Why Jesus and Muhammad Are Not Fighting
from Echoes for Angela Hosted by Ryan MacLean
Season 1, Episode 57 Can Jesus and Muhammad disagree because we’re reading them through the wrong words? In this episode of Echoes for Angela, Dad takes one of his most challenging research papers and translates it into plain English. Together, we explore a simple but powerful question: before we say two people contradict each other, are they even using the same words in the same way? We’ll look at why Father doesn’t necessarily mean biological begetting, why Son isn’t automatically the same as Arabic walad, what “begotten, not made” was written to protect, whether the Qur’an’s warning against saying “three” is really addressing the Nicene Trinity, and why the crucifixion debate may involve questions of agency, witness, and certainty rather than a simple yes-or-no disagreement. This isn’t about pretending Christianity and Islam are the same. It’s about slowing down, defining our words, and learning to recognize the difference between a real contradiction and a misunderstanding created by translation. If Angela can follow it, maybe the rest of us can too. Based on the research paper Jesus and Muhammad Without Category Error: A Formal Semantic Reconciliation of Father, Son, Divinity, Trinity, and Crucifixion.
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