I have a question about Islam regarding Jesus. how prophet if he claim be god?

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 First off I’m a Christian, tho I have several friends who follow the Islamic religion. We like to talk about religion and about Jesus divinity and his place within the bible and Quran, as we both believe his divinity or “lack of” is the major theological argument between who’s religion is right.

The question; how is Jesus a prophet

My friends say he is a prophet in Islam but Jesus claims to be god several times through out the bible, which would go against the Qurans teachings. That would make him blasphemous and unable to be a prophet, no?

My friends and myself are not big debaters so he is unsure on how to answer this, we are coming at this with genuine curiosity so any help would be wonderful!

Thanks in advance and God bless
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> but Jesus claims to be god several times through out the bible, which would go against the Qurans teachings. That would make him blasphemous and unable to be a prophet, no?

no, he does not. plenty of Christian scholars will tell you so.

even if we granted this, and that on every page of the bible it says "jesus said i am god i am a trinity worship me", we still have no reason to accept it. there is no provenance for any of these statements (and as said above, there are no such claims; as someone who was raised Christian, i will gladly work through any of them that you think are such claims).

> My friends say he is a prophet

the synoptic authors (whoever they were) unanimously agreed that the Messiah, Son of Mary, was a Prophet in their narrative description of him. where the sourced those narrations from, we do not know and cannot prove. we do not know the authors. we can show their discrepancies between each other, between archeological, geographical, and historical fact.

> the major theological argument between who’s religion is right.

the real question isn't about "who is right". it isn't a dispute between different personal camps.

there is an epistemic question for the reports attributed to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
there is an epistemic question for the reports attributed to the Messiah Son of Mary ﷺ
there is an epistemic question for the reports attributed to Moses ﷺ

take a step back and look at what the criterion are that are mutually established (between you and your friend) for validating, verifying, and accepting, such reports.
or note the absence/differences.

what is the basis for those criterion that judge those reports attributed to those delivering divine messages, those relaying revelation?
how did you reach "this way, this method," is how those reports should be judged and weighed ?

these matters are meant for each and every one of us, they should be open and accessible to any one who is sincerely inquiring: God made us for the truth, wants us to know the truth, to live upon it, to understand it and communicate it meaningfully. to that end, He sent us Messengers.

these matters , i.e. of religious judgment, impact much of what we do and know of our daily lives, if not the entirety thereof.

the vast majority (perhaps even all) of what we regularly and justifiably take ourselves to know comes about variously —and often through a corroborative combination of— precisely the same kinds of factors and considerations upon which the most solid, stable, and evincive cumulative case for the existence of God and the basic truths of religion can be made.

belief in God is an innate knowledge that is accessible to all human beings by virtue of their rational nature.

so, as Muslims, we adjudicate these reports of Prophets and Messengers based on our properly functioning cognitive faculties, which the Creator, by His Mercy and Wisdom, instilled in us to purposefully & intentionally apprehend the truth from & about Him, which is available to each sincerely inquiring individual.

that means, our judgments about Islam and the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ , our judgment about the Qur'an and about the various Bibles: these judgments are not spurious or based on credulity; it is made through the normative operation of our innate rational cognitive faculties, and is the purpose thereof;
we can understand and accept what God prescribes for us, and must do so, completely: this reality means sincere affirmation of that rationality and basis from which the belief springs forth.

which is why the foundation of our faith begins with testifying, based on evidence, to God's Oneness and Uniqueness, to His being without likeness and without partner, in a manner which befits His Supreme Majesty.
any belief which contravenes this, is contrary to the very nature that we have been instilled with by God: it is contrary to reason, to nature, to scripture.