The Muslim Jesus was a Failed Prophet
December 7, 2010 at 1:10 pm
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2010 at 2:32 pm by DeistPaladin.)
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.
One problem that is curious for me is how Muslims will say Jesus was a "great prophet". What do they mean by "great"?
If the Muslim story is true, it means that Jesus came to preach a message to the Jews and be the forerunner of Muhammad. He wrote nothing down about his teachings and, within a few years of flying into the sky, along comes Paul who tells everyone that Jesus is a higher god who must be prayed to for salvation. His followers then splinter off into many factions based on a variation of belief about the divinity of Jesus (all of which are incompatible with Islam). The final result is a group of Christians who worship Jesus as a god and refuse to recognize Muhammad, whom Jesus was supposed to be the forerunner of.
It would be hard for me to imagine a more epic failure as a prophet.
One problem that is curious for me is how Muslims will say Jesus was a "great prophet". What do they mean by "great"?
If the Muslim story is true, it means that Jesus came to preach a message to the Jews and be the forerunner of Muhammad. He wrote nothing down about his teachings and, within a few years of flying into the sky, along comes Paul who tells everyone that Jesus is a higher god who must be prayed to for salvation. His followers then splinter off into many factions based on a variation of belief about the divinity of Jesus (all of which are incompatible with Islam). The final result is a group of Christians who worship Jesus as a god and refuse to recognize Muhammad, whom Jesus was supposed to be the forerunner of.
It would be hard for me to imagine a more epic failure as a prophet.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
