The only right way

The Qur'an denies the death of Jesus on the cross, stating, "They did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, though it was made to appear like that to them," and Jesus was taken up to heaven, and another was killed in His place. This contradiction between the Bible and the Qur'an must not be emphasized. The point is intention: people wanted to do it and did it, even if it seemed so. Jesus had the Holy Spirit in Him and no wonder He was taken up to heaven. The point doesn't change at all.

All this also shows that the Qur'an does not refute the Bible, but in the essence of the most important point, delivers the same truth.

In the book of ZECHARIAH from the Bible, Jesus is the greatest High Priest and will build His temple with the congregation, that is, the believing people, the people of God, who will follow Him.

The Gospel says, "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him (resurrect) those who sleep in Jesus (by believing in Him)."

Now the Qur'an, in which God Himself says: "O Jesus! I will take you and raise you up to Myself. I will deliver you from those who disbelieve, and elevate your followers above the disbelievers until the Day of Judgment." Where is the contradiction?

Since the Gospel speaks of the atonement for the sins of all who believe in Jesus, accept His teachings, and obey His commandments, then any rational person who believes in God will believe in Jesus.

The Bible says, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God," which is the same as "sons by the Spirit" and "servants of the Lord," and thus co-heirs with Christ (will also receive the resurrection), "If indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together."

What does it mean to "suffer with Him"?

Christ sacrificed Himself for the sins of mankind. We are all sinners, and we sin every day. So we all need forgiveness, we need Christ (to accept Him, to believe in Him) to be forgiven. This doesn't mean that we should just believe, but we should obey His commandments, which is difficult in real life, but this is how we will be compassionate with Jesus. These commandments are common to all Abrahamic religions.

Christians are baptized in the name of God the Father (the Creator), the Son (the Messenger in the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit as a sign of belonging to the people of God, a believing people. Baptism is a sign of faith that Jesus Christ consciously went to the crucifixion as a sacrifice to the Lord God for the forgiveness of sins for all who sincerely repent and believe in this great sacrifice.

The cross in Christianity is the symbol of the baptized Christian believer. It is the symbol of those who have worthily accepted their trial in earthly life and bear their cross in compassion with Jesus, who have chosen to live according to God's Word, according His commandments. The cross means, "I acknowledge the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to God for our sins."

Another stumbling block might be mentioned. The Torah in the Bible says that if someone hurts the righteous, "your eye shall not pity: life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." But in the Gospel (the New Testament of the Bible), Jesus calls us to turn the right cheek when we are struck on the left, and to love one another, even to love our enemies, and to pray for them, thereby increasing our reward from the Lord ("Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but give place to wrath; for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine; I will repay,' says the Lord"). But no word says that returning evil is a sin. However, the Qur'an says that it is good to retaliate against evil, to defend yourself against it, but if you bear it or forgive it, it will be better for you. The Holy Qur'an confirms and does not refute the above mentioned in the Bible: "A life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth — and for wounds equal retaliation. But whoever waives it charitably, it will be atonement for them."

This is the common level in seemingly irreconcilable laws.

In the same way, all the laws of the Qur'an and the Bible have common meanings, and most of them are essentially identical.

A law from the Bible covers another from the Qur'an and vice versa and does not exclude one from the other. It may be ranked higher or lower than another law, but it is not rejected, it is accepted just the same, and for us human beings, what is the difference — we are obligated to fulfill all the laws written in the Scriptures.

Every monotheistic religion based on the belief in one God, the Creator of all things, inevitably comes to the same laws and moral and ethical statutes.