# How Jesus Was Turned Into a God! - The Forgotten Jesus | Ep. 1

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If Jesus the Messiah were to walk into a church today, would he accept or even recognize the religion being preached in his name? Or would he openly reject it? If a Christian grew up completely isolated from any church traditions and then read the Bible on his own, would he really arrive at the same faith he holds today? Or would he discover an entirely different understanding of what Jesus actually taught? “How can God be a man and how can he die? So, who is the real Jesus?” This is where our journey begins. A journey to uncover the truth. Is the real Jesus the one portrayed by Christianity or the one described by Islam? This isn't just a religious debate.

It's the story of a massive transformation showing how an entire personality and an entire faith were completely distorted across the centuries. In this series, we will travel through the pages of the Bible and uncover the hidden details between the lines. We will revisit the most remarkable moments in the life of Jesus, peace be upon him, and go back to the earliest period when the Gospels were first put into writing. We will then witness the crucial turning point when his message reached the polytheistic lands of Greece and Rome, and explore the true identity of Jesus from every possible angle.

“Have you heard what Jesus brought?” “He calls us to worship one God whom we cannot see.” “This new faith is spreading through the people. It must not remain beyond our reach.” “Do not leave anyone who preaches this new faith of Jesus.” We prepared this four-part series through extensive research and months of dedicated work. We directly challenged prominent Christian theologians with the arguments you are about to hear. Yet, they were unable to provide convincing answers. But we didn't stop there. We searched for real stories and interviewed more than 20 former Christians who went on the same search for truth and eventually found the answers they were looking for in Islam.

We'll also hear some of the facts they discovered along the way in their own words. In this video series, you will explore the most fundamental and critical issues in Christianity in a way you've never heard before. Now grab your coffee, sit back, and let's begin. Now we go back 2,000 years. You see a man standing in the streets of Jerusalem with only a handful of believers beside him. Driven by a burning desire to save his people from eternal loss, he walks tirelessly from town to town, risking his life every single day. His name is Jesus, the Messiah. “Yes, he is a prophet sent by God.” He owns nothing. He asks for nothing. “Did you see Jesus raise a dead man to life?” “Silence!

You believe this nonsense? He's just a magician.” But they had no idea that one day over 2.3 billion Christians and 2 billion Muslims would believe in him. And yes, this is probably the most widespread misconception Christians have about Islam. Most often believe that it's a religion that denies or even disrespects Jesus. But the truth is the exact opposite. A person cannot even be a Muslim if they reject the prophethood of Jesus (pbuh). Far from rejecting him, Islam honors him as one of the greatest and most beloved prophets to ever walk the earth.

The Quran speaks of his many miracles, such as healing the blind, bringing the dead back to life, and even his miraculous birth without a father from the pure and chaste Virgin Mary. And what is especially remarkable is that the Quran mentions Mary by name 34 times, while in the Bible she appears by name only 19 times. The Quran also protects Mary's dignity from the slanders of the Jews at the time and even names an entire chapter after her. So with so much in common, what separated these two religions? The answer lies in three specific beliefs that entered Christianity over time and completely transformed the identity of Jesus and his message.

The belief that Jesus is God, the belief that he is also the Son of God, and the belief that he sacrificed himself on the cross for the sins of all humanity. Today, we are not going to waste time on side issues. We will directly examine these core beliefs one by one. No bias, no blind faith. You will only use the texts of the Bible, history, and logic. After all, if logical thinking helps you succeed in every area of this worldly life, why would God ask you to turn it off when it comes to your eternal life? Let's begin our journey with a heated debate recorded in the Gospel of Mark. Listen closely. “One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating.

Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, ‘Of all the commandments, which is the most important?’ ‘The most important one,’ answered Jesus, ‘is this: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’” Did you notice something? When Jesus is asked, “What is the most important commandment?” His answer is not believing in the Trinity. On the contrary, it is believing in the Lord our God. meaning he's my God, he's your God, and he's the only God. In other words, I am not God. Isn't he clearly preaching the oneness of God here?

