ALLAH vs JESUS CHRIST

I too have been troubled by the erection of statues and intermediaries between God and man to pray to. Muhammad, having studied Christianity from the monks of the newly formed Catholic Church, probably was disturbed by the Catholics praying not to God the Father or Jesus Christ but prayed first to Mary to get to Christ and Christ to get to the Father. True Christians don't pray to anyone but God the Father. Christ gave people an example of how we should pray. It is commonly called the Lord's Prayer. Christ instructed the people to pray, "Our Father which art in heaven...." True Christians pray only to God the Father or in the Muslim Tradition, Allah.

Over the centuries, when all of Christendom believed that the need for revelation from God had ended, man introduced diverse false doctrines into the theology known as Christianity. Christians and Muslims alike, are to pray to the Father. However, Christians close their prayer to God the Father in remembrance of Jesus Christ for his sacrifice, as the Son of God like you, me and everybody else are sons and daughters of God and for laying down His life for mankind to take upon Himself the sins of the world.

Although this is not a perfect or true analogy, it might help people relate to the relationship between God the Father or Allah, Jesus Christ and the rest of mankind, if one thinks in terms of a Corporate structure and the CEO of a multinational corporate conglomerate in our day and age. While a CEO is not the ultimate nor final authority since he answers to the stockholders of the corporation, for all intents and purposes, this analogy is the closest structure, I, in my limited understanding, can personally relate to.

For our analogy, think in terms of a single-tiered Company or Corporation ABC. In any company, you have leadership, a hierarchy, a chain of command or line of authority. That hierarchy consists usually of a President and one or more Vice Presidents to help or assist the President and a Secretary/Treasurer. In a single-tiered corporation, although the President is responsible to the stockholders for financial purposes, he or she is the ultimate authority in the chain of command for the employees.

In a multi-tiered Corporation XYZ, the President of Company ABC answers not to the stockholders directly but to a higher President, CEO (Chief Executive Office) or Chairman of the Board of Corporation XYZ. Even the President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Corporation XYZ holding the Company ABC and possibly even other corporations answers to the stockholders of that entity but for all practical purposes and ease of this analogy, the CEO, Chairman of the Board is the ultimate authority, the final cog in the chain of command. He may have a couple Vice Presidents or as is commonplace, many Vice Presidents and several Executive Vice Presidents to assist him. Everybody has his or her own responsibility and authority but each acts for and in behalf of the President, CEO (Chief Executive Office) or Chairman of the Board.

Think in terms of each a single-tiered company as the earth and other worlds. "Worlds without number hath He created." As far as the employees of company ABC (the inhabitants of Earth) are concerned, they are ultimately responsible to the President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Corporation XYZ (God the Father) however, they are directly responsible to the President of Company ABC (Jesus Christ). In the case of the President of Company ABC, he has ultimate hire/fire authority over the employees of Company ABC granted to him/her by the President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Corporation XYZ.

Jesus Christ, Jehovah, the Great I AM, was made God (President) over the Earth (Company ABC) and while God the Father, Allah, (President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Corporation XYZ) is the ultimate authority, Jesus Christ was given the responsibility for the affairs of man on earth.

Another way of looking at this, while an older brother is given baby sitting responsibilities over his younger brothers and sisters, the father and mother still retains the ultimate authority.

Although God has said, "Your ways are not my ways, neither my thoughts your thoughts," I feel this analogy will help us all relate to God and the government of heaven.

I hope this helps! I hope too, this helps our Muslim brothers and sisters understand the nature and our relationship to God. I welcome your feedback.
 
 

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