Jesus was simply brilliant with HIs teachings.He was selfless and He worked miracles which are acknowledged by jews ,christians and even muslims.Why shouldn't He be regarded as the greatest prophet if you don't think He is the son of God?
2006-10-20 02:03:40 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus and Mohammed are indeed in complete contradiction. Mohammed was a sinful man (as we all are sinful), who claimed a revelation from an angel to set up a religion contradicting Christ and His teaching.
Christ is the sinless Son of God who came to die in our place and take the punishment for our sins that we rightly deserve. He came to give us life and set us free from religious bondage. He is also quite exclusive in his teaching, for example He said, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father but by Me." No room there for Mohammed or the Muslim religion or any other.
You are right His teachings are indeed, "brilliant." No one can carry them out without God's enabling. They are too demanding, too perfect. They have the stamp of the Divine and could never have been made up by a mere man, unable to carry them out. How can you teach and show example of something you cannot do? !
He is indeed selfless to perfection, ministering goodness and health to multitudes and sealing his ministry by dying for his enemies. No mere man has ever done that !
Neither did He do harm or kill as Mohammed did and as many others have.
God attested him with many and powerful miracles such that multitudes were amazed and flocked to him. No one has ever seen the like, neither before nor since. Mohammed did no miracles.
You say He should be regarded as the greatest prophet and indeed He was.
Thousands of years before Him, Moses, by revelation from God, declared that God would raise up a Prophet like him. Throughout the Old Tesament, over thousands of years and through many and varied prophets, there are many prophecies of Him, of His lineage and genealogy, the time, manner and place of the His coming and of His death and manner of death - some are very detailed and exact. All as part of a continuing and growing revelation of God. All these can be seen to have been exactly fulfilled. It is staggering. That could only be accomplished by God, since only God is able to control events and the future.
Mohammed had no such prophecies. Not even one. No genealogy, no history, no continuity, nothing to identify him. He just suddenly popped up in the midst of paganism with allegedly all of God's revelation for the world ! Incredible.
How could Mohammed bring a