Then the conversation continues like this: “Well said, teacher. You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him.” But for centuries, in almost all churches, people were taught to believe in a paradox: the Trinity. “But there were issues that were not making sense.” “Like?” “Well, Jesus being God and his own son. That didn't make sense to me. And then he's also somehow the personality of the Holy Ghost. So, you know, the Trinity.” “I thought this is definitely wrong. First of all, because it was too complicated.” “The Trinity was just always like something that never added up to me. It didn't make any sense.” “Oh God, help me. God, save me,” right?

But I didn't really know who I was calling on. Do I call on Jesus? Do I call on God?” Don't you find this very strange? If a specific belief is the absolute foundation of an entire religion, you would expect its holy book to be filled with it, right? Look at the Quran for example. The belief that every person will be raised again on the Day of Judgment is a core pillar of Islam. And because it is foundational, hundreds of verses speak about the hereafter. So with that in mind, how many times do you think the word Trinity appears in the entire Bible? Zero. Not even once. Jesus never explains it anywhere in the text. This leaves us with a critical question.

“If the belief in the Trinity is really the only way to salvation, why is there no mention of it anywhere in Scripture?” On the contrary, there are many passages that point in the exact opposite direction. For example, in the Gospel of Luke, Jesus explicitly denies being God. “A certain ruler asked him, ‘Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ ‘Why do you call me good?’ Jesus answered. ‘No one is good except God alone.’” So here Jesus clearly says that he is distinct from God and that God alone is truly good.

And in the book of Isaiah, we see this verse: “The Lord Almighty says, ‘I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.’” In other words, there was no God before him and there will never be another God beside him.

And in another chapter of the same book, God says, “I am the Lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God.” And at the beginning of Exodus 20, in the famous Ten Commandments, God says, “You shall have no other gods before me.” “I mean, we have to carry, that teaches us that the devil, Shaytan, Iblis, carried Jesus Christ across the desert for 40 days and 40 nights, and then said, he said to Jesus Christ, which this is what I mean by reading the Bible, right? He said, “Denounce your faith to your God.” This is to Jesus, yeah? “Denounce your faith to your God and give your allegiance to me.” Does that make him God or the prophet of God? You see what I'm trying to say to you?

There are so many things in the Bible that tells you Jesus was not God.” If Jesus is God, then he must have absolute divine knowledge from the very beginning, right? But look at what happens in the Gospel of Mark 13:32. When Jesus is asked when the final hour will come, he gives this exact answer. “But about that day or hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Look at what is described here. A clear hierarchy of knowledge is presented. First the angels, then the Son, and at the very top, the Father. If Jesus is co-equal with God, how can there be something that he's completely unaware of? A God with limited knowledge is logically impossible.

As you can see, Jesus is not claiming to be part of eternity here. Instead, he's openly admitting his limitations as a created being. “And the only Trinitarian verse in the Bible, because there was one, is fake. It was added in later. And we know this. It's 1 John 5:7. If you look in your modern Bibles, most modern Bibles have now taken it out. But this says, “There are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Spirit,” meaning the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. But this is a made-up verse that everyone now, apart from fundamentalists, agrees was added to the Bible.

If you remove that Trinity verse, which all scholars do, there is nothing in the Bible that speaks about the Trinity.” Picture a dark, quiet night in the garden of Gethsemane. A man is completely alone, overwhelmed with sorrow, falling flat on his face to the ground. In other words, prostrating. He's weeping, begging and crying out. Every Christian knows this deeply emotional scene of Jesus praying before his arrest. But if you step back and look at the scene as a whole, questions begin to emerge. “If Jesus was God, why would he worship another being? If he is the creator of the universe, who exactly is he crying out to? Is he begging and worshipping himself?

How can he pray and plead to himself?” Or are we actually looking at a much simpler truth? It is obvious that this is a prophet who is completely human doing what every prophet did before him, submitting his will to the one true God. And we see the same thing again and again in multiple passages from Luke to Matthew and Hebrews. “If Jesus is who we're supposed to be praying to, who did he pray to? They were told as Catholics that there was a thief next to Prophet Isa (as), “Come to the kingdom and be forgiven,” and he forgives him. But at that time, while he's also on the cross, he says, “Why thou has forsaken me?” But who's thou? Who is he talking to?

