Jesus was 100% Jewish circa year zero. Observed Torah, went to and taught at synagogues, celebrated Hannukkah, ate a kosher diet, etc. But Christians don’t follow Jesus’s own religious practices.
Jesus was 100% Jewish circa year zero. Observed Torah, went to and taught at synagogues, celebrated Hannukkah, ate a kosher diet, etc. But Christians don’t follow Jesus’s own religious practices.
You can’t be Muslim and think anything or anyone else is Divine in any way like Him, be it a son or an accompanying “god”. The Oneness of God is a core, undeniable part of Islam (any branch, any sect, etc., because it’s based on a singular book that’s accessible to all, the Qur’an, and that’s like THE main tenet of it). But yes, prophet Isa, big J, is of course a big part of the history of the religion! I don’t mean to be mean to Christians but listen, even in the Bible Jesus is shown praying (why would “God” pray?!), asking for intercession, and even denying being called ‘good’ because “only the Father is good” (because all of these hard categories belong only to God, He’s the superlative of all the good traits, our unreachable goal, since there’s “good and bad” in all of us, a bit of vice not just virtue). Jesus was a man who believed in God and asked Him for help and his prayer mentions it strongly!
But yeah, Jesus is/should be seen as big for every Muslim regardless of whether you know his message or not simply because, even if it didn’t take complete root and the message was shared to the world already changed and corrupted by the Romans, it did perhaps prepare the world, through Western colonization, for virtue and monotheism (if you believe you’ll meet the Creator and be judged for your decisions in life you kind of have a bigger motivation to act right! lol), and that’s a crazy way to get there but hey, the Lord works in mysterious ways. And then people can adopt Islam, which basically takes any man, saints, St. Peter and the keys, etc, all of that nonsense out of the equation entirely and tells you: "your life is and the universe are gifts from your Creator that you will never be able to repay (of course, who here can make a universe?!), enjoy them but walk the straight path, and you will meet Him again on the Day of Judgment and if you were even slightly decent (at the very least very repentant while you’re alive still), you get an even better second, eternal life (why not? He already made a universe once at least!).