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144 Prophet Jesus (pbuh): A Prophet, Not A Son, of God

Synoptic traditions are emphatic in presenting Jesus as the Jewish
Messiah, descendent of David, and eschatological messenger of the
end of the world… John removes the unpleasantness of Jewish ge-
nealogy as well as all references to Palestinian and Davidic de-
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Others of his interpretations are as follows:
In John we find the culmination of Greek philosophy that has created the
Jesus that we are the most familiar with today. A fully-formed Hellenized
Jesus has emerged to become an equal with God. The Gospel of John (ca.
120 CE) is complex and mystical. Its purpose is to propagandize the
message that Jesus is God Himself. (Surely God is beyond that!)
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Those passages in the Synoptic Gospels that ascribe divine status to
Prophet Jesus (pbuh) are both very few in number and questionable.
However, as Still points out, this erroneous belief prevails throughout
John. In the same paper, he says the following about how this Gospel
sought to deify Prophet Jesus (pbuh):

Notably, the birth narrative of Jesus is missing, we are told in the
prologue only that "in the beginning" Jesus coexisted with God and
that he is "full of grace and truth." John feels that to inform us of the
particularly human trait of birth, even if virginal …, would not be
fitting of a God who is the Word. Human characteristics that Mark
informs us of… are conspicuously absent from John… By the time
John was first written at the end of the first century, the tales of Jesus grew
to such an extent that Jesus was now fully transformed into a Hellenized

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god. [Surely God is beyond that!]