Jesus(peace be upon him) is no more than a messenger of the Almighty God.
Oh, and he was never crucified.

Of course Jesus(pbuh) is coming back to correct the people who says he's God or a part of God and tell them he's no more than a messenger of God who brought the same message Adam, Abraham, Moses all preached which is ' Thy Lord God is one ' .

Lagusta:
Veiling
The laws on veiling have been misunderstood due to the high activity of veiling currently within the Islamic state. During Pre-Islamic times the Assyrian law clearly depicted within their written regulation who was allowed to veil. Those women who were family to “seigniors” had to veil as well as those who were previously prostitutes but now married. Laws on veiling were so strict that intolerable consequences were enacted upon these women, some of which included beating or cutting their ears off. While many people are under the impression that all women in Pre-Islamic Arabia took part in the tradition of veiling, prostitutes and slaves were prohibited from taking part in this practice. The veil was not only used to classify women according to their status, but it also labeled them based on their sexual activity and marital status

This is from Wikipedia..... Read it well

Jazakallahu Khayran

ajiboye007:
QUESTION FOR THE MUSLIM


SURA 24:31

And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, their brothers' sons, their sisters' sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed. {24:31}


HERE IS MY QUESTION


what is reason for these ayat ?

who are those that lost after muslim woman for allah to order cover ?

do people in arabia walk nicked in stree and house before this revelation ?

ITS A SERIOUS MATTER

Obviously if you read the verses preceding and the ones that comes after. Almighty God was simply just giving a moral lesson to his people.

The most important truth IS that the foundation of Christianity is built on lies. Lies upon lies.

Amberon11:
have you contacted the 6 million Muslims who convert to Christianity yearly in Africa alone? Christianity is love
You are not being compelled to be a Christian

Who told you people were not compelled to christianity ?

Pls, how of those 6 million people you mentioned, can you tell me any one of them who is a scholar either an imam or sheik amongt them. If you want I can show you links where pastors, catholic priests who have more knowledge of the bible than you can ever have converted to Islam.

Victim

Have you asked yourself why priests/pastors are dumping christianity ? Or why a lot of youths nowadays are turning atheist ?

cloudgoddess:

Sorry that you're upset Doesn't change reality though...

Sorry to burst your bubble. What you wrote up there shows how ignorant you are. You are not the only one, mind you. There millions like you who just a little research on Islam who do a lot of good. What would cost you to just do a little research on Islam and see for yourself what it entails.

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cloudgoddess:
There are a few reasons that come to mind:

1. The brainwashing & indoctrination that Muslims undergo (usually from childhood where the mind is most impressionable) is severely more intense than that of Christians.

Instilled "virtues" of submission/servitude (one Muslim friend of mine expressed that Muslims are called to be "slaves of Allah" ), Ingroup vs. Outgroup mentality (Muslims are taught that they are special & loved by Allah & all other religious groups are wrong and hated by Allah. Many cults share this type of mentality), tying the religion to one's identity (Muslims are taught that everyone is born Muslim/being Muslim is part of their blood, etc. And marrying Muslim is emphasized very strongly, it is explicitly taught that marrying non-Muslim brings dishonor), and rites and rituals infused into daily life (ex. 5x a day prayer, Ramadan, prayer mats and praying towards Mecca, using special Arabic words). All of these things and more strengthen the significance of Islam in a Muslim followers mind, infusing their subconscious at a more thorough level than most Christians are forced to undergo.

2. Islam has a history of dealing violently with "apostates" and "infidels".

There is no such thing as honor killing in Christianity. But in the Muslim world it appears that many find it completely justified to kill (& at best, abandon/disown) their own relatives for leaving the faith. It's even in Shariah law that apostates should be killed. This could probably stand alone as the single biggest reason many Muslims remain in the faith. The amount of fear this instills is a VERY strong subconscious motivator to never question their religion. Fear has been used to control humans for centuries and religion is no different. Islam uses fear as one of its main tools.

