CONGRUITIES AND INCONGRUITIES BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN

SUMMARY According to the Old Testament there is but one God. Those who spend efforts in doing good deeds earn the attribute of 'Son of God'. The same holds true in the Psalms. In the New Testament, the letters of Paul and in the Gospel of St. John, Jesus is deified. Although in the synoptic gospels Jesus is referred as the Son of God, this attribute denotes merely his nearness to God. In the Council of Nicaea, which met about three hundred years after Jesus departure from this world, despite the opposition of the priest Arius and his partisans and the contents of the synoptic gospels, Jesus was declared to be the Son of God. The Qur'an categorically rejected the proposition and stressed that there is only one God, the only unique Being without any precedent. THE HOLY SPIRIT- GABRIEL