Awani
02-23-2020, 01:29 AM
One of the doctrines of a certain sect of Gnostics was adopted by Mohammed. They taught that Jesus was a mere man, and that the Son of God descended upon him at the baptism, and abandoned him at the time of the Passion. In support of this view they appealed to the text: ‘My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?’ – a text which, it must be confessed, Christians have always found difficult.
The Gnostics considered it unworthy of the Son of God to be born, to be an infant, and, above all, to die on the cross; they said that these things had befallen the man Jesus, but not the divine Son of God. Mohammed, who recognized Jesus as a prophet, though not as divine, had a strong class feeling that prophets ought not to come to a bad end. He therefore adopted the view of the Docetics (a Gnostic sect), according to which it was a mere phantom that hung upon the cross, upon which, impotently and ignorantly, Jews and Romans wreaked their ineffectual vengeance.
In this way, something of Gnosticism passed over into the orthodox doctrine of Islam. - from Bertrand Russell History of Western Philosophy
(been posting some stuff from this tome since I have been reading it to completion these past few weeks)
Some contrary views on Wikipedia:
Some scholars accept that Islam was influenced by Manichaeism (Docetism) in this view. However the general consensus is that Manichaeism was not prevelent in Mecca in the 6th- & 7th centuries, when Islam developed. - source (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docetism#Islam_and_docetism)
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The Gnostics considered it unworthy of the Son of God to be born, to be an infant, and, above all, to die on the cross; they said that these things had befallen the man Jesus, but not the divine Son of God. Mohammed, who recognized Jesus as a prophet, though not as divine, had a strong class feeling that prophets ought not to come to a bad end. He therefore adopted the view of the Docetics (a Gnostic sect), according to which it was a mere phantom that hung upon the cross, upon which, impotently and ignorantly, Jews and Romans wreaked their ineffectual vengeance.
In this way, something of Gnosticism passed over into the orthodox doctrine of Islam. - from Bertrand Russell History of Western Philosophy
(been posting some stuff from this tome since I have been reading it to completion these past few weeks)
Some contrary views on Wikipedia:
Some scholars accept that Islam was influenced by Manichaeism (Docetism) in this view. However the general consensus is that Manichaeism was not prevelent in Mecca in the 6th- & 7th centuries, when Islam developed. - source (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docetism#Islam_and_docetism)
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