Was Jesus a Muslim

Answer 1

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Answer 1

For Muslims, Jesus is a Muslim was a follower of Islam in its universal sense. Islam means full submission to God and surrender to His will. In this sense all prophets are Muslims and are calling for Islam. However, Islam per God revelation of The Bible to Jesus was called Christianity, Islam per God revelation of Torah to Moses was called Judaism, and Islam per God revelation of Quran to prophet Muhammad is called the very name Islam.

Answer 2

Jesus was neither Muslim or Jewish. He was the leader of the Christian religion so neither one of them is possible.

Answer 3

While Jesus was born into the Jewish religion and culture he is a key player in the Christian New Testament and is also present in the Qur'an as a prophet. He was born some 500 years before the Prophet Mohammed founded Islam and so could not be a Moslem.

Answer 4

Yes, Jesus is Muslim. Islam is an Arabic word that means full submission and surrender to God. In this sense all prophets since Adam are Muslims; including the prophets Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Them). However, followers of Islam per Torah are called Jewish, followers of Islam per the Bible are called Christians, and followers of Islam per Qur'an are called Muslims. Refer to question below.

Answer 5

As a general matter-of-fact, if a person were to walk up to Jesus (while he was alive) and ask him what his religion was, he would say he was Jewish. During the events of the Gospels, there was no such thing as Christianity (as codified by Peter and Paul nearly 70 years later) or Islam (as codified by Mohammed and his successors over 600 years later). It is also clear from Jesus' ministry that he was intending to reform Judaism, not create a second religion. His apostles, however, believed that more than Jewish people should be privy to the type of salvation that Jesus was offering and made the religion more open to non-Jews.

Answer 6

No. Jesus was Jewish, and died about 600 years before the founding of Islam. He is, however, considered by Muslims to be a prophet of Islam, and Mohammed's immediate predecessor.

Answer 7

He was a Jew.

Answer 8

yes in fact he was because Christians and Muslims believe that Jesus was good

Answer 2

Jews accept that Jesus was a Jew. Christians believe that Jesus was born a Jew. However, Muslims believe that the Jewish patriarchs and prophets, and Jesus were really Muslims because Jews and Christians worship the same God as do Muslims. From the Muslim perspective, God willed Jesus to be a prophet and therefore, since God is the God of Islam, Jesus must have been a Muslim.

Answer 3

According to every single group on Earth other than Muslims, Jesus was not a Muslim. Most will assert that because he was born in Judea to Jewish parents, spoke Judeo-Aramaic, and claimed to be a Rabbi that he was a Jew. Some will make the argument that even though he was born to Jews, his spirit was not that of Jew, but perhaps of a Christian or simply Divine. However, they all agree that Jesus was not Muslim because Islam came around roughly 600 years after Jesus died.

Only Muslims assert that Jesus was a muslim. The key to understanding this is that Islam has two meanings that many Muslims and Non-Muslims confuse. There is today's Islam, which refers to the religion codified by Muhammad as a way of properly submitting to the Will of God. There is also "islam" (with a lower-case "i") which is the act of submitting to God without necessarily following the codes and edicts established in Islam. Jesus is considered to be muslim in the act-of-submission sense as opposed to being a Muslim in the Muhammad-sense because he did not follow ideas that came after his death, but the Islamic tradition holds that his prophecy is from those who correctly submitted to the divine will before the edicts came to pass.