Did Allah invent Christianity

Did Allah invent Christianity?

By Sami Zaatari

One often repeated claim made by Christians is that Allah invented, or spread Christianity. They make this claim because of Surah 4:157 which reads:

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YUSUFALI: 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:-

They claim that this incident led to the invention of Christianity, or spread of Christianity.

Now off course as usual they are wrong, for several reasons, let us first examine what the verse actually says, and then see what Christianity says.

So to the verse, let us explain the verse words for words, starting with:

That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah

This was referring to the Jews, they were very proud of themselves, and were showing off amongst themselves that they killed Jesus, they even mocked him by calling him the messenger of God and the Messiah, although he was indeed the messenger of God and Messiah, they didn't believe it, and hence they were calling him these names as a form of mockery, not from sincerity.

The verse goes on to say:

";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them

As you can see, they in fact did not kill him, nor was he crucified, he was never killed, rather Allah saved Jesus, and Allah made it appear to the Jews who were present and the Romans who were carrying out the execution that Jesus was killed, when in fact it was not him.

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:-

The verse finally goes on to refute those who say otherwise, that Jesus did die, the Quran claims that those who make these claims and the people who don't agree with the Quranic account do not agree with themselves on what happened, and that they follow nothing but corruption in regard to what happened to Jesus. Basically the truth of the matter is that Jesus was not killed, and all other interpretations that say he was are lies and fabrications.

Now from where to Christians assume that this invented Christianity? To start off with, Christianity is a faith that believes that Jesus DIED on the cross, for the sins of man, and resurrected. If anything this verse is the complete opposite of Christianity! The verse says Jesus did not die, which means there is no resurrection, and which means no one died for our sins! Hence this verse and Christianity are 360% apart!

It was Paul who invented Christianity, not Allah, it was Paul who later came to the scene and started making things up about this event. Let us make it clear, that had some people believed that Jesus had died then we say there would be no problem with that, as it appeared to them that he did. So there would be no problems if people believed Jesus had died, in fact that would have been the end of the matter, that the Jews had killed another prophet, case closed.

The true deception arose when Paul came, when he claimed that the one who died on the cross whom he believed to have been Jesus died for our sins, and rose on the third day, that my friends is the deception and the invention! Christians have always been attacking straw man when they say Allah's action led to the invention of Christianity, because it did not at all, where did Allah give permission for the people to say Jesus rose from the dead, or that Jesus died for our sins? Where did Allah give permission for this? All Allah did was save the prophet Jesus from the evil Jews, and made it appear to them that hey had killed Jesus. However so Paul abused this incident and made several things up, such as Jesus rising from the dead, and dying for our sins.

So I repeat, if there were some people who believed Jesus had died on the cross there would have been no sin on them, the sin is that if these people later on started believing myths that Jesus in fact rose on the third day, and died for our sins, that is what they would get sins for, because they are following a doctrine with no basis and a doctrine which was not preached by Jesus. And the fact is Allah never gave any single reason for such myths to arise, it was Paul who abused this situation and began inventing myths about what happened on that day, and this is what led to the invention of Christianity, not Allah saving Jesus, but Paul making things up!

So Christians should stop being dis-honest and drop this weak untruthful argument that Allah invented Christianity, when in fact he did not, when in fact the fake apostle and anti-Christ Paul invented it. Paul was the one who said Jesus rose from the dead, not Allah; Paul was the one who claimed that Jesus died for our sins, not Allah. And as we all know Jesus himself talked about false prophets that would appear, hence the true believers of Jesus would have been able to distinguish between a true prophet and a false one, for instance a prophet who came and started preaching something that Jesus never did then the believers would naturally know that Paul was a liar and a fake. Therefore the people who did follow Paul have only themselves to blame for believing his fairy tale myths and lies concerning Jesus, it would have been better for them to go straight to the teachings of Jesus himself, and they would have easily seen that Jesus preached there is only one God, and that he (Jesus) is a prophet, not that he came to die for our sins and rise on the third day!

So I call upon all the Christians to return back to the straight path, that which is Islam, as Jesus said:

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YUSUFALI: "'It is Allah Who is my Lord and your Lord; then worship Him. This is a Way that is straight.'"

Ameen!

And Allah Knows Best