The Antichrist in Muhammad: Muhammad's Fear of the Cross The
Qur'an 4:157-58 denies that Jesus died on the cross. Some Muslim
scholars maintain that the crucifixion did not occur at all.
Others, in perhaps the most common explanation, argue that
someone else, for example the apostle Judas or a Jew named
Titanus, was substituted in Jesus' place. Some, on the other
hand, say that Jesus was miraculously saved from death and taken
to heaven by the intervention of Allah. Some, finally, argue
that Jesus did not die on the cross, but only swooned or
appeared to die, and thereafter recovered. Regardless of the
various theories raised to justify the alleged revelation, the
Muslim scholarship is virtually unanimous in maintaining the
veracity of the clearly-historically-erroneous Qur'an and
denying, by the word of one man without any personal knowledge
of the fact, the historical crucifixion and death of Jesus. St.
Ignatius died for his faith in the Gospel, and certainly not in
vain since his faith was well-based. Part