Why is he pondering, like, they always have him looking up into the sky, trying to talk to God. And my thing is, if he's supposed to be who we're praying to, why is he reaching out to somebody else in order to answer his prayers, in order to resolve certain situations in his life. So that didn't make any sense to me.” “I go up to the pastor. I say, “Listen, I got a question for you.” I said, “I have a problem. My faith is in shambles. I have a problem. I read the Bible. In the Bible, God says that Jesus says on the cross, ‘My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?’ I said, my problem is this: who is Jesus calling upon?” He puts his hand on my shoulder like this.

He says, “Son, you just have to have faith.” “And she would just tell me, “You just have to believe.” “And he said, “That's just faith. You just have to believe.” “Blasphemy. You shouldn't really be asking about these questions. This is, you know, this is your faith.” “And I know how things go because when you're in a Christian church, it's just, this is what we believe. Like, “How dare you question that?” And I experienced that firsthand when I would ask pastors of not just one church, but several.” “Islam allows us to question. Islam allows us to seek knowledge. Islam allows us to say, “I don't understand this.

Can you clarify this for me?” So I think that's one of the things that attracted me to Islam.” Think about the entire line of prophets. Noah was a prophet. Abraham was a prophet. Jacob, Moses, Aaron and thousands of others were all sent as messengers of God. Yet Jesus is God himself. Doesn't that feel fundamentally wrong? Why didn't a single prophet before him ever teach this? Doesn't that create a massive contradiction? There are only two possibilities.

Either every single prophet before Jesus completely misunderstood the true nature of their creator and failed to teach it correctly, or the belief in only one God was the original message and the concept of the Trinity was invented centuries later. You could easily give many more examples from the Bible, but these are enough for now. Even if we set the scriptures aside and look at this purely through logic, the conclusion is also very clear. Can someone with these characteristics really be God? A God who feels hunger and thirst. A God who must breathe every few seconds to stay alive. A God who has basic bodily needs like using the bathroom. A God who gets tired and has to sleep.

A God who is born, who is needy, who has to go through infancy and every stage of human development. No one can simply ignore all these logical contradictions and say, “You need to have blind faith.” Now let's look at the second core belief of Christianity. If you open a modern Bible, you will see that Jesus is called the Son of God. At a surface level, that can sound literal, almost biological, but as you continue reading you realize that this title is not unique to Jesus.

In the Gospel of Matthew during his famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus clearly says, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.” If the title Son of God automatically made someone divine, then anyone who works for peace on earth would be a God. Additionally, throughout the Bible, righteous and pious people who have a close relationship with God are repeatedly called children of God. And on the contrary, those who reject the truth are called children of the devil. In John chapter 8 verse 44, Jesus says these exact words to those who refuse to listen to him.

“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires.” This expression is actually used all over the Bible. We see titles like these being used for King David and even for the Israelites as a nation. In Psalm 2:7, King David says, “I will declare the decree: the Lord has said to me, ‘You are my son; today I have begotten you.’” In Jeremiah 31:9, the text describes God as saying, “Ephraim is my firstborn.” And in Exodus chapter 4 verse 22, we read, “Israel is my firstborn son.” So here this title is even used for the Israelites, an entire nation.

If being called the Son of God automatically makes someone divine, then the Bible would force you to accept an entire family tree of gods. In the Gospel of Luke, when the genealogy of Jesus is presented, the passage ends like this: “The son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.” Just think about that for a moment. Luke uses the very same title for Adam that Christians use exclusively for Jesus: Son of God. If this title literally means that someone is divine, then Luke would be telling us that multiple gods walked the earth, and Adam was simply one of them.

