Compare Crucifixion And Resurrection In The Gospels And The Quran

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Jesus’s Crucifixion and Resurrection in the Gospels and the Quran
Jesus’s Crucifixion and Resurrection are both highly important events that take place in the Gospels, or the major Christian books of the Bible, the sacred text of multitudes of religions. Many Christians around the world believe that Jesus was crucified and then rose from the dead after his death at the hands of his own people, the Jews. In the New Testament of the Bible, there are four Gospels each with their own personal account of Jesus’s death and Resurrection. These four accounts vary slightly, but remain very alike each other within those two important events through shared imagery and explanation of the main elements. Yet in the Quran, things are a little different in
He works to deliver the messages of the Lord and to bring people to heaven. In the Bible Jesus states that we should obey his Father, while in the Quran he says to fear the Lord and obey himself. This is not to say that the Quran implies that Jesus wants us to treat him as Lord. For it also says in the Quran that Jesus does not want us to worship him or his mother as gods, but to pay all respect unto the Lord. The Bible describes Jesus as saying similar things. He asks us to obey his Father and to follow the Lord’s word and commandments so that we can one day join them in
As stated by Daryl E. Witmer, “Without the Crucifixion the Resurrection becomes irrelevant, and without the resurrection Christianity itself is rendered meaningless, i.e. I Corinthians 15:14 "and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain."” (Witmer). So without the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, everything that Jesus taught and preached towards end up being for nothing. So the fact that Jesus was not crucified for our sins in the Quran makes Christian doctrines meaningless. Even though both are sacred texts for different religions, both believe in the existence of Jesus. Yet the contradictions of the events of the Crucifixion and Resurrection pose many complications to who the person of Jesus actually was. Due to these complications, some of the beliefs that the people of both these religions hold to be true are put into

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