Who deserves to be Worshiped ?

Both Christianity and Islam teach that Jesus was fully human; he was a man who
was born, got hungry and thirsty, got tired and slept, felt pain, was tempted, and had
other physical functions. But Christians are asked to believe that while Jesus was
fully human, he was somehow – at the same time – fully divine. In other words, He
is the Creator (and was not created Himself), yet his human body was created in
Mary’s womb. In Islam, God is the Creator, not the created; He is all powerful and
cannot be constrained by human limitations; He is All Knowing, All Seeing, and All
Hearing. How can we accept that God Himself, the Creator and the All Powerful,
was a human being like us, with our human frailties?
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In the Bible, the expression ‘son’ has been used to refer to many of the earlier
prophets. Israel, for example, was called the ‘Son of God’ in one of the books of
Moses, “Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD, Israel is my firstborn
son.” (Exodus 4:22)
The same title was given to David.
I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have
begotten you. (Psalms 2:7)
Likewise, Prophet Solomon was called the Son of God.
He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his
father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever. (I Chronicles,
22:10)
Throughout the Bible, the word ‘son’ is used to refer to ‘nearness to God in
love’. This is ascertained when we see Jesus himself saying that every man who did
the will of the Father in heaven was a Son of God.
Jesus was reported to have said in the following verses:
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Compiled from Caraballo, My Great Love for Jesus Led Me to Islam.
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