The Bible contains the teachings of Jesus. Does the Quran contain any teachings of Jesus not found in the Bible?
it does not contain new teachings of Jesus, but it clarifies the kind of relationship Jesus had with God. a relationship of man-to-God. the fundamental teaching of Jesus being
'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ is Explicit !
He is talking to a man who asks him how to make it to heaven ? and he tells him Explicitly
'Love the Lord' ... God ... did he said 'love me' ? had it been that, he would have used the world 'me' instead of 'the'. not that you are not to love him, but if you want to make it to heaven, the commandment you shall keep is that one... to
'Love the Lord' ... he makes it MORE Explicit by adding '
Your God'
Jesus Christ made it Explicit that his relationship with God is one of a Human-to-God relationship.
and God made it VERY Explicit how He is ''One and Only'' in the old testament, if He is ' Three' or became 'Three' then why does He not make that statement just as Explicit as He made it in the old testament?
the brief statement which follows is not a polemic in any sense of the word, but a purely objective summary of the relation between the two religions (Christianity and Islam). It is impossible to write of Islam without saying something about its predecessors, if only because the Quran claims to confirm and to correct the earlier scriptures of Jews and Christians.
Perhaps the most direct way of indicating the relation would be to take the Apostles' Creed, as the document regarded by practically all Christians as an authoritative summary of their faith, and see how far the Quran agrees with it (the words in italics are rejected by Islam):
I believe in GOD
the Father
Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:
And in Jesus Christ
His only son, our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified and buried, He descended into Hell; The third day
He rose again from dead,
He ascended into Heaven,
and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
From thence He shall come
to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost;
The Holy Catholic Church
The Comission of Saints;
The Communion of Saints;
The Forgiveness of sins;
The Resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.
If we went outside the Quran for parallels with Christian doctrine we should find some, but we should enter into the field of controversy, and therefore these notes will be confined exclusively to what the Quran itself says on the subjects which fall within the scope of the Apostles' Creed.
The Father. This is a term abhorrent to Muslims in reference to God, because it is understood in the sense of physical generation, and to say that God is a father implies to their mind that he must have a wife: therefore on that ground they are perfectly right in rejecting the term as blasphemous. Nor do they admit the term in the metaphorical sense that God is the father of all men, who stand to him in relation of children.
Jesus Christ is believe to be an apostle sent by God. He is a man and the slave of God.
Conceived by the Holy Spirit. (cf. Holy Quran 21:91)
'And (remember) her who guarded her chastity: We breathed into her of Our spirit, and We made her and her son a sign for all peoples.' this inbreathing of the divine spirit is recorded also of the creation of Adam
(Quran 15:29): 'And when I have made him a complete man and breathed into him of My Spirit, fall you down prostrating yourselves to him.' It is clear from these two passages that the Holy Spirit is not necessarily a person, but rather an emanation. In Islam in other texts it is understood to be Gabriel, because it is he that communicated the Quran to Muhammad in
(Quran 2:291), while in
(Quran 16:104) it is the Holy Spirit. Similarly
(Quran 19:17) reads,
'We sent to her [Mary] Our Spirit and he took the form of a full-grown man.' Further
(Quran 4:171) says of Jesus:
'The Messiah, the Son of Mary, is only and a spirit from Him. So believe in God and His apostles and do not say "Three". Forbear! (it is) better for you. Allah is but One God; Exalted is He above having a son. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. And sufficient is Allah as Disposer of affairs.' The conception of spirit in the Quran is difficult to follow. Other passages speak of angels being sent down with the spirit to whom God wills of his creatures. The 'Holy Spirit' is mentioned four times in the Quran:
(2:81) 'We gave Jesus, the Son of Mary the plain indications and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit' and similarly
(5:109) 'But all true believers are strengthened with the Holy Spirit' and in
(58:22) and
(16:104)
The most that can be said is that it is the plain teachings of the Quran, that Jesus is a kind of a Second Adam in that he was created by the immediate action of God through his breath, and not by human generation. It cannot be said that it teaches that the Holy Spirit is God himself; the Holy Spirit is the breath or wind of God.
Peace