RE: The Muslim Jesus was a Failed Prophet
December 8, 2010 at 1:01 am
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2010 at 1:03 am by Rayaan.)
(December 7, 2010 at 1:10 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: There are a lot of inherent problems with Islam as the Johnny-come-lately to the party. It must appeal to the old prophets of the OT and to Jesus and yet claim that the established religions of Judaism and Christianity are corrupted and the later religion, Islam, has got it right. It also has the problem of explaining just where the heck was Allah the whole time that his favored people ran off the beaten path for a thousand years and the followers of Jesus for several hundred years after that.
This Johnny-come-lately argument for Islam doesn't mean that there is a problem with Islam itself. I think it's a derisive term with no significant value.
What was Allah doing all this time before He made Islam? I don't know, but remember that Allah works in mysterious ways. For example, maybe He was just fine-tuning the past religions as time went on. Eventually, He wanted to correct all the past religions by sending another prophet who would be able to deliver His last and final message to all mankind, without any corruption this time.
And why isn't that possible? Is it because it implies that God is not omnipotent?
On a second scenario, I've also heard the Imams saying that all the previous prophets were also teaching Islam, starting from Abraham to Muhammad (peace be upon them), but it's just that the previous religions were a corruption of God's true religion (which is Islam). So, maybe Islam is the first and last religion, not just the last religion as many people think it is. If that's the case, then the term "Johnny-come-lately" wouldn't be a suitable term for Islam, because this is the religion that was preached by all the prophets.
Also, Muslims don't need to say that Jesus was a "great" prophet, because all prophets are great anyways. We simply call them prophets, or messengers of God. And we are not supposed to over-praise any of the prophets because God is the greatest and He is the one who deserves all the praise, not the prophets. Even though all the prophets are great, Muslims believe that Muhammad was a greater prophet than Jesus because he is the seal of all the other prophets and there will be no other prophets after him.
As for Jesus being a failed prophet, it doesn't matter because he is still a prophet like all the other prophets.
On the day of resurrection, Jesus will get angry at the Christians and he will say to them (something like), "What?! When did I say that I am the son of God? When did I tell you to worship me? I never said that. Instead, my followers invented a lie against me! You should've listened to my successor, Muhammad (pbuh), the last messenger of God." Then the Christians will be ashamed of themselves.
