There are some in our world today who believe that we who call ourselves Christians have been misled.  They believe that we have misinterpreted the Scriptures and as a result have misrepresented the one we claim to follow.  A well-known Indian by the name of Zakir Abdul Karim Naik is leading this attack on evangelicals.  Naik, a devout Muslim, is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation and travels throughout the country speaking on the subject of Islam and comparative religion.

One issue he spends a great deal of time on—a subject that he discusses quite frequently is the doctrine of Christ, more specifically the claims of Christ.  Zakir believes, like most Muslims that Jesus was a respectable prophet, but nothing more.  He also goes as far as to say that Jesus never claimed to be more than that. 

If that statement is true then our belief system as Christians crumble, because the deity of Christ is at the heart of the Christian message.  If it is true that Jesus did not claim to be God—if it is true that we have misinterpreted the Scriptures and have misrepresented Him, then we as believers are wasting our time following Him and reading and study God’s word.    

The truth, however, is that it is Zakir who has misinterpreted the Scriptures and Zakir who has misrepresented Christ.  It does not take much digging—it does not take much research at all to see that God is exactly who Jesus claimed to be.