSWERED, SAYING, MASTER, WE WOULD SEE A SIGN FROM THEE.

Matt 12:39 BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION SEEKETH AFTER A SIGN; AND THERE SHALL NO SIGN BE GIVEN TO IT, BUT THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAS: Matt 12:40 FOR AS JONAS WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE WHALE‟S BELLY; SO SHALL THE SON OF MAN BE THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH.

The above is prior to his alleged crucifixion. JESUS (PBUH) STATES CATEGORICALLY THAT THE ONLY SIGN HE IS GIVING IS THAT OF JONAH. He did not refer to any of his previous miracles ‘BUT THE SIGN OF JONAH’. All Sunday school children know the story of Jonah and the fish: Jonah was thrown into the sea, a fish swallowed him and he was thrown out ALIVE from the belly of the fish after 3 days and 3 nights.

(1) WAS JESUS (PBUH) ALIVE OR DEAD? JESUS HAD SAID: “AS JONAH WAS”? JONAH WAS ALIVE! SO JESUS MUST HAVE BEEN ALIVE! IF THE CHURCH SAYS HE WAS DEAD THEN THE FIRST SIGN WAS NOT FULFILLED!

(2) If the Church says that it was the time feature in the sign, meaning that it was 3 days and 3 nights: then here again the sign is not fulfilled. According to the Bible, Jesus (PBUH) was put on the cross on Friday and before the sun rose on Sunday he was out of the Sepulture.

If we count Friday as the 1st day, and Saturday as the 2nd day; Friday night as 1st night, and Saturday night as the 2nd night, then here again it is only 2 days and 2 nights. So the sign given by Jesus (PBUH) according to the Bible is unfulfilled twice over. Remember this is the ONLY SIGN that Jesus (PBUH) gave according to the Bible, and if this claim is not fulfilled then the belief of the Doctrine of the Crucifixion of forgiveness of sin is bogus! Believe us; try as hard as they want to, the „Paulines’ (Why do we say Paulines? Because Paul made up this doctrine) with all their jugglery in trying to prove otherwise can never do it. THIS PROVES THIS BELIEF IS REALLY FICTION!

Let us read further:
JOHN 20: 17: JESUS SAITH UNTO HER, TOUCH ME NOT; FOR I AM NOT YET ASCENDED TO MY FATHER: BUT GO TO MY BRETHREN, AND SAY UNTO THEM, I ASCEND UNTO MY FATHER, AND YOUR FATHER; AND TO MY GOD, AND YOUR GOD.

LUKE 24:35: WHY SEEK YE THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD? LUKE 24:36: AND AS THEY THUS SPAKE, JESUS HIMSELF STOOD IN THE MIDST OF THEM, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, PEACE BE UNTO YOU. (SHALOM) LUKE 24: 37: BUT THEY WERE TERRIFIED AND AFFRIGHTED163, AND SUPPOSED THAT THEY HAD SEEN A SPIRIT.

LUKE 24: 38 - AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, WHY ARE YE TROUBLED? AND WHY DO THOUGHTS ARISE IN YOUR HEARTS?

LUKE 24: 39: BEHOLD MY HANDS AND MY FEET, THAT IT IS I MYSELF: HANDLE ME, AND SEE; FOR A SPIRIT HATH NOT FLESH AND BONES, AS YE SEE ME HAVE.

LUKE 24: 40: AND WHEN HE HAD THUS SPOKEN, HE SHEWED THEM HIS HANDS AND HIS FEET. LUKE 24: 41 - AND WHILE THEY YET BELIEVED NOT FOR JOY, AND WONDERED, HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE HERE ANY MEAT? LUKE 24: 42: AND THEY GAVE HIM A PIECE OF A BROILED FISH, AND OF AN HONEYCOMB.

LUKE 24: 43 AND HE TOOK IT, AND DID EAT BEFORE THEM. LUKE 24:23 AND WHEN THEY FOUND NOT HIS BODY, THEY CAME, SAYING, THAT THEY HAD ALSO SEEN A VISION OF ANGELS, WHICH SAID THAT HE WAS ALIVE.

THESE VERSES FROM THE BIBLE PROVE THAT JESUS WAS ALIVE!

He never died on the cross, because ONLY LIVING PEOPLE NEED AND EAT FOOD and not a spiritualized person. A resurrected person is as unto angels as Jesus(PBUH) said in LUKE 20:36 - „NEITHER CAN THEY DIE ANY MORE: FOR THEY ARE EQUAL UNTO THE ANGELS; AND ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD, BEING THE CHILDREN OF THE RESURRECTION‟.

THE WORD ALIVE COMES UP ALL THE TIME. SO THIS DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH IS DEFINITELY FALSE!

There is another dimension to this CRUCIFIXION story. If, as the Church propounds the crucifixion was to atone for the sins through the blood of Jesus, then where does the Pope fit into the forgiveness theory?

ACCORDING TO THE CHURCH THE POPE SAVES FROM PERDITION (IN CHRISTIAN BELIEF A STATE OF ETERNAL DAMNATION INTO WHICH A SINFUL PERSON WHO HAS NOT REPENTED PASSES AFTER DEATH). DOES IT MEAN THAT THE CRUCIFIXION WAS INCOMPLETE IN ATONING FOR THE SINS?

These are man-made doctrines as Jesus(PBUH) predicted in: MATT 15:9 - BUT IN VAIN THEY DO WORSHIP ME, TEACHING FOR DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN. & MARK 7:7- HOWBEIT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING FOR DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.