Wa Alaikum As'salam,
Throughout the Old Testament, all Prophets prayed like Muslims. They even prayed towards the Holy Temple of GOD Almighty:
"I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word. (From the NIV Bible, Psalm 138:2)"www.answering-christianity.com/kaaba.htmAnd the Bible thoroughly foretold about the coming of Prophet Muhammad from the lands of Kedar
(modern-day Saudi Arabia), and also the establishment of GOD Almighty's HOUSE there:
www.answering-christianity.com/predict.htmSo Jesus falling on his face and bowing to GOD Almighty wasn't just a one time thing, for the following reasons:
1- This would make Jesus' prayer a hypocritical one and a false one, since here he would be telling GOD Almighty:
LOOK GOD, I AM SO DESPERATE THAT I AM WILLING TO EVEN BOW MY FACE DOWN TO YOU.
This would make his prayer a false one, as the false religion of Christianity, a conjecture, is a false religion of lies and conjecture.
2- All Prophets before Jesus did it. So it is not unusual for Jesus to do it.
3- The New Testament is missing MOUNTAINS OF FACTS about Jesus. We only have little about him.
4- The praying in secrete that Jesus commanded was SUPPLICATION (Duaa) and not actual Prayer.
5- If Jesus said that bowing to GOD Almighty is an invalid Prayer, then he has thrown out all of GOD Almighty's Laws on Prayer in the Old Testament.
For more information, please visit:
www.answering-christianity.com/jesus_hypocrite.htmSimply put:
Christianity is a false religion of conjecture.GOD Almighty in Islam and the Bible is called
The Gaurdian (المولى). It is mistranslated as "The Father". But Islam came and fixed that:
www.answering-christianity.com/1john2_22.htm
www.answering-christianity.com/convert_christians.htmThis is similar to
"Daughters of GOD". You don't find this anywhere in the OT. Only
"Sons of GOD". Again, Islam came to also fix this term, because they are not Divine Sons of GOD. They are
MUSTAFA.
It is interesting that both the Glorious Quran and the Bible agree that Abraham was called the
FRIEND (خليلا) OF GOD. Visit the links.
Again, the Bible thoroughly foretold about the coming of Prophet Muhammad from the lands of Kedar (modern-day Saudi Arabia), and also the establishment of GOD Almighty's HOUSE there:
www.answering-christianity.com/predict.htmAnd again, simply put:
Christianity is a false religion of conjecture.Take care,
Osama Abdallah