Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Jesus Is Just one of a Series of Prophets, and Muhammed was the Last Messenger *

Here is a very common argument:
Muslims often claim that Jesus is only one of many prophets.
Every prophet was sent to their own people group.  For example, Noah was sent to the people of his time, Lot to his people, Moses was sent to the Jews, as were David and Jesus. 
There is a (weak) Hadith that says there was a total of 124,000 prophets sent, but some Muslims still believe this.  However, in contrast to all the other prophets who were sent to their respective clans, Mohammed was sent to the entire world.

This forms an additional reason for putting Jesus aside and following Mohammed.

One question that comes to mind is this.. What is it about Mohammed's life and message that makes it final?  Mohammed died as a result of being poisoned by a Jewish woman. 
Why did Allah not warn his prophet that he was eating something bad?

Jesus died on the cross during the Passover festival.  Christians believe that Jesus, by paying the price for sin, and made the way for humanity to be reconciled to God. 

17 Don’t assume that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
(Matt 5:17)

Doesn't the word "fulfill" denote finality?



30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, It is finished!” Then bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
(John 19:30)

Muslims will object that Mohammed was the final prophet because he came with a book, and that book has been perfectly preserved until now.  Both assertions are questionable.  If Mohammed's purpose was to produce a book, then why is the Quran not in in chronological order according to when it was revealed?  The answer is that it was actually compiled after his death, and the compilation was in a somewhat haphazard way.  Also other texts were ordered to be burned.  Muslims are the original Quran burners.

Many revelations in the Bible include the historical context.  Here are three examples:

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne..
(Isaiah 6:1)

I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of God’s word and the testimony about Jesus. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet 11 saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches:
(Rev 1:9)

Psalm 3 starts with the context when it came to him:
A psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom.
(Psalm 3:1)

So in contrast to the Quran, we see the Bible is in good historical order with many detail provided so we can know the dates that events occurred. 


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