… prophets are just ordinary people, under extraordinary circumstances?

Question

how do you feel about this statement/

Answer 1

I think you can not say like this about prophets all the time.
if u want to know why ? because they are messengers from Allah to the people , so how people could believe in them ?
How u could know if this prophet is right or wrong ?
How could they teaching us the religion if they are ordinary ?

I could say they are ordinary in the human being nature of needs (from food, using bath ...etc) but extraordinary in teaching us the religion.
One main reason for the prophet to be extraordinary to let the people believe in him using miracles that Allah gives him . (ex. prophet Issa was curing the blend people , rising death ones to live by the allowance of Allah , Prophet Mohamed (PUBH) the most famous miracle that are forever is the QURAN , rising the water in between his hands, the crack in the moon -discovered early by NASA- ... etc) because these miracles for their people who are not believers in Allah or not united to worship one God or using other media to contact God.

So prophets needs miracles to prove for there people - and us - that they are true and saying true .
one thing you must know , prophets when they are teaching people the religion , they must not make any mistakes so they are contaced to Allah by Gabriel - the messenger from Allah to the prophets - to tell the prophets what to say , how to act for specific situations , and what to do to survive from there enemies.

So , they are not ordinary in telling the message from Allah , but ordinary in their needs - human needs - .

Answer 2

All "men" were created equal, right?
The Pope, prophets, Mother Teresa, "saints"..according to the Bible, God loves the homeless man on the street every bit as he loves these people.
We are all just people. Some just have bigger egos, & a smaller sense of what is real.

Answer 3

Ordinary people don't have delusions. Prophets need to be led in a straitjacket to the nearest mental facility for continuous lobotomies; failure to do so can result in such horrific expressions of delusions such as the koran, bible, torah...

Answer 4

A prophet of God is an ordnary man that is blessed with the holy spirit, and is used only for the glory of God.

Answer 5

Prophets are just sales representatives for religion and they do it for profits. It’s all about money, power and control of gullible minds. Consider the following.

Sam has a lunatic in his head, but God tries to cure him with another religious Bible con-trick. For far too long we have been inundated with religious preachers knocking on doors, screaming on street corners, babbling in church, and worst of all, using TV to ram their beliefs down our throats and those of our children. Prophets or profits? I think the answer is obvious. Hands raised upwards, then into the pockets, let’s give money money money.

A little old lady comes on stage, push her forehead, she falls over and low and behold, she’s cured of her mental and physical woes. Hands raised again, yep you’re on to it, let’s give more money money money. Check out the preachers shiny white teeth as they count their gold.

Here’s the truth. Sam has a lunatic in his head, crippled legs, done his bit for the country, but Sam manages to come on stage smiling, gets pushed over, falls flat on his rear end and he’s still got a lunatic in his head, and he’s still a cripple. Guess what, no money money money. That’s the real truth. All of the magic cures are just fake stage plays, and they do it for money, money, money.

Answer 6

yeah. makes sense to me.

God Bless

Answer 7

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT IT???

Answer 8

I don't know.....