In the name of Allah, most gracious and most merciful.
:Jesus said
“Woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!” (Matthew 26:24)"
He said this while warning one of his disciples who would betray and inform him of the government. If the crucifixion is for salvation and by the will and desire of Christ as you claim. Then why woe to those who facilitate the crucifixion?!
Jesus is supposed to thank the man who helped him reach the cross to achieve that desired salvation!
The warning of Jesus indicates that the crucifixion was a conspiracy against him, not a desired goal to achieve salvation.
Jesus spent much of the night praying to God to save him from his crucifixion seekers.
“38 Then He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me." 39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me;” (Matthew 26:36-44)
He was unfortunate that night. If the crucifixion was a goal sought by Jesus, he would not have prayed to God for salvation or to save him. He would not have been sad and depressed. All this indicates that the crucifixion was not a goal sought by Jesus. The crucifixion was a conspiracy against him and Allah saved him from it.
If Jesus willingly offered Himself to be crucified, as you claim, why did the Crucified One cry out on the cross?
"Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" (Matthew 27:46)
According to the record, Jesus considered that God abandoned him and let him fall into the clutches of his enemies. So, the crucifixion was not voluntary and was not for the sake of the salvation of mankind nor the redemption.
Saying salvation by crucifixion encourages people to commit sins. If the crucifixion of Jesus is the way for people to salvation, there is no good left for them after His crucifixion. Due to Jesus has guaranteed them salvation from all sins by redeeming them through his crucifixion.
:Jesus said
“27 " But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.' "(Luke 19)
We do not want to comment on the contradiction of this statement with the statement of Jesus
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“9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Matthew 5)
:But we want to ask
Why does Jesus want to slaughter them if His crucifixion will save them from their sins
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When Jesus knows the imminent conspiracy against him, he asked his disciples to prepare to resist and said:
“" and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one. (Luke 22:36)
?Why the Resistance
?Why the Swords
You say that Jesus offered Himself to be crucified as a ransom for mankind, and here are the texts showing that He urged His disciples to buy swords to resist the soldiers who would lead Him to arrest and crucifixion
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If he had intended to offer himself to the crucifixion, he would not have asked his disciples to resist.
You say that God gave his only son because he loves the world and so that those who believed in him would not perish.
“16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life (John 3)
If God loves people and is kind to them, he must love his son firstly, His only son as you claim. Before God loves people, He must love his son. As you say, who loves his son does not offer him to crucifixion.
The crucifixion of one (Jesus) in this case for the sake of the survival of others is an injustice against Jesus and Allah does not oppress anyone.
?What is Jesus's guilt to be crucified
Adam ate from the tree and Allah punished him by expelling him from Paradise. The case is over. One eats and another is crucified!
?!Is Jesus punished for Adam's sin
?!Is Jesus crucified so that people may enter Paradise
There is no relationship between the sin of Adam and the crucifixion of Jesus nor between the crucifixion of Jesus and the salvation of people
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Allah is can save people without inflicting injustice on Jesus or crucifying
.him or anything else
Jesus prayed to God to save him from those who sought to either kill him or crucify him. He said
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“Father, save Me from this hour'?” (John 3: 12)"
If Jesus had intended to willingly offer himself to the crucifixion for redemption, he would not have asked God to deliver him from that ordeal. His prayer to God to save him is further evidence of the invalidity of the crucifixion to salvation.
:Paul said
6who will render to each one according to his deeds" (Romans 2)"
:And said
3And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?” (Romans 2)
So, there is reckoning and there is judgment and recompense according to deeds. So why was the crucifixion of Jesus
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If the punishment is according to work, then the crucifixion of Jesus has no role in salvation and redemption.
John 3, contrary to the other Gospels, also tells us that it was Jesus who asked the soldiers to spare the way of his disciples by saying
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" 8 if you seek Me, let these go their way,"
.While Mark (14) says: All his disciples fled
" 50 Then they all forsook Him and fled “
:Luke says that only Peter followed him at a distance (22)
“54 But Peter followed at a distance.”
:Matthew says
“Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.” Matthew 26: 54)
What is clear here, as many situations, is the extent of the differences and even contradictions between the four Gospels, which makes man puzzle over which of their narratives to believe and which to unbelieve.
to be continued
By: Al-Athram