Thread: God's Name

Originally Posted by bitpicker

Do you mean to say that Islam views anything in scripture as having been written by Jesus?

Did I say anything remotely resembling that?

From Wikipedia (under "Jesus in Islam"):

"Muslims believe that God revealed to Jesus a new scripture, the Injil (Gospel), while also declaring the truth of other previous revelations, the Tawrat (Torah) and Zabur (Psalms). Descended 600 years after Jesus' life on earth, the Quran speaks favorably of the Injil, which it describes as a scripture that fills the hearts of it's followers with meekness and pity."

Originally Posted by Misha Tal

Did I say anything remotely resembling that?

Yes, you said:

According to the Islamic faith, neither Quran nor Tora were written by mere mortals. Moses, Jesus and Mohammad were not "writers". They didn't make things up. They were only "messengers".

Which implies to me that the three not-mere-mortals in question are the authors of the respective texts by divine intercession, and not others reporting about them. OK, I now see that you didn't mean to say that, but it's how I understood your words. Tradition holds in fact that Moses did write the books of the Pentateuch, completely ignoring the impossibility of it, whereas no such tradition exists regarding Jesus. That Mohammed dictated rather than personally wrote his text is a mere technicality, he's the only one who can be considered an author out of the three.