Muslim Christian Dialogue

16. King David Called Him "My Lord"

KING DAVID CALLED HIM "MY LORD"

Psalm 110:1: "The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at My right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool." Mentioned here are two Lords, if the first Lord (the speaker) is God, the second Lord (the one spoken to) could not be God also, as David knew only One God. So it should read: "God said unto my Lord".

-Question: Who was it that David called "my Lord"? The Church would say Jesus. But this had been denied by Jesus himself in Matthew 22:45, Mark 12:37 and Luke 20:44. He excluded himself from this title, as he was a son of David. How could David call him "my Lord" if he was his son, he argued. And David himself said in the book of Psalms, "The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on My right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool." David therefore called him Lord. Otherwise David would have said:" My Lord said unto my son..."as the genealogy traced in the Bible of Jesus is from David (pbut).

Jesus must have given an answer not recorded in the four canonical Gospels, but is mentioned explicitly in the Gospel of Barnabas that the promise was made in Ishmael, not in Isaac (pbut). David's Lord was thus Muhammed (pbuh) whom he saw in spirit. No Prophet ever accomplished more than Muhammed (pbuh) in establishing the worship of the ONE GOD on this earth. Even the work of all other Prophets together cannot be compared with what Muhammed (pbuh) achieved within a short period of 23 years. It is unrivalled as is stated in the 'Encyclopedia Britannica,' that the most successful prophet of all time is Prophet Muhammed (pbuh).

It is also very important to note here that each and every prophet from Adam to Muhammed including Moses & Jesus (pbut) worshiped only One God. Nowhere is it recorded that any of them worshiped two or three gods.