Page 145 - Prophet Jesus (Pbuh): A Prophet Not A Son, Of God

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Christology, Maurice Casey offers the following interpretations:
In John, Jesus uses terms of this kind [the son of God] no less than 23
times, in public debate as well as in private teaching. Mark however
attributes such a term to Jesus no more than once … If the historical
Jesus had used this key term extensively as John says he did, the
faithful Christians who transmitted the synoptic tradition would
have transmitted it extensively… If "the Son" had been the main term
which the historical Jesus used to express his divinity, the earliest apostles
were bound to have used it too, and it would have been transmitted to Luke
who would not have had reason to leave it out. 42
Casey examines why some of the expressions in John, and which
form the basis of trinitarian belief, are not found in the Synoptic Gospels.

He concludes that if the claim that Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is the son of God,
and the belief in the trinity based on that, actually represents the basis of
true Christianity, then there should be far more evidence of this in
Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) words and message. Yet it is impossible to find the
bases of trinitarian belief in the Synoptic Gospels. On the contrary, the
term the son of Man is used so often in both John and the Synoptic
Gospels that it seems that Prophet Jesus (pbuh) may well have employed
it himself. (God knows best.) Biblical scholars who state that the son of

God was never used by Prophet Jesus (pbuh) think the exact opposite
about the son of Man.
Another noteworthy aspect of the Gospel of John is its relationship
to Greek philosophy. Biblical scholar James Still says this in his important
paper "The Gospel of John and the Hellenization of Jesus":
John was written for the Greek Christian of the beginning of the sec-
ond century. These recent converts were more educated, wealthy,
and despised the Diaspora Jews who resided in their cities and who
enjoyed the respect of Rome. John removes the offensive references to
Jesus as a Jewish Messiah that are particular to the earlier gospels ... In so
doing, John creates a simulacrum that is barely human. The earlier