My reply to The Question; Was Jesus the son of Mary a Christian?

A poster on one of Nigeria popular online forum post this:
Was Jesus the son of Mary a Christian? I always ask my christian friends this question, and for them to even show me where he said I am a christian in the Bible, but none has ever given me the right answer, so i said let me ask my fellow Muslims this.

And a Christian poster reply with this;
Why play with words. Christian simply means 'Christ like ' or 'Follower of Christ'. You can call yourself anything as long as the fundamentals-

1. Accepting that all have sinned & come short of the glory of God (Original Sin)
2. Recognise that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God,born of a virgin and sent as the Messiah of mankind (Al masih- All confirmed by the glorious Koran Surah 19.
3. Accept Him by faith.

are followed.

Some people use other words - Born-Again,pentecostal,Evangelist etc. . .it honestly doesn't matter.

Talking about word play. The father of the Holy prophet Mohammed was an idol worshipper and his name was Abd allah(slave of allah) is it possible the idol he was a slave of is the same allah the holy prophet prophesed to be serving ?

The more muslims feel the have the 'gotcha' factor the more they find themselves grabbing at straws


I reply with this ;

just to clarify these, that from time memorial, the idol worshippers believe that there is a Creator and Lord who some called Allah, God, Olorun etc. so even before islam, the Arabs believe in existence of Allah and that is why some of them bear those names.

But some of the differences that distinguishes islam from other religion is that the Creator or Allah is the only One that deserves to be worship and nothing else. infact, He should be worship without any intermediary not even through Jesus (pbuh) and the Prophet (pbuh).

Muslims also believe that the several miracles by Jesus were all by Allah Grace and just as Moses (pbuh) was able to communicate with God directly why none was able to do that not even Prophet Muhammed, Jesus, Abraham (pbuh) etc

the Quran confirmed all that about Jesus but It does not say that Jesus is the begotten son nor was he cruxified.

lastly, as a student of knowledge, i will advice that you keep an open mind and try and do some research about islam online and find out a bit about islam, it is a complete way of life. i have done that before and am still doing that.
May the Lord Guide us all.



Note; I did not edit anything, I posted just as they wrote it.