1:3 the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!’”
Muslims love to reference Mark 13:32 as a clear indication that Jesus never claimed to be God. Reading the verse out of context and without a wider understanding of the incarnation, does seem at first reading to support the Muslim view. However, on further study, we see there is no contradiction between Jesus claiming to be God and claiming not to know the hour of his return.
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Although being one of the earliest parts of the New Testament to be written, Mark’s Gospel shows us clearly that Jesus is God. This counters the claim that John’s Gospel’s view of Jesus was a later development by Christians. According to Mark, Jesus is none other than the LORD himself.
Christians and Muslims view their Scriptures differently. While Muslims claim the Quran is preserved on tablets in heaven, for Christians our unchanged Word is a person, the Lord Jesus who is the same, yesterday, today and forever.
