Window to Eternity Our discussion of Al-i İmran 3:59 so far leads to some astonishing results: The context (Al-i İmran 3:55: 'to God') as well as the grammar of Al-i İmran 3:59 ('before God') indicates that the comparison between Jesus and Adam is not a comparison of their respective births, but that the verse is about the creation of Adam as the first earthly human being and the entrance of Jesus into a heavenly existence as the first human being. Just as God raised Adam,

The passages Al-i Imran 3:59, Cin 72:18-20, Zuhruf 43:61 and Lokman 31:28 testify that Jesus Jesus resurrected was resurrected before the Last Judgement and that he was given a special role by God in relation to the resurrection of humanity. It therefore also makes sense in the light of the overall message of the Qur'an to read Al-i İmran 3:59 as a comparison between Adam's earthly creation and Jesus' resurrection at the time of his departure from the earth. Jesus' resurrecti

In principle, the resurrection of Jesus is not questioned in the Qur'an. Jesus himself speaks Rock Tomb of it: 'So peace (as-salaam) is on me the day I was born, the day that I die, and the day that I shall be raised up to life (again)!' (Meryem 19:33). The discussion among Muslim scholars centres on the historical sequence of events mentioned in the above verse. The most widely held opinion is that the sequence must be birth - ascension to heaven without death at his departu