Naaji (and indeed all others),
A few more questions and comments for you then based on your last post
1. Why did Allah not say this to Muhammed? You prize Muhummed as the Prophet of Allah, and yet according to your own statement, Muhummed is dead and buried in Medina, and yet Jesus never died and is now ascended into heaven and with God. If Jesus was/is not the pre-emininent one why do you say "and Muhammed is his prophet" when it would appear what will cause judgement on the day of judgement, is not what they believe about Mohammed, but what they believe about Jesus. This is why I think he is the pre-eminent prophet even in Islam.
2. Since Muhummad is dead, and since what we have of his life is only eyewitness accounts which do differ and a revelation which has changed over the centuries, why should we not see that the Jesus who according to Islam, let alone christianity, has never died, is someone we must all.. Muslim and Christian look at with eyes that are wide open
Islam in the Qu'ran holds Jesus up and agrees with so much that the Bible says about the life of Jesus. If we are looking for supposedly historical sources to agree with what the New Testament authors said about him. ... then I can do that in the Qu'ran. I have done so in other posts, and I can do it again. Naaji, you have agreed that Jesus himself and what we believe of him, will be the basis of our judgement on the day of Judgement. Christian and Muslim are definitely totally in agreement on this point.
3. Yes, the injeel to you might only be the life and teachings of Jesus, but it wasn't to Muhammed. The revelation calls Christians 'the people of the book".. ie is the written gospel as it existed at the time of the revelation. Muhummed referred to the written gospels that the "people of the book" had in their possession, yet Muslims will for some reason not see, that even their prophet accepted the existance of the written injeel as testimony to the life and ministry of Jesus. Look sometime at the statements of these Early Muslim Scholars and their attitudes to the written word of the injeel
Ali Tabari ... He freely taught that the first book which came into existance was the Tawraat of the Jews and that it was in their possession. He taught the same about the injeel which he likewise conceded was in the hands of the Christians. When speaking of their contents, he outlined their contents... both the New and the Old Testaments
Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali.... he was one of the most original thinkers the Muslim world has ever known and is generally regarded (so I am told) as Islam's greatest theologian. he about the Trinityand though he lived some 5 centuries after Muhummed, when other radical scholars were attacking the integrity of the Biblical text, he also freely accepted it's authenticity. He argues only that Christians misinterpreted the text.
3. Fakhruddin Razi... another great and well known theologian who lived a hundred years after al-Ghazzali. He was quite emphatic that the Bible text had not been changed and that the teaching and narratives of the Qu'ran were perfectly consistent with those of the Bible.
Yet, even if we allowed for that not to be case, we have a big difference in how we see Jesus. You see, both the Qu'ran and the Bible call Jesus the Word of God. Now, unless I am God, I can no more BE the Word of God, than I Carol, can be the Word of Naaji, (or Alpha, or whoever). For my words to be my words, they have to originate from me, or they are just someone reciting my words. Allah never said that Jesus was reciting His words in the same way that Muhummed recited them to give you the Qu'ran. Allah and God called Jesus "THE WORD OF GOD".
If Jesus was/is the Word of God and if both Muslim and Christian agree that He is, should we not then be willing to look at Him as THE WORD OF GOD. You see, in the Islamic tradition, you see the Qu'ran as the Holy word of God and find in it your way of living and believing. As Christians, we believe that Jesus IS the Word of God, which is what Muslims should be believing too. I don't need to look in any holy book to hear the Word of God. I "fix my eyes on Jesus the author and perfector of my faith".
If as we both believe, Jesus is the Word of God, he needed no written word to attest to who He is, or what He said.