In fact, if you follow this logic of literal interpretation, you would have even more reason to call Adam divine than Jesus. Because while Jesus had no father, he still had a mother and a family lineage. Adam, on the other hand, had no parents at all. No father and no mother. So why did mainstream Christian theology decide that for Adam, the title was only a metaphor, but for Jesus, it was a literal fact. Honesty demands a choice. Either you accept that the term Son is a spiritual, metaphorical expression used for all righteous servants of God, or you admit that the church turned the metaphorical phrase into a literal fact just to fit a political narrative of the Roman Empire.

“The more you read this book, the more it is impossible to be a Christian. Impossible.” And that the more that I started to research, I was just like, “What? Like, what is and why have I never learned any of this?” And I felt really cheated. “I read the Bible from cover to cover. And as I read the Bible, I was amazed that everything in the Bible, the Quran was telling me. I'm like, “SubhanAllah,” like, “doesn't say Jesus is God. Doesn't say he's the son of God. Why we've been doing this all of these years? Like, why?” And I would go to my family, like, “But look here, why?” My grandmother, who was the most religious, I'm like, “Grandma, read this verse for me.” And she would read it.

She said, “No, no, no, no, no, no. You're trying to trick me. I don't want to talk about it.” Right? She would have a fear to talk with me. And I was like, “I'm not trying to trick you. I want to know. I want to know the truth. And if you have it, give it to me.” Right? But this doesn't make sense.“ “This child will be a god to us.” 2,000 years ago, Roman emperors were minting coins stamped with the words Divi Filius, which translates to Son of God. In the pagan world of Greece and Rome, the idea of gods having sons walking the earth was already deeply familiar. So when the pure monotheistic message of Jesus left Judea and entered this pagan world, it faced a massive roadblock.

Society did what it knew best. It took a prophet who called himself just a servant of God and forced him into the mold of a Roman demigod. In Greek mythology, the concept of a god in human form was completely normal. When one of their so-called gods had a child with a human, that child was seen as a divine being walking among men. For example, in a famous myth, Zeus comes to a mortal woman named Danaë. Then they have a son named Perseus, who is seen as a god in human form. Doesn't that sound familiar? It's very similar to what they say about Jesus, right? I mean, think about it. The Greeks had many gods like Poseidon, Demeter, and Asclepius, and they believed each one had special powers.

One of them ruled the seas, the other brought harvests, and another healed diseases. Now imagine introducing a new belief system into that exact culture, and the figure at the center of it showed the following miracles. He brought the dead back to life, he gave sight to the blind, and cured leprosy, which was incurable at the time. So, to a Hellenistic mind, the conclusion was simple. “His sight has returned. He's another god.” Their mythological background made it very easy for them to see Jesus through the same lens. Does that sound too extreme? Okay, let's not just rely on our own conclusions, and let's prove this directly from the pages of the Bible itself.

Not only did they treat Jesus this way, but according to the text, even his apostles were treated like gods. In Acts 14, right after Paul heals a crippled man, it says, “When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, ‘The gods have come down to us in human form!’ They began to call Barnabas Zeus, and Paul Hermes because he was the main speaker. The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought oxen and garlands to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifice to them.” Do you see what's happening here?

In such a society, even if Jesus himself had come and publicly declared that he was not God, people would still have found a way to see him as one. As a result, Christianity began in the Middle East, but as it spread into Europe, it became influenced by Greek mythology and gradually turned into a religion very different from what Jesus originally taught. So how did this massive transformation actually take place? Who was the architect behind this entirely new version of Christianity? To find the answer, we have to go back to the dark streets of first-century Jerusalem. He healed the man born blind Sabbath. And the whole crowd's sight. They follow him everywhere now. Hundreds, thousands.

At the center of the Jewish world stood the Sanhedrin, a supreme council of 70 elders and one high priest. To them, Jesus was an existential threat. And in the years that followed, this council would become a living nightmare for his followers. Every ruthless council needs an iron fist on the streets. So with full authority from the high priest, a man named Saul, later known as Paul, turned the streets into a hunting ground. “Every man who follows him, find him, bind him, bring him to me.” He entered homes, dragged out men and women, and had them thrown into prison for following this new faith. They were persecuted, punished and pressured to abandon what they believed.

One of them was even stoned to death. And whenever a vote was held to execute a believer, Paul never hesitated. He always voted for execution. He showed no mercy. You can read all of this for yourself in the Bible. His energy never ran out. But after a few years, Paul began to notice something. Shedding blood was not extinguishing the fire. On the contrary, it was fueling it. The followers of Jesus were growing, wave after wave. And Paul no longer wanted to remain on the losing side. He wanted to be where the power was, to become more than just an executioner. A leader, not just a follower. He wanted to become the architect of this growing movement that would soon be known as Christianity.

But there was a major problem. Paul had never seen Jesus even once in his entire life. And yet, he was about to make a claim so bold that it would push the original apostles aside and drew all eyes to himself. Paul claimed that on the road to Damascus, Jesus had suddenly appeared to him in a vision. And that this experience had transformed him from an enemy into a chosen messenger to the non-Jewish nations. Paul now wanted to spread this religion everywhere. but he also wanted to reshape it according to his own ideas. However, there were obstacles in his way. Religious rules like circumcision, acts of worship, restrictions, and prohibitions.

To make the religion more appealing to the masses, Paul simply removed all of them at once. But he couldn't simply tear down the rules without an explanation. He needed an emotional and theological story to justify it. So he introduced a radical new concept. “Jesus sacrificed himself and died on the cross for your sins.” He claimed that Jesus took the punishment for the sins of all humanity upon himself. The cross became Paul's ultimate tool to replace the original teachings of Jesus and rebuild the faith into something anyone could accept without giving up their old way of life. The only thing they needed for salvation was to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

The Romans were not familiar with the idea of the one unseen God. But as we said, they were deeply familiar with stories of gods who took on human form. So Paul gave them exactly the kind of belief they were ready to accept: the concept of a son of God. His plan worked so well that today, in the book we call the New Testament, Paul's voice is heard just as loudly as the voice of Jesus himself. And by the time it was written down, Paul's ideas had already spread throughout the region. And since none of the writers of the four gospels had ever met Jesus in person, the texts were shaped under Paul's heavy influence.

And the shocking truth about how these books were actually written is the topic of another video in this series. In short, Paul taught millions of people to worship not the one true God but the messenger who had pointed to God. So while all of this was happening, what were the original apostles of Jesus doing? Back in Jerusalem, the original followers of Jesus, led by Peter and James, were fiercely opposing Paul. The New Testament itself records these bitter conflicts. Paul knew that the apostles had the ultimate legitimacy because they were seen as the true representatives of Jesus. So he decided to undermine their authority.

In Galatians chapter 2 verse 6, he dismisses the very man chosen by Jesus. “As for those who were held in high esteem, whatever they were makes no difference to me. God does not show favoritism.” In Galatians chapter 2 verses 11 to 13, Paul goes even further and accuses Peter and the others of hypocrisy. And when they insisted on the sacred commandment of circumcision, Paul showed his true colors. In Galatians chapter 5 verse 12, he hurls a shocking insult. “As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!” Within the very same scriptures, two opposite teachings stand side by side.

Paul's letters teach that salvation comes through faith alone, as he writes in Romans 3:28: “For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.” But on the other side, James stands directly against Paul's teaching. He says this in James 2:26: “As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” And in James 2:20, he challenges that faith-only mindset head-on: “You foolish person! Do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?” Imagine the absurdity of the situation. On one side, you have the original apostles who actually walked with Jesus, lived alongside him and heard his own words.

And on the other, you have Paul, a man who never met Jesus yet based his entire authority on a personal vision. Imagine being a Christian who opens the Bible just to read the word of God. You would find yourself caught in the crossfire between two conflicting teachings. Left alone with this confusion and wondering, “Whose words can I actually trust?” But the Quran is nothing like this. In its verses, you hear only the word of God. So where did Jesus, peace be upon him, stand on this conflict? Did he leave a warning about those who would preach a faith without laws? Let's go directly to Matthew chapter 7. In fact, long before Paul even entered the scene, Jesus gave a powerful warning.

When he describes what he will say on the Day of Judgment to those who come to him hoping that he will speak to God on their behalf, he says, “On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’” Workers of lawlessness. This single phrase says it all. This is where the entire picture becomes clear. But unfortunately, history is written by those who win political wars.

And everything changed when the Roman Empire eventually chose to adopt Paul's pagan-friendly version of Christianity as their official religion. So what used to happen in the Roman Empire was now, there are two groups of Christians: Trinitarian Christians, and then you have monotheistic Christians or what you can call as the Unitarian Christians, right? You have Trinitarians and the Unitarians. There used to be a fight and the friction between them. So Constantine, who is the emperor of Rome, so he said, “You know what, there should be peace, there should be harmony. Let's bring them together.” So he brought all the Christian bishops together.

He had a whole council called as the Council of Nicaea. In there, they decided that Jesus is equal with the Father. Although there were many Unitarian Christians who believed that there is only one God and that Jesus was sent as a prophet, they were declared heretics and excommunicated by the church. Finally, let's look at the third core belief of Christianity and ask one critical question. Does Paul's teaching about the crucifixion really make any sense? Mainstream Christianity claims that a grand atonement was required for all the sins of humanity, from the beginning of time until the day of judgment. They claim that Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross to pay for all of those sins.

Now let's look at the obvious contradictions in this idea. First of all, if Jesus was God, how could he die? A God who can die is not all powerful. And a being that lacks power simply cannot be God. Now suppose someone still says Jesus was God and that he paid the ultimate price for our sins. The question is, who did he actually pay that price to? If he paid it to himself, it makes no sense at all, and if he paid it to some higher law of justice, then that law would be more powerful than God, forcing him to obey it. Or here's another contradiction. In real life, if someone wronged you, would you kill your own innocent child just so you could forgive that person? Of course not.

But the church wants people to believe that God sacrificed his own son to forgive humanity. Wouldn't that go against every sense of justice? If even we as human beings would never act in such an unjust way, how could a perfectly just God do so? And why would an all-merciful God who is not bound by any system need a sacrifice simply to forgive? This doctrine also completely destroys the concept of personal responsibility. In any courtroom, the criminal receives the punishment. If a murderer is sentenced to death and his friend says, “Don't execute him, execute me instead.” Would any judge accept this? Absolutely not. Or consider another situation.

If I'm oppressed and someone violates my rights, I naturally demand justice, don't I? But then someone comes and says, “No, that's not how it works. Jesus must die for this.” What? Why? No, I love Jesus. I don't want him to die for someone else's crime. Besides, even if he dies, how does that give me back my rights? According to Islam, however, the solution is entirely different. On the Day of Judgment, every individual will be questioned for their own sins, and everyone will receive punishment or reward according to the absolute divine justice. You can also check out our AI-visualized Day of Judgment series to see the full details of the afterlife in Islam.

“So logically, if a person dies, believing in that person's death, how is that salvation to some other person? According to Islam, according to logic, what Islam says is that what you do is what you bear. In every court system in the world, they apply the Islam's concept of self-accountability. What you do, if a criminal does something, he's the one to be punished, not somebody else.” Jesus said the way for salvation, the way to go to paradise: having the right belief and doing good deeds, which is in Matthew chapter 19, verse number 16 and onwards. So from any which way that we look at it, even from the Old Testament, by the way, right?

Even in the Old Testament, it says, whatever that you do is what you bear in the book of Ezekiel. So Old Testament says that, Jesus said that, the Quran says that, logic says that, every court system says, the person who has done wrong should be punished, the person who have done right, he's the one should be rewarded. We can find many other contradictions and irrational ideas like these. But I think these are more than enough to show how baseless this belief is. It was simply a theological tool Paul used to justify ignoring God's law. As Muslims, we know from the Quran that the crucifixion never actually happened. Jesus, peace be upon him, was neither killed nor crucified.

Allah saved him from his enemies and raised him up to the heavens. And according to the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), Jesus will return to earth near the end times to complete his mission. “A person came to Jesus and asked him the question, “Good Master, what should I do that I may go to paradise?” Jesus said, “If you want to have eternal life, if you want to go to paradise, obey the commandments.” See, Jesus would have said that, “You know what, just wait a few days, a few weeks, a few months. I'm going to die. They will put me on the cross. Believe that I died, then I would be resurrected. And that's the way to paradise.” He never said that. That theology, they build it later on.

“What he preaches is God. He preaches Tawhid.” “This is easy. I can pray to God. Only my relationship is God. I don't need to have two more. And that's really what did it for me.” “There was a time I tried to accept the Trinity and to pray to Jesus, but it didn't feel right at all. “I wasn't a Trinitarian, but in mainstream Christianity, you have to believe that God is three persons, even though he's just one. You didn't have this in Islam. It was just pure Tawhid. It was just pure monotheism.” “That the relationship of a Christian always needs somebody. There's somebody that stands between the worshiper and God: the priest, the minister. Some people pray to the Virgin Mary.

A Muslim, when they're in namaz or prayer, it's just a relationship between them and their Creator, and no one is closer to that situation except when they're in the prostration, when their face is on the ground and they're the lowest point, they're the closest to God.” Many people who were sincere followers of Christianity have accepted Islam after seeing proofs like these and started living a life that Jesus would truly be pleased with. “Some people ask me, “Why do you left the team of Jesus?” That's really a question. And I told them, “Well, I didn't left the team of Jesus. Jesus is in our team as well.” “Actually, I had went to work in Saudi Arabia.

I was going there to thinking I was going to teach them about Christianity. Did not happen at all. They were teaching me more about my Christianity, about my Savior, Jesus Christ, than I knew. And that blew me away, really, literally. 3I follow Jesus now the right way. I didn't leave Jesus. I found him. I left Paul. I left Paul and started to follow Jesus. Because the word Christian means to be Christ-like. Christ was a worshiper of the one true God. That's what I am now. I never felt that I left Christianity. I never made the choice to leave Christianity. It was a choice to be a better Christian through these different practices and beliefs.

And then I found that really the true Christian, the true Christ follower is a Muslim, you know, realizing that Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, he was a Muslim and he called to Islam. Since Jesus submitted his will to the one true God, why wouldn't you do the same? If you agree with this but still cannot imagine yourself being associated with the word Islam, let me tell you what it actually means. Submission. Look at Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane falling on his face and crying out to his Creator in complete submission. That is Islam. That is what it truly means to submit. This is the pure unbroken chain of all the prophets.

Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (pbuh), peace and blessings be upon them all, submitted themselves to the Almighty in the same exact way. Embrace their pure legacy. Come home, submit your heart to Allah and find the true peace your soul has been longing for. Today, many Christians look back at the Jewish leaders of that time and ask, “How could you be so blind? How could you reject Jesus?” But what if history just repeated itself? What if about six centuries later another prophet appeared with the same clear signs of prophethood, but this time the followers of Jesus became the ones who turned their backs.

Isn't the rejection of Jesus by the Jews strikingly similar to the rejection of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) by the Christians? The Quran calls out to you with a sincere invitation to eternal happiness: “Come to a common word between us and you, that we will not worship except Allah and not associate anything with him, and not take one another as lords instead of Allah.” This is a call to freedom, freedom from human dogmas. You don't need a church standing between you and God. You don't need a priest, icons or saints. You don't need a completely irrational concept like the Trinity and you don't need to put your logic aside to believe in an unjust sacrifice. This is not a call to betray Jesus.

This is a call to rescue his legacy from a cross built by human dogmas. And with that, we have come to the end of our first episode. But our journey is only beginning. Did you know that none of the gospels were written by eyewitnesses? Or that they were not even written by the people whose names they carry? We need a narrative that gives these writings divine authority. In the next episode, you will expose the reality behind the Gospels that most Christians have never even heard of. Textual differences, endless contradictions, altered verses, and so much more. Get ready to uncover truths that church historians know but choose to remain silent about. See you in Episode 2.