Jesus tells us that Islam is a religion of the Devil

A belief which has become fairly popular in our world today is the belief in religious universalism. What this means is that all religions contain equal amounts of the same truth, just told to different people at different times in different contexts. It is the belief that all religions lead to God. I will be taking the time to expose such false beliefs in a whole new post alone, yet because this page is about Christ’s view of the Islamic doctrine, it seemed fit to speak of this in the opening introduction.

When we look at both religions, we see that there is much in common between Christianity and Islam. However, there is strong disagreement when it comes to the person of Jesus. For example: Christ’s death,crucifixion and resurrection is not a doctrine that is found within the Quran. In fact, the Quran goes as far as to say that these things did not even happen!:

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That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:- Quran chapter 4 verse 157
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The Islamic belief is that Jesus was raised to God before all this could have happened to him:

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Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise;- Quran chapter 4 verse 158.
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Now, let us see what Jesus has to say about such beliefs.

In the following passages, Jesus had just finished telling the disciples about who he really was. After he had done so, he began to tell the disciples that he must suffer many things by the religious leaders. He also told them that he would die and that on the third day he would be raised to life:

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[20] Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.
[21] From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
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After Christ displays unto his disciples the things which must happen against him, Peter took him aside and told him that these things should never happen to him. Now it is easy to understand why he had said such a thing. First of all, he did not fully understand the purpose behind Christ’s death, that it would be fulfilling scripture and bringing about the forgiveness of sins. It was also because he developed a great love for the teacher and therefore even thinking of such things were a pain to him. Peter’s denial of these things, although his intentions might have been different, falls in harmony with what the Quran has to say about Christ. That these things never happened to him.

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[22] Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
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When we come into view of Jesus’s reply in the following verse, it is almost impossible not to conclude that the Islamic religion is based off of a satanic influence. This is because when Jesus took Peter aside, he rebuked him by calling him Satan. He also told him that he does not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men:

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[23] But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
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Because Peter’s denial of Christ’s death, crucifixion and resurrection walks in harmony with the things the Quran says about Christ, mainly that he was not killed and neither was he crucified, we can conclude that if Jesus were to say that Peter was under the influence of Satan for saying such things, then Jesus would view Islam in the same manner. That it is a religion of man that is inspired of the Devil.

John the Baptist believed Jesus to be God

In the opening part of chapter 3, we read that John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea. Matthew shows us that John was not just a man, but a messenger of the Creator:

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[3] For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

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When we read the story of Christ’s baptism, we quickly see that John was not only preaching about repentance and baptizing the crowd, but he was also telling the people who had come to him about the coming Christ:

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[11] I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

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Right away what we notice is that Jesus is greater than John. This here is very important to understand because it displays to us that Christ was not limited to being just a prophet because Jesus was greater than a prophet. So the question arises: why did John believe Jesus to be so much greater than he? What made him so special? The answer is given by John in the following passage:

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[12] Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

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This little story about the wheat and the chaff is pointing to Judgement day. As we know from the scriptures, God is the only one who is fit to judge mankind on the last day. Yet what we see here is John believing that Jesus will take this role upon himself. It is Christ who will bring the believers (wheat) into heaven (the garner) and it is he who will burn the unbelievers (chaff) with fire. Another thing that is important for us to notice is John’s wording when it comes to Christ purging the floor. The phrase does not say THE floor, but HIS floor. The floor as we can see from the context refers to the world. In other words, the world belongs to Jesus Christ.

So what we see when we examine the story is that as God is the judge of mankind, Jesus is the judge of mankind. As the world belongs to God, the world belongs to Jesus.

So the reason why John believed Jesus to be greater than he was not because he was some better prophet. It was not because he was some enlightened being. But because he was God in the flesh.

Jesus is omnipresent

In the beginning of the Gospel of Saint John, we come to a story where Jesus meets a man named Nathaniel. Nathaniel was brought to Jesus by a man named Philip after he was called by Christ to follow him.

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[43] The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.
[44] Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
[45] Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

[46] And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.

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What we must notice is that when reading this story and coming to understand the proper context, we see that this is the first time that Jesus and Nathaniel would meet. Furthermore, there is no sign within John’s gospel that Jesus had ever seen Nathaniel prior to this encounter which was created by Philip. However, when we come to the section where he finally meets Jesus, we read something that is pretty interesting:

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[47] Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

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Before we come to display that Jesus is omnipresent, let us first view the meaning behind the above saying of Christ. As said before, this is the first time Jesus and Nathaniel come to meet each other. Hence, there is no way that Jesus could have  known anything about him. Also there is no verse within the bible that tells us that Jesus heard of Nathaniel by someone else before this meeting ever took place. Yet despite all this, we see that Jesus knows about Nathaniel, both his character, his nationality, and probably everything else there is to know about him. This would only make sense if Jesus were omniscient. Let us see how Nathaniel responded:

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[48] Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

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The very fact that Nathaniel said “ how do you know me?” is evidence that they have never met before. Also notice the answer Christ provides to him. He doesn’t say that someone else has told him about Nathaniel like many might come to think. Rather, Jesus displays unto him another quality which he possesses: Omnipresence. According to the gospel, Jesus was nowhere near Nathaniel until Peter called him. Hence this verse would make no sense unless Jesus were so. The fact that this had to be due to his omnipresence is shown by the amazing reaction Nathaniel displayed:

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[49] Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.

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If Jesus were anywhere near Nathaniel prior to this encounter, hence enabling him to see him, then he would not have been this surprised, insomuch that he would go as far as saying that he is the king of Israel and the son of God. Nathaniel’s reaction proves to us that Christ seeing him under the fig tree was due to a supernatural ability.