Ali Ataie – Differences Between the Jesus of the Bible & the Jesus of the Qur’an

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The transcript discusses the historical context of the reassurance of the Bible's exclusivity and the historical significance of the crucifixion of Jesus. It uses a paraphrase from Dr. Louay Fatib, stating that Jesus was not crucified and that the Bible's version of the flood is more historically accurate than the bible.

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			Our master Isa alaihis salam,
		
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			when the Quran's Christology,
		
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			its statements about Christ even though so so
		
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			so the Quran's Christology make more historical sense
		
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			than what the new testament even teaches about
		
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			Jesus, peace be upon him, even though the
		
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			Quran came 5 100 years after the New
		
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			Testament. This is amazing.
		
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			Most historians today
		
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			do not believe that the historical Jesus, peace
		
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			be upon him, claimed to be divine.
		
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			They say he claimed to be a prophet
		
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			and a healer
		
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			who taught a more relaxed interpretation
		
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			of the Torah,
		
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			and that he spoke of someone to come
		
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			after him, who would bring the kingdom of
		
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			God on earth.
		
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			And when it comes to the crucifixion,
		
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			so here the Christian will point will point
		
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			out to the Muslim and say, look here
		
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			the historian says, Isa alaihis salam was crucified
		
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			but the Quran denies it. But here I
		
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			would say
		
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			that historians have highly over emphasized the historicity
		
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			of the crucifixion. I think if they look
		
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			closely at the evidence again,
		
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			many of them will affirm at least the
		
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			historical
		
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			plausibility
		
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			that Isa alaihi salam was not crucified.
		
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			What does the Quran say? It says those
		
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			who differed about it, meaning the crucifixion,
		
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			were in doubt, in shock concerning it. They
		
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			did not have certain knowledge.
		
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			They did not have
		
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			except that they followed the gun conjecture.
		
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			In other words, none of the evidence
		
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			that Jews and Christians marshal to support Jesus'
		
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			crucifixion,
		
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			none of it was written by an eyewitness
		
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			of this alleged historical event. Every epistle, every
		
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			gospel, every statement in Christian, Jewish and Roman
		
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			sources without exception
		
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			came much later
		
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			and were authored by people who were not
		
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			there.
		
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			Paul was the first person in recorded history
		
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			to claim that Jesus was crucified. This was
		
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			20 years later after after the alleged event,
		
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			and he wasn't even there. Paul never met
		
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			the historical Jesus. He was not a disciple.
		
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			So these sources are conjectural.
		
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			They are.
		
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			Today, we know that this is true.
		
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			The Quran is correct.
		
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			But back when the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam
		
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			first ordered the uttered these words, Christians and
		
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			historians believed that the 4 gospels, that 2
		
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			of them were written by 2 disciples of
		
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			Jesus and the other 2 were written by
		
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			disciples of disciples.
		
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			No historian really believes that anymore.
		
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			The Quran is correct
		
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			Yet most historians continue to drag their feet
		
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			on this issue.
		
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			There's a dogmatism among even secular historians. Don't
		
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			think these people are objective.
		
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			Put put put 50 quote unquote,
		
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			objective secular historians in a room and and
		
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			give them a topic. You have 50 different
		
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			responses, 50 different opinions.
		
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			So allow me to paraphrase an excellent point
		
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			made by doctor Louay Fatori. It's what he
		
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			says. It's a paraphrase. He says, if the
		
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			prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi sallam is the real
		
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			author of the Quran, and he desperately hoped
		
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			to convert Jews and Christians to Islam and
		
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			to become his followers, then why in the
		
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			world did he deny the crucifixion of Jesus
		
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			when both Jews and Christians maintained that he
		
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			was crucified? Why would he invent an uncrucified
		
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			Jesus? Why would he create an unnecessary barrier
		
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			to to, conversion?
		
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			The answer seems to be that the Quran
		
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			is stating an actual fact since it has
		
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			direct access to history
		
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			as a divine revelation.
		
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			It is simply a fact that Jesus of
		
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			Nazareth, the son of Mary, peace be upon
		
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			them, was not crucified.
		
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			So here's the main point, the Quran's version
		
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			of the flood, the exodus, the story of
		
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			Joseph,
		
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			the teachings of Jesus are more historically accurate
		
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			than what the bible says.