3. Muslims tend to be more isolated from other ideas.

It appears that Muslims tend to form and live in solely Muslim communities, seperate from opposing views and lifestyles, whereas Christians are often much more exposed to the secular world. So Christians have more opportunities to run into arguments against their religion, whereas Muslims usually stay very protected from such (this is one side effect of the fear that's instilled in them).

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Nonsense

Did you know ?

Many non-Muslims have come to incorrectly believe that Allah is the ‘God of Muslims’ – A deity somehow different from the God of the other faiths. It should be emphasised that the term “Allah” has no implied meaning at all of an Arabian god, a Moon god or even a Muslim god. Muslims are not claiming any exclusiveness when they say "Allah". However Allah is simply the Arabic Name of the one Almighty God; the same name by which Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians, refer to God. The Allah comes from the term ‘al-ilaah’. Al is the definite article in Arabic, equivalent to ‘the’ in English, while ilaah means ‘a deity or god’. So Allah means The God. This is beautifully articulated in the first pillar of Islam which is to believe that God is One, in Arabic it would be, "La ilaha illallah" meaning "There is no god but God"

july66:
They claim Islam is a religion of peace, they therefore preach peace among men but in reality they have almost thorn the world to pieces. They have no regard for human life including theirs & that's why they go on suicide mission. Remember there is God o. If they convince you that you are going to heaven after taking an innocent soul, sorry because the hottest part of hell awaits you. Stop fighting for God because God is a warrior & He can fight his battles himself.

Ignorance at it's peak. So because a few people are using religion as the reason for violence it means that's what it teaches. I suggest you get your ass up and do some research.

SUPERPACK:
Ecclesiastes 3:1
1 Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses.

jcross19:
Yes we are witnessing the miracle now!!!!!!!. Religion of peace , in fact in islamic dictionary peace mean another thing entirely.

See them, Al-Zalimun.

Mehn, as in, you're literally correct.

Verily, those who give sadaqat(alms), men and women, and lend Allah a goodly loan, it shall be increased manifold( to their credit), and theirs shall be an honourable good reward(i.e paradise). Q 57:18

kilo4sure:

So until you see cross or crucifixion you wouldn't believe it was prophesied especially when such was yet to be invented in the time of Isaiah? Come on now, you should be better than that.
Okay l believe it can be argued that psalm22 can be applied to anyone, but what it describes looks more like crucifixion, would you say that isn't the case simply because cross and crucifixion was not mentioned? Na wa o.

So you don't think something as significant as that in the foundation of christianity wouldn't be talked about extensively ?

MakeWeTalk:
Lets call a spade a spade, islam endorses violence.


Even muslims have started accepting it.
Listen to a moslem say that the problem is the quoran


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Kmp-VHryI

Here are some of the verses that preaches violence

Sura 5:51
O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends.

SURA 4:89
So choose not friends from them till they forsake their homes in the way of Allah; if they turn back (to enmity) then take them and kill them wherever ye find them, and choose no friend nor helper from among them,

SURA 8:59
And let not those who disbelieve(Christians & Jews) suppose that they can outstrip (Allah's Purpose). Lo! they cannot escape.
SURA 8:60
Make ready for them all thou canst of (armed) force and of horses tethered, that thereby ye may dismay the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others beside them whom ye know not. Allah knoweth them.

SURA 9:123
O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers(Christians & Jews) who are near to you

SURA 2:190 Fight in the way of Allah
SURA 2:191 And slay them(Christians & Jews) wherever ye find them

Surah 9:5
When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them.
SURA 9:29
Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day

SURA 9:123
O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto Him).

Ignorance is indeed a disease.

malvisguy212:
the old testament forestshadow God plan of salvation, isaiah prophsied it, the psalmist talk about it, many other prophet made mention of it.

Pls show me the verses that talked specifically on Jesus dying on a cross or where the word crucifixion was mentioned in those books. Thanks

AnonyNymous:

I went to a Christian secondary school, I believe it actually was prophesied in the old testament.
My problem with Christianity is how it continually contradicts itself, not to talk of some of the morals the bible promotes. Islam too, has their own issues, but that's for another day. The person you are arguing with, that Malvis guy, fails to think in terms of logic and common sense but is saying 'just believe'. That's why I refuse to reply to him, because there is no logic in his words. But before you actually bring forth statements, I advise you to do your research first to avoid seeming unintelligent

Nothing like death on cross or word like ' crucifixion' was mentioned.

kilo4sure:

How do you interpret Isaiah 53.

My point still stands, nothing like cross or crucifixion was mentioned in that chapter.

malvisguy212:
oh!! So now it nairaland and not google ? Nonsense liar.

It seems you have a hard time grasping things.

Aside these 3, every prophets and messengers Allah sent to this world , all came deliver the same message.

malvisguy212:
just to provide a single verse, you are recommending google for answer, quran did not record allah miracle but google did, google is now a holy book. Silly answer.

I'm pretty sure you've been on NL for some time to know the OP has been debunked not once, not twice on here. What I wrote up there is very simple. I just asked him to type it on the google search engine and put 'nairaland' at the end. He will surely seek what he's looking for.
You guys keep recycling bullshits that's been already treated eons ago

malvisguy212:
oh, a muslim, so you believe after 600 years, after the event had happen, God sent muhammed to say they crucified him not ? Why will Allah waited that long ? Those who have died before muhammed came, who will be blame for their unbelief ? Allah or satan ? The quran admit, crucifixion happen, but it say, Allah change the face of jesus, to who ?

The bible made it clear, by one man, sin enter the world and through one man the forgiveness of sin was accomplish. Before the coming of muhammed, under the mosaic law, what were the Jews doing on the “Day of Atonement” (blood atonement) since 1513 B.C.E.?

If the jews and muslims are worshiping one God, why will he command the jews to atone for their sin with blood atonement and later say in the quran that He hate it ?

I have one question for you.
You know the entire case of christianity is based on the so called crucifixion of Jesus, and you guys make it so important, why was it never ever mentioned at least once in the old Testament ? I'd think a major event like that should have least been prophesied in the old Testament

malvisguy212:
the op has been answer, but is because your mind is already made up to rebel against God word.

God predistine human history to fulfill His purpose, He place wicked people at a particular place, in human history just to fulfill his purpose, this people have the opportunity to choose life, but because of free choice, they will choose evil, God already knows all this, so He use them to carry out His plan of salvation. The bible made it clear, jesus CHOOSE judas and not the other way round, apostle paul clear this issue, the answer is in the scripture.

Mr. All these na story for puppets not for reasonable people.

The all loving God has to put his son to that cruel and humiliating suffering because he want to save the people he created ? Pls what is even the moral lesson behind that ?

I believe in Jesus(pbuh) but I don't believe he was ever subjected to that kind of pain and suffering for what ??

Abeg park well.

ronald4lif:
You no dey taya with all these your yeye stories. When are you going to have sense? Only you over a thousand topics and not even one can pass a test of saneness and rationality.

I tire o
You already said my mind.
Seems like her problem pass 9ja own sef

Interesting article. I hope a lot of people would learn a thing or two from this piece.

Part 3:

In the First Letter of John, which was written after the Gospel of John and is very similar to it, we find a continuation of the Gospel of John’s multivalent way of speaking about the Spirit as applying to the Holy Spirit as well as to prophets inspired by the Spirit. In 1 John 3:24 and 1 John 4:13, the author speaks about the gift of the Holy Spirit and how it abides in Jesus’ followers. But in 1 John 4:1-6, in between these mentions of the Holy Spirit, the author speaks at length about testing the spirits. In these verses the word “Spirit” is used to talk about prophets and how to tell whether they are true or false:
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. (1 John 4:2, NRSV)
The author contrasts “the Spirit of God” with the “Spirit of Anti-Christ,” those who are “from God” with those who are “from the world,” and “the Spirit of Truth” with “the Spirit of Error.” This discourse, again, is strikingly similar to the discourse in Deuteronomy about future prophets that I quoted above.
In Deuteronomy 18:20-22, after the promise of a future prophet in 18:18 and the commandment to listen to that prophet in 18:19, criteria are laid out to distinguish a true from a false prophet. Deuteronomy threatens that a prophet who speaks for another god or who falsely speaks on God’s behalf “shall die” (18:20). It also advises the Israelites to ignore prophets who prophecy falsely:

If a prophet speaks in the name of the Eternal but the thing does not take place or prove true, it is a word that the Eternal has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; do not be frightened by it. (18:22, NRSV)

In the same way, but using different criteria, the author of 1 John defines true prophets and false prophets relative to their allegiance to Jesus, God, and the early followers of Jesus. Part of the dynamic of the early community of Jesus’ followers was that many claimed the inspiration of the Spirit and prophesied. The author of 1 John is especially worried about Docetic versions of Christianity that had developed denying that Jesus “came in the flesh”; in these versions of Christianity Jesus was not an actual human being but rather an angelic being that only appeared to be human. Such a version of Christianity, obviously, would have been quite disconnected from the actual teachings and values of Jesus of Nazareth and his earliest followers, who knew him as a real human being.
It is worth noting that Muhammad meets these criteria insofar as the Qur’an affirms that Jesus is the Messiah and that he “came in the flesh.”
In the history of Christianity, all of the negative terms in 1 John 4:1-6 have been used against Muhammad. He has been identified with “the Spirit of Anti-Christ” and the “Spirit of Error.” However, the time has come for Christians to recognize how wrong we have been in these assessments and to correct the record by affirmatively identifying Muhammad with “the Spirit of Truth.”

When we look at Islam as a world religion, and see that 1.6 billion people and growing are following in the way of Muhammad, the time has surely come to recognize him as a prophet. If Muhammad is not a prophet, who is? It is understandable, really, that so many Christians have been defensive and have reacted negatively to Islam. That kind of group-ego, fear-based response is part of human nature. However, it is absurd for us to continue to see Muhammad as a heretical Christian or false prophet given that Islam has lasted for nearly 1,400 years, has supported monumental cultural, spiritual, artistic, political, moral, and intellectual achievements, and has a tremendous and vibrant global following.
There is no better candidate than Muhammad, no one in fact that comes even close, in terms of fulfilling Jesus’s promise of the Spirit of Truth who would bring forth a new revelation from God. I do not have space in this article to explore the many Qur’anic verses directly addressed to Christians, but if we were to receive them our religion would be transformed for the better and would come into balance with Judaism and Islam.

Jesus knew it would be difficult for us to accept his guidance from another source. But he did not want our fear of the apparent otherness of the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur’an to separate us from the Way, the Truth, and the Life; that is, the Word of God. This is why he spoke to the disciples reassuringly about the Spirit of Truth, saying, “he will glorify me”; and, for the same reason, he emphasized the unity of his teaching with the revelations to come, twice repeating the promise, “he will take what is mine and declare it to you” (John 16:14-15, NRSV). Based on the promises of Jesus, Christians can encounter the Qur’an without fear, knowing that it is a revelation which glorifies Jesus and, in a spiritual sense, is from him.

What we have in the Gospel of John is a biblical portal between Christianity and Islam. If we choose to walk through it in faith we will discover that our religions issue from the same divine source; we will discover that we are siblings in faith, meant to bear witness to the truth side by side (John 15:26-27) and collaborate in manifesting God’s will on Earth as it is in Heaven. I invite Christians everywhere to look carefully at our scriptures, search our souls, consider our history, and seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit in answering this question: “Has the time come for Christians to see Muhammad as Spirit of Truth?”

Source: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/9762934.html

Part 2:
The Gospel of John is the latest canonical version of the Gospel—it was written at least a generation after the synoptic gospels and probably two generations or more after Paul’s letters. The author of the Gospel of John, often called the beloved disciple, claims to be the last living witness to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In a passage at the end of the Gospel he tells a story about an encounter with the risen Jesus that made him and others believe that he would live to see Jesus’ second coming.


" Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; he was the one who had reclined next to Jesus at the supper and had said, “Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?” When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about him?” Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!” So the rumor spread in the community that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?” This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true. (John 21:20-24, NRSV) "


This passage shows us that the author of the Gospel of John is in a different paradigm than earlier New Testament authors insofar as he no longer expects Jesus’ imminent second coming. Paul, for example, who wrote in the decades immediately following Jesus’ death and resurrection, believed that Jesus would return while most of the people he was preaching to were still alive. The author of the Gospel of John looks for new meaning in Jesus’ promise of the Spirit of Truth or Advocate because he realizes he will die before Jesus returns. When his Gospel was published he was likely already dead and his community was looking forward into a longer and more complicated future than originally expected.

The Gospel of John plays a similar role for the New Testament as Deuteronomy does for the Torah. Deuteronomy is the latest text of the Torah—it reiterates the Law of Moses as told in the four earlier books—and like the Gospel of John it predicts a future prophet:

" I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.(Deut 18:18-19, NRSV) "


Both Deuteronomy and the Gospel of John are reflections on specific revelations—the Torah and Gospel—and both indicate that there is more revelation to come. The Gospel of John’s language for the Spirit of Truth or Advocate is strikingly similar to Deuteronomy’s: “he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come” (John 16:13, NRSV).


Like Deuteronomy, the Gospel of John opens up an expectation for future revelation. John’s prophecy is not so specific that it must apply to Muhammad and only Muhammad. But insofar as the Qur’an makes the claim that Muhammad is the Spirit of Truth or Advocate that Jesus foretold, a strong interpretive option emerges for Christians to receive Muhammad as a prophet that Jesus predicts when he says:


"I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you. (John 16:12-15, NRSV) "


In this passage, the description of the Advocate or Spirit of Truth is qualitatively different than earlier mentions. Here we see the Spirit of Truth speaking not through the disciples but to them. Earlier, in John 14:17, Jesus says that this Spirit of Truth will abide with his followers and be in them; throughout the Gospel of John the Holy Spirit is spoken of as an abiding, inner presence. Again, in 14:26, Jesus says that the Advocate will “remind you of all that I have said to you.” In these passages, Jesus is talking about the Holy Spirit who helps his followers understand what he has said. Essentially, this would have been the experience of the beloved disciple, the author of the Gospel of John, who was guided by the presence of the Spirit in remembering and interpreting Jesus’ words and deeds (which he does spiritually rather than literally). However, in John 16:12-15, Jesus is talking about a Spirit of Truth who will bring forth new revelations, who will say the “many things” that Jesus does not say because his followers “cannot bear them now.”

The clear distinction is that the Spirit of Truth in John 16 is predicted to declare new revelations not merely remind Jesus’ disciples of what he already said, as in John 14. The idea that he will “declare to you the things that are to come” is especially important because it acknowledges the uncertainty about the future that Jesus’ followers faced, given the fact that he had not returned as soon as expected. Jesus asserts that this future prophet will glorify him by declaring a new revelation that will come from the same source as his message: God. This discourse is designed to open the minds of Christians to receive a future revelation not as something that competes with or diminishes the Gospel, but rather as something that glorifies Jesus.

Unfortunately, these words in the Gospel of John have been totally missed by Christians who reject and belittle the Qur’an; we have for the most part completely ignored the unity of the Gospel and the Qur’an in terms of their common revelatory source. However, if we take Jesus’ words seriously, we have the opportunity to receive the Word of God in the Qur’an in accordance with Jesus’ promise that the Spirit of Truth “will take what is mine and declare it to you.” We can accept the Qur’an as a revelation, not in opposition to the Gospel, but in unity with the Gospel and the will of Jesus.

Did Jesus Predict Muhammad ? A Biblical Portal Between Christianity and Islam

Part 1:

The time has come for Christians and Muslims to make peace between our communities. Christians and Muslims already make up more than half of the global population, and these numbers are expected to grow in the coming decades; according to the Pew Research Center, by 2050, two thirds of humanity, some 5.7 billion people, will be either Christian or Muslim.

Our planet simply cannot afford another century of misunderstanding and violence between these two communities. The challenges we face as a global human family are profound: ongoing warfare and nuclear proliferation, global poverty and economic inequality, climate change and ecological degradation. How will humanity handle these crises and others if our two largest religious communities are embroiled in constant conflict, if misunderstanding defines our relationship? As contemporary theologian Hans Kung has argued for decades, there will be no peace between our nations without peace between our religions. Now is the time to transform the way Christians and Muslims see and relate to each other.

In an earlier blog on the Huffington Post about the problem of Christian Islamophobia, I argue that Christians have the opportunity to transform the way we see Islam and Muslims by accepting Muhammad as “Spirit of Truth.”

Historically, most Christian theologians—including John of Damascus, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Nicholas of Cusa, and Martin Luther—have seen Muhammad not as a “Spirit of Truth” but as a “Spirit of Error,” a false prophet or heretic. There are many Christians today who respect the Islamic tradition and would never make such an offensive statement about
Muhammad.

However, the majority of Christians still maintain a fundamentally Islamophobic position on Muhammad. So I believe that the time has come for peacemaking Christians to contradict this position directly. Changing our view of Muhammad—so that we recognize him as a true prophet rather than discredit him as a false prophet—would effectively inoculate Christians against Islamophobia and would help to establish a new paradigm of cooperative Christian-Muslim relations.

In Jesus’ farewell discourse in the Gospel of John (chapters 14 to 16), Jesus speaks about the coming of the “Spirit of Truth” or “Advocate” (in Greek,parakletos). For centuries Muslim interpreters have seen Muhammad as this “Advocate,” based on Qur’an 61:6, a verse in which Jesus predicts the coming of a future prophet named Ahmad: “O Children of Israel! Truly I am the Messenger of God unto you, confirming that which came before me in the Torah and bearing glad tidings of a Messenger to come after me whose name is Ahmad” (61:6,The Study Quran). Ahmad, which is another name for Muhammad, is very close etymologically to the Greek word,parakletos, so it is likely that the Qur’an is claiming that Jesus’ farewell discourse in the Gospel of John predicts Muhammad. The major objection to applying these predictions to Muhammad or any other prophet is that Christians normally read them as part and parcel of Jesus’ promise of the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus’s promise of the Holy Spirit is an essential part of the Christian faith and my interpretation of Muhammad as Spirit of Truth affirms this. John 14:16-17 and 14:26 are clearly about the promise of the Holy Spirit: in John 14:16-17, the Advocate or Spirit of Truth is spoken of as an everlasting, invisible, abiding, inner presence; in most manuscripts, this Advocate is even directly called “the Holy Spirit” in John 14:26. But as Jesus’ farewell discourse proceeds these titles become multivalent and, in John 15:26-27 and 16:7-15, they begin to refer more to a future prophet than to the Holy Spirit. Some Muslim interpreters who identify Muhammad with the Advocate argue that this title does not refer to the Holy Spirit at all—and that the text of John has been corrupted so as to obfuscate its direct link to Muhammad. But I believe that the titles Spirit of Truth and Advocate are used in the Gospel of John, first of all, to speak about the promise of the Holy Spirit—and I do not believe that the text has been changed to hide anything.

This interpretation of John opens us up to Muhammad as Spirit of Truth in a way that affirms the integrity of the Christian tradition. But before I explain the fine details of my exegesis I want to speak briefly to the big picture of why the Gospel of John, in particular, tells us that Jesus predicts a future prophet.

AnonyNymous:
From the responses so far, there has been no solid response. Seun, Lalasticlala, Obinoscopy, PLEASE push this to the FP, I'd like to hear different opinions on this.

You'd be wasting your time if you're expecting any reasonable answers from here. Why ? Because they don't have it. Why's that ? Because it doesn't make sense. It still doesn't make sense cuz it never happened.

God said ' Thou shall not kill'
Why would he then send his son(that's if it's true) to get killed on earth

Christians use your heads !!!