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According to Mark 13/32, Jesus is also reported to have denied having knowledge of the
final hour of this world, saying, "But of that day and hour no one knows, neither
the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
In Luke 13/33-34, Jesus refers to himself as a prophet, "Nevertheless I must journey
today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should
perish outside of Jerusalem. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the
prophets and stones those who are sent to her!"
These and many other statements of Jesus, as reported in the Bible, demonstrate that
he, in relation to God, was no more than a human being. He was not the Creator but a
creation, just like Adam. He prayed to God (Mark 1/35, Mark 14/35 and Luke 5/16), which
clearly indicates that he was a prophet and not God, for God does not pray to
anyone. Jesus used to praise God, as is clear from Matthew 11/25, "At that time Jesus
answered and said, 'I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth.'"

Thus, the doctrine of Christ's divinity is not supported by the words of Jesus as written in
the Gospels. Like the doctrine of Trinity, the doctrine of the incarnation was developed
after Jesus' departure. It was incorporated into Christianity from paganism.

In the mythology of religions that preceded Christianity, it can be seen how some heroes
were considered to be gods. Most of what was said about Krishna by the Hindus, Buddha
by the Buddhists, Mithra by the Persians, Osiris by the Ancient Egyptians, Bacchus by the
Greeks, Baal by the Babylonians, and Adonis by the Syrians was, surprisingly, said of
Jesus by the Christians. Islam, on the other hand, has freed its followers from such
superstitions by rejecting the doctrine of the incarnation and of God's embodiment in or
union with any of His creatures.
Islam emphatically states that neither Jesus nor any other human being could be God.
Islam also rejects the notion that God may be incarnated or could unite with any of His
creation. As the Qur'an (5/75) says, "Christ, the son of Mary, was no more than a
messenger; many were the messengers that passed away before him. His
mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their [daily] food. See how
Allah makes His signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded
away from the truth!" The idea is that anyone who eats cannot be God, be it Jesus,
Muhammad or any other prophet or messenger, for that matter.[4]
In fact, many nations rejected the prophets God sent to them because they thought that
it would not befit a messenger sent from God to be a human being who "eats food" just
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