John 1

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Bismillah: Assalamo Alikum.


Here is an issue that really bothered me in the past few days.


Christians believes that there is one God manifests Himself in three persons, God the father, the son and the Holy Ghost, three separate persons and yet each is considered to be a complete and fully God. On the other hand, they also believes that Jesus Christ is both, God and man at the same time (<i>fully man and fully God</i>), and so Muslims have concluded or <i>misunderstood</i> (as the Christians would say) that Jesus who is fully God has died on the Cross. The Christians would explain that it was not Jesus ‘<i>the God</i>’ who died on the Cross but Jesus who is made of <i>flesh and bone </i>(i.e. the human Jesus).


Now please ponder over these very famous and often quoted verses:


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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1


After that, the verses continues on explaining how John the Baptist came to preach Jesus the Christ and ‘testify to the light’ etc down to verse number 14 where it says:


<b>And the Word became flesh
and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth. </b>John 1:14


Now here is my point:


- Jesus is the Word


- The Word/Jesus is God


- The Word/Jesus/God became flesh


So who died on the cross? I say naturally God Himself and not simply ‘<i>the human Jesus</i>’, because the Word which is God has become Jesus/flesh who died on the Cross.


Does this make any sense? Any comments (especially from Christian side) ?


Salam


Wael.