Jesus & Christianity
Muslims honour Jesus as a Messenger of God and the Messiah. These pages explain the Islamic view of Jesus and compare it carefully with Christian doctrine.
Is Jesus God?
No. Islam teaches Jesus was a human prophet and messenger, chosen and empowered by God, not God incarnate. Muslims point to Jesus's own reported prayers to God, his human needs, and his explicit statements distinguishing himself from God in the Gospels as evidence that the claim of his divinity was a later theological development, not his own original teaching.
Jesus & ChristianityJesus in Islam
Muslims honor Jesus (Isa, peace be upon him) as one of the greatest prophets and messengers of God, born miraculously to the Virgin Mary, who performed miracles by God's permission and is titled the Messiah. Muslims do not believe Jesus is divine, was crucified in the way the New Testament describes, or is the son of God — but hold him in deep reverence and expect his return before the Day of Judgment.
Jesus & ChristianityWhat Does Islam Say About the Trinity?
Islam holds that the Trinity — God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three persons in one being — compromises the absolute, indivisible oneness of God that Islamic theology considers the single most important truth about God. Muslims also point to the doctrine's centuries-long formal development through church councils as evidence it was not Jesus's own original, explicit teaching.
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