JESUS IS GOD: A COMPARATIVE SCRIPTURAL SURVEY OF JESUS' TRUE IDENTITY (THE BIBLE AND THE QUR’AN)
Journal Title: ChristoPress Journal of Biblical Research - Year 2024, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
The question, “Who is Jesus?” forms the epicentre of theological discussion, which has culminated in Christological debate in the past and recent times. Right from the New Testament days to the present day, this question generates a lot of conflicting views. The Pharisees and the Sadducees were confused about the personality or real identity of Jesus Christ. Even the church and the people outside it, the heathens, differed in their understandings. In the quest for this enigmatic personality, the paper seeks to revisit the historical Jesus by encapsulating the biblical and qur’anic teachings on His true identity by examining His Virginal Conception, Virginal Birth, and His Names and titles applied to Him in both the Bible and Qur’an to remove doubt and establish the truth. The methodology adopted in this work is solus primus scriptura research (SPSR) (bibliosearch, scriptural or biblical-based research) and expository research model, and extra-biblio sources, such as Quran, Christian books, journals, and websites relevant to the study, as its secondary sources. Though the study concludes that both the Bible and the Quran attest to the divinity (deity) of Jesus, the nuance is that the Bible is explicit while the Quran is implicit about this. In this paper, the implicitness of Qur’an is theologically unveiled and the explicitness of the Bible is theologically embellished and expounded for graphic understanding to establish the truth that Jesus is God.
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Ilesanmi, Dele Alaba
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