RE: Muslim Jesus: Great Prophet?
January 21, 2013 at 12:52 pm
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2013 at 12:54 pm by Confused Ape.)
(January 21, 2013 at 12:36 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Fair enough but what does the adjective "great" mean?
If all you have to do is deliver a message, there is no qualitative assessment, especially relative to anyone else in the field. You either did or you didn't.
I'm not a Muslim so I don't know what criteria Muslims use in order to regard Jesus as a great prophet. All I can say is that he succeeded in passing on what he regarded as God's message to a lot of people so he was just successful in this mundane sense. (All supposing he ever existed, of course.)
PS: The point of my post was asking what definition of the word prophet is being used when asking the question.