All Muslims acknowledge that Jesus (Isa) was a prophet and a messenger of God. He is also called Al-Masih (the Messiah) in the Qur‘an, although most Muslims would only mean by this that he was anointed to preach salvation to the people of Israel. His virgin birth, his miracles, especially his power to raise the dead and his purity are also generally accepted. Read more
The claim that God raised Jesus from the grave is so stupendous that no one could be expected to believe it without very strong evidence. Yet without the resurrection there would have been no gospel, no Christian faith, no church and no New Testament. There might, of course, have been a community of people who honored Jesus of Nazareth and tried to follow his teaching, but that would have been an entirely different thing. So the question is: does such evidence exist? Read more
