For those who think Atheists and Agnostics only ask stupid questions...?

Question

Why are all prophets but yours false? I asked this one the other day and I didn't get too many hits. Please do not sight scripture, the Jews could do the same to you about Jesus, so my question stands, Why are all prophets but yours false?

For persons of any faith that didn't understand why I didn't want scripture sighted... I wanted to hear YOUR thoughts on it, not the Bibles thoughts on it, I don't need foot notes. P.S. thanks for all of the answers thus far.

Answer 1

Sheer ignorance on both sides. No one wants to take the time to understand the others belief with an open mind, they do it only to find faults so that they can condemn.

That is whats wrong with these religious fanatics, only theirs is the righteous.

Answer 2

That question is assuming that we Christians think that all prophets but "ours" are "false". Assuming that we DO assume that, I must also add that some of "our" own prophets are false too - the reason? What they say does not comply with scripture. On that same note, some other prophets may be true, that aren't Christians, because what they say does line up with scripture. What we see as making some prophets true and some not true all rests on scripture - which is the baisis of what we believe. Asking a Christian not to sight scripture would be like me asking you not to say anything that anyone else ever thought of - or anything you ever got from another source... our whole lives are based on scripture!

By the way, I personally do not think you guys ask stupid questions - if you never ask, you never learn!

Answer 3

Quoting scripture sir is how we back up our answers. I'm an English Major and every paper I ever had to write we had to use some sort of text to back up our answer, other wise we could be making it all up. The truest answer and Christian can give you is Faith, we have a believe just like you. I can question what you believe 18 ways from Sunday just like you can question me. If the Faith isn't there than 1 You don't care, 2 You don't believe in it anyway. Your mind was already made up, doesn't mean it can change but it's my belief that God will reveal himself to you when he's ready and all the typing in the world won't convice you until he does. For you it's not about believing in a prophet or Jesus or Maybe even God. You were so satisfied with your question that you don't need an answer and none will suffice.

Answer 4

Prophets? Okay so this question isn't directed towards my religion because we have no prophets. Hinduism has gurus (teachers) and avatars (incarnations), but no prophets. If someone wants to find God they needn't go to someone else. "Tat tvam asi" or "you are that" as the Upanishads say. Afterall, if everything in the universe manifested from God and everything contains the divine spark within it, then we are not seperated from God at all. So no prophets are needed.

And for the record, if Hinduism did have prophets they'd still say the same things the ancient gurus and rishis say in the Vedas and Upanishads and countless other sacred texts: "There is one God, though humanity calls It by many names." I do truly believe that there is one universal "God". Now what I call "God" and what someone else calls "God" is probably not exactly the same because we are each experiencing a different aspect of God. I always like the Hindu story of the six blind men and the elephant because it really relates to how I think (and how I thought before I became a Hindu). It basically goes through and has each of the six blind men coming across an elephant as each of them, individually, is walking through the forest. Each of them is only able to reach out and touch one small part of the elephant as it passes them: the tusk, the trunk, the ear, the leg, the body, the tail, etc) and each of them then goes back to their home village where they never have seen an elephant and tells them about the experience. The question is then asked "Whose right about the elephant?" A good point considering that none of them touched the entire elephant. And that is what Hindus say about God. That God is so big, so vast, that each of us is just touching one small part of God. I always liked that image and it explains what I already believed before becoming a Hindu far better than my old explaination.

Of course my love of Hinduism grew when I learned that Hinduism not only embraces and tolerates and accepts all other religions, but that it also accepts the idea that one does not need a religion to get to God. A wise Hindu teacher I heard speak once said "Even a mother whose only desire is to be a good mother in life and so strives to be a good mother keeping her focus intently on the child, so much that the child becomes God to the mother. Even this mother will find God and achieve moksha (liberation from the cycle of birth and death and union with God) because it is her focus on God through her child that brings her to God and nothing else and the same is true for us." I remember a person asking the teacher "is the mother an atheist or does she believe in God" and I remember his answer so clearly "Athiest or Theist, it does not matter." I remember thinking how bold a statement that seemed. I mean, I always figured that a religion had to somehow defend the idea of a theistic God, but here was one of the teachers (and not the only I have heard since then) say that it doesn't matter if the person is theist or not. Of course another wise teacher even wrote a book and on the cover it had a quote from him that said "Take religion and add science and what is left is spirituality." I always liked that quote, too. Probably because I have always enjoyed science a lot.

So, no other prophets, religions, teachers, etc are false. It is only an illusion that there are multiple deities by different names, the truth is everything in the universe manifested out of one source, call it God or call it something else (the Buddha called "the Void" and Mahavira didn't even bother to call It anything).

Answer 5

There is no right or wrong "prophets." Jesus of the Jews, Muhammad of Islam, Buddah, all of these prophets trurly existed, and all of these men had major impacts on the religious beliefs of the world. The words these men, and many other prophets, are real. It isn't false, there is no made-up character, Jesus really existed, so did Muhammad, so did Buddah, so did many other prophets before and after them.
What is false is people imposing and pressing their "view" of what is right onto other people. These people are the false people who choose to ignore that there are other beliefs and other religions out there besides their own.
Besides the evidence of scriptures, evidence of the Roman Empire says that Jesus existed and made "events" happen beyond common human limits.
Islam is the biggest, in terms of followers, religion in the world.
And Buddhism is reaching across the globe.
So to answer your question, there is no false prophets. All are real, it is up to the individual to decide which to accept as their own truth and which to ignore to be false. I, however, accept all prophets to contain a little wealth of information about the spiritual world.

Answer 6

Cause all my stuff is the best... though I don't know that I have any prophets. I may have to work on some people in here to gather up a few prophets, give them a book to repeat (cause that is obviously true prophecy... no actual foretelling of events... just repeat an old book)... so that alone would make them more true than anyone else's prophets... right?

Answer 7

There are no stupid questions. Play Ball said it so clearly. Everything that was said about Jesus in the Old Testament came true and everything that Jesus said or did in the New Testament has or is coming true......A Profit is one who can for tell the future and is always 100% correct. This is what has happened and is still happening in God's word, the Bible.

How can I not site scripture and prove a point? Everything is based on God's word. Such as Isaiah 53, which for told of Jesus 600 years before he was born. This scripture is in the Old Testament which the Jews accept.

And yes, there are other religions besides Christianity. But God says that Jesus is the only way to Him (not religion). He sent His only begotten Son to the earth to tell us about God, to die for our sin, to forgive our sins, and to live again so that we can live again in heaven with God. This is they only way to have eternal life.

Answer 8

First of all, I don't think Atheists and Agnostics only ask stupid questions. Although the majority of those questions seem to be asked in a hostile manner.

Why are all prophets but "ours" false?

Well first of all, they're not "our" prophets. They're God's. If there is only one true God, then the only prophets that can be genuine
are the prophets of that one true God.

That's because prophets speak for God, not for themselves.

Answer 9

I am not one of those who think that there are stupid questions out there, but only stupid answers, and I am here to leave one.
All prophets but mine are false, because I choose to, as I have a right of an opinion, as everybody else. I don't have a right to torture and force the others to choose the same beliefs, but to show a respect for those.

Answer 10

Christians believe that God/Jesus is the only true prophet... That is their belief... there is nothing wrong with Christians believing that... They have the freedom and right to believe what they want just like you have the freedom and right to believe what you want...

other religions believe that their leader is the only true prophet... what difference does it really make...

I guess each person has their beliefs and they think that they are the only correct ones... Most people are closed minded and don't want to consider another explanation...

Answer 11

Because those who speak against God and His word are all false prophets and are of satan who are antichrist. And your going to get scripture anyway.

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Matthew 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

Luke 6:26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.