What Jesus Means to Christians and Muslims

Each group claims their version of the truth is the absolute truth, which means the other group’s truth is not the truth. The source of all conflict between Muslims and Christians is about the persona of Jesus.

What Muslims believe is not the same as what Christians believe about Jesus. Christians believe that Jesus is God incarnate or son of the God, whereas Muslims believe that he was a revered prophet. The immature human in each one of us resorts to calling the other a liar.

What difference does it make if Jesus is Son of a God or a prophet? Nothing changes, not a thing changes in the world except your belief, and that belief is nurtured and not natural. Meaning, you can raise a child to believe one or the other, he or she will grow up with that belief. Would Jesus change because of our belief? No, not all. He is who he is for Jews, Christians, and Muslims and Baha’i – others have not incorporated him into their belief systems.

Both the groups believe that they know the truth, because God has said so. You have to ask God, why he said two different things, and why should you be right and others be wrong. If you believe Jesus is son of a God, so be it, and so be it if he is a prophet. He loves us all the same, and if he were to walk on the earth today… do you believe he will not love you, even if you tell him he is no son of a God? If you believe that, you are yet to understand Jesus.

None of this matter to God, what matters to him is if you were good to his creation; life and environment. Good to fellow humans and responsible to create a cohesive society where each person lives without fear of the other.

The best option is to learn to respect the otherness of others, and accept the God given uniqueness of each one of us, then conflicts fade and solutions emerge – both the religions lay emphasis on forgiveness and taking care of the neighbor. None of us are alike in our thumbprint, taste bud and DNA – why should we be alike in our faith? What Muslims believe works for them just as what Christians believe works for them? You believe what you believe and I believe what I believe – let’s figure out living respectfully with each other.

I will be writing a series of short notes involving almost every religion. Over the years I have written over 800 pieces on Pluralism – of which 200 are at Dallas Morning News and 125 plus at Huffington post alone. You can check out www.foundationforpluralism.blogspot.com and on facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/PluralismCenter. Almost all of my articles are home at www.TheGhouseDiary.com

By the way, I am a big follower of Jesus without being a political Christian.

Thank you

Mike Ghouse
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Mike Ghouse is a public speaker, thinker, writer and a commentator on Pluralism at work place, politics, religion, society, gender, race, culture, ethnicity, food and foreign policy. He is a staunch defender of human rights and his book standing up for others will be out soon, and a movie "Americans together" is in the making. He is a frequent guest commentator on Fox News and syndicated Talk Radio shows and a writer at major news papers including Dallas Morning News and Huffington Post. All about him is listed in 63 links at www.MikeGhouse.net and his writings are at www.TheGhousediary.com and 10 other blogs. He is committed to building cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day.