1) Young Muslims - The Message

Who is Jesus? According to Jesus(Peace be upon him)Jesus a servant of God.It will be quickly obvious that they often referred to him as aservant of God, but never Son of God. Peter, for example, said:“The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, hasglorified his servant Jesus” (Acts 3:13).Peter further said: “God raised up his servant” (Acts 3:26), wherethe title servant refers to Jesus.Not only Peter, but the entire group of believers viewed Jesus asGod’s servant. When they raised their voices together in prayer toGod, in the course of their speaking to God they called Jesus “yourservant Jesus whom you anointed” (Acts 4:27). They repeated thistitle also in verse 30. Consistently, Jesus was being called servant ofGod by the original followers of Jesus.Some people mistakenly thought that the disciples called Jesus Sonof God. An inconsistency of translation actually helped to give thiswrong impression. In the King James Bible, the translators call Jesus“Son of God” in Acts 3:13, 26, and “child of God” in Acts 4:27. Theysimply translated the Greek word paida as “son” or “child”. But theword paida also means “servant”, and the present context demandsthis translation since the author of Acts is trying in this passage toestablish that Jesus is indeed the servant of God.The translators knew that the Greek word paida means servant.When the same word was used for David in chapter 4, verse 25,they translated it “servant”. Why not call Jesus also by the sametitle? Or, if they feel that “son” is the correct translation, why notalso call David “Son of God”? Jesus and David are both called by thesame title in Greek. Why not call them by a same title in Englishalso?Young Muslims, What they should know about Islam Page - 219