Jesus was merely a messenger of God. his message to the people of that time was to worship only one god (monotheism) and to not associate any partners with him (God). he was one from among a chain of prophets which came in each era with the same message revealed to them for the people. prophet muhammed (peace & blessings be upon him) was the last and final messenger of god and was the "seal" of prophets. (meaning the last of the prophets). make sense ?
2006-08-13 09:00:51 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-08-13 09:02:29 · answer #1 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If Jesus and Muhammed were messengers for the same God, why is there a special place in Hell for Jews and Christians in Islam when the Jews were Jesus' God's chosen people and Christians were His followers?
Jesus didn't make sin. Jesus allowed sin. It's called Free Will.
2006-08-13 09:06:35 · answer #2 · answered by Pippin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will tell you this in love not hate. Muhammed is a false prophet. He wanted to be a prophet and yes, he is the founder of the Islamic religion. It's not "faith based" sense you are judged by your works.
You can follow the Qu'ran to the letter and still not find favor in Allah's eyes. ((How sad that you would live in fear of your salvation.))
There is no god or religion where their god seeks you for a relationship. None.
Jesus loves you and seeks a relationship with you. Your salvation is sealed when you believe and ask Him (Jesus) into your heart. It's that simple. You then study His teachings and follow in His footsteps. Jesus died on the Cross for your sins (and mine). Now I'm no longer a sinner. I am a new creation in Christ, Jesus.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new.
John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
You are asking Christians, Spiritual questions from the flesh and a non-Christian view point. You probably won't understand the answers. I'm not being rude, just honest.
Jesus didn't make sin. Satan did...he (Satan) was kicked out of Heaven for it! (Pride is a sin).
Jesus was more than "merely" a messenger. Jesus was God in the flesh and natural here on Earth. (God is Spirit) Jesus, his only begotten son...So, Jesus is God.
God / Jesus is seeking you out...he loves you and wants a relationship with you.
What are you waiting for? He's calling your name. He wants to spend eternity with you...works are not involved, just faith!
Matthew 7:15 "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
Matthew 24:11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
2 Peter 2:1 But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
1 John 4:1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
May the Grace of God Our Father and Jesus show you a new life and the way to Heaven.
2006-08-13 09:03:57 · answer #3 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus did not create sin. God created human beings and gave us free will but expected us to respect His authority. Our first father and mother decided to rebel and that was sin. God is perfect and sinless and therefore cannot sin nor can He be tempted to sin.
Sin broke man's relationship with God, because although God loves man, He hates sin and is perfectly holy and cannot come in the presence of sin. But His love for man was so great that He became man in order to become the only acceptable and perfect sacrifice to connect God and man together again.
Christ was not "just a prophet." When you read the Bible, you must accept Him either as an insane man (which is what we believe people are when they claim to be God over and over again, yet are not) or you must accept Him as the Lamb of God, come to save man from the rebellion against God that he chooses every time he sins.
There is no middle ground. Christ simply did not offer one. He did not say he was "a way," He said that He was THE way and THE truth. He is the fulfillment and the perfection of God.
Islam is a religion which demands works --there are things that you must do in order to reach paradise, and even then, there is no assured forgiveness. As presented in the Koran, there is no totally 100% perfect way to God. With Christ, we have to accept that man has no way to God except through Christ. Christ Himself was not a messenger of God -- He is God.
2006-08-13 09:13:09 · answer #4 · answered by Amie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was not "merely a messenger of god". Jesus was God incarnate (in human form) as he stated on multiple occassions in the New Testament. The cornerstone of Christianity is the "trinity" in which God is in three forms; God the Father, Jesus the son of God, and the Holy Spirit which resides in every individual that accepts Jesus Christ as their personal savior and believes that he is the son of God that washes away the sins of the world. God allows sin as "free will". God does not force himself upon us, he allows us to choose Him. Hope this helps.
2006-08-13 09:10:22 · answer #5 · answered by pconnelly10 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question!
But think about these:
Jews for Jesus = Vegetarians for Hamburgers
God? He or She?
Church? Christianity? Jesus? Dying?
What is the Imacculate Conception supposed to mean?
Does Imacculate Conception = "VIRGIN BIRTH"?
Google Imacculate Conception and learn something.
What else do you falsely believe, Immaculate Deception?
Jesus, the basis of Christianity? .
If Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.
Can Gods die?
If Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed?
Did Jesus give up Saturday for us?
No Eternal sacrifice, big deal for a day!
If Jesus died for our sins, there should not be any more sins, else why go through with it?.
If Jesus really DIED, he should be dead, dead, dead!
Life after death is like virginity after childbirth.
If the flesh of Jesus died, what was seen walking and talking on Sunday?
If you believe this stuff, you are not going to like the folks who don't. You want them to believe it too to validate you.
Christians want everyone to convert to their non-thinking in order to be 'saved'.
Believing and not thinking is like choosing a mental illness and becoming truly lost.
2006-08-13 09:19:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus IS God (the Son, the second member of the Holy Trinity). God did not "make sinning." Adam brought sin into the world when he disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit.
2006-08-13 09:08:57 · answer #7 · answered by Kidd! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is simple. God made us with free will, the power to make our own decisions. Jesus was more than a prophet. He wasn't really here to spread the truth. His purpose was to be the ultimate sacrifice. Before Jesus,once a year you would sacrifice one of your best cattle and be forgiven. God realized that wasn't working. People thought " Hey, I can sin as much as I want and as long as I sacrifice my best cattle, I will be saved." So He sent Jesus here to be the last sacrifice. After that people no longer killed their cattle. They simply just asked for forgiveness.
2006-08-13 09:14:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anthony L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it doesn't make sense, because Jesus wasn't a prophet.
but to answer the initial question, God did not make sin, God made man with free will.
Now I know it's hard for us to grasp this, but the reason He made us with free will was so we would love Him. Not because we were forced to, or were just robots, but because we wanted to. Hence the free will. Now God did know that not all would love Him, but if we knew that 1 out of 10 kids grow up to hate their parents, would that stop us from procreating... i doubt it, because we all want little kids to love and to love us back, it's a great thing.
so anyway, since we have free will, Adam and Eve got to choose to obey God, or disobey God, and we all know where that went.... and that is what brought sin into man... now we have our Godly nature... i.e. we were made in His image..... and our sinful nature... and we have to choose between the two. and since God knows we aren't strong enough to always hold back the sinful nature, He decided to send His son Jesus, to lead an example for us, and to die for us. And by acknowledging He did this, and accepting His grace, we are washed clean of all our sins, and accepted into heaven.
2006-08-13 10:38:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No sense at all. You need to read your bible, In the last days God said our sons and daughters would prophesy. He is not finished yet. And by the way sin came into the world through Satan. Read Genesis Chapter Three.
2006-08-13 09:12:31 · answer #10 · answered by Blessed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, it makes sense. But Muhammed was a false prophet. Jesus said "I am the first and the last", meaning no more after him, making Muhammed a false prophet.
2006-08-13 09:03:45 · answer #11 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