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5th March 2008
Jesus Christ, Son of God Says Rev Nile
The Rev Hon Fred Nile MLC, Leader of the Christian Democratic Party, gave the following address on the Nature of Jesus Christ before State Parliament yesterday:
“I wish to speak on the subject of Jesus Christ the Son of God.
Jesus Christ is the most important person in the history of the world and he divides that history between Before Christ and After Christ. Many questions are asked during our lives: "Will you marry me?" "Will you employ me?" "Will you buy my house?" The most important question was asked by Jesus Christ himself, not by Alexander the Great or Napoleon or Winston Churchill. Jesus Christ was speaking with his disciples, gradually teaching them and revealing to them who he really was. On this occasion in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 16, verses 13 to 17, he said to the disciples, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" The disciples replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." This was a most important question by the most important person. Then he said, "Who do you say I am?" The apostle Peter, the fisherman, replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus Christ said to him that that truth had been revealed to him by God "my Father in Heaven".
If we asked the question today "Who is Jesus Christ?" we would get many different answers. People obsessed with their own lives, with wealth, gambling, sex or drugs are too busy to even listen to the question, let alone answer it. If one asked atheists, they would say, "There is no God, so there can be no Son of God." The agnostic would shrug his shoulders and say, "I don't know." If we asked the modernist he would reply along these lines: "Well, he was a good man, a moral example." But if one asks a Muslim today who Jesus Christ is, he has an answer because the Muslim religion came 700 years after Jesus Christ. It has a great deal to say about Jesus Christ. A Muslim would say, "Jesus is not the Son of God; he is only a prophet of Islam." That Muslim is quoting the Koran, which to him is a holy book revealed to Mohammed by the angel Gabriel.
What does the Koran say? Chapter 9, verse 30 says:
The Christians say the Messiah Jesus is the Son of God. That is the utterance of their mouths, conforming with the unbelievers before them. Allah assail them! How they are perverted!
Chapter 10, verse 68 says:
Allah has no son.
Allah, of course, is the Arabic word for God. Chapter 16, verse 50 says:
Allah says take not to you two Gods. He is only one God.
That is rejecting the Christian belief of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. God reveals himself in those three ways.
The Koran in chapter 17, verse 110 says:
Praise belongs to Allah, who has not taken to him a son.
Is this an important question today? It is, because 138 Islamic scholars, Muslim leaders, issued a statement late last year called "A Common Word". They claimed there were great similarities between the Christian faith and the Muslim faith. But their statement begins with the words, "Allah (God) has no partner." That is their way of saying that God has no son. We are reminded in the Bible: "Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?" and "Those who believe in the Son of God know that they have eternal life."
This is a very important question. I believe the majority of Australians would say, yes, Jesus is the Son of God. It is a very important for us to consider this today in our society.”