Jesus a Muslim Prophet or Christianity's Son of God?

The word "religion" in the Bible means “ceremonial service and worship to God”. In the Qur’an, it means “submission”. However, today this word may be used to refer to any set of beliefs, whether or not this set of beliefs includes service and worship to God or submission to God is yet to be decided. Religion, whether it is according to the Christian or the Islam definition, mainly teach people to be good by trying to activate the good nature that is within them. Both Islam’s and Christians teach people to love, to help and not hurt others, to do good deeds. At the same time, they teach their people to ask God for help. They also promise that God will reward their people if they do well. Christians and Islam’s seem to be talking about the same God, yet their views are different when it comes to Jesus. Is Jesus a great messenger and prophet or is he the Son of God.

Islam’s think highly of Jesus, they consider him one of the greatest of God's prophets and messengers to humankind. The Qur'an confirms his virgin birth, and a special surah of the Qur'an is entitled "Mary." “She said: 'O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched me?' He said: 'Even so, God creates what He wills. When He decrees a thing, He says to it, "Be!" and it is.'" (Qur'an 3:42-7) The Qur'an speaks of Jesus being born of a miraculous birth without a father. According to the Qur’an Jesus was born miraculously through the same power that had brought Adam into being without a father: "Truly the likeness of Jesus with God is as the likeness of Adam. He created him of dust and then said to him, 'Be!' and he was." (Qur'an 3:59)

Christians also believe that Jesus was born to a human virgin mother named Mary whom the Bible says was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit, which resulted in her pregnancy, and she gave birth to him while still a virgin. “Then said Mary unto the angel, how shall this be, seeing I know not a man" The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.” (Luke 1:35) So in a Christian’s view Jesus was not created out of dust and told to be and was as the Islam’s say, but from God’s holy spirit.

In addition, Christians unlike Islam’s believe that there is one God who created the world and everything in it through Jesus, who is also God. The two are not separate gods. They are part of the same God, with the same perfect, sinless nature. He is God's natural, spiritually born son. “And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

(Mathew 3:16-17)

According to the Qur’an Jesus was given many miracles as a prophet. These included speaking soon after his birth in defense of his mother Mary faithfulness and reverence to God. Jesus was given gifts to him by God included healing the blind and the sick, reviving the dead, making a bird out of clay and most importantly, the message he was carrying. The Qur'an tells us that he said: "I have come to you with a sign from your Lord: I make for you out of clay, as it were, a figure of a bird, and breathe into it and it becomes a bird by God's leave. And I heal the blind, and the lepers, and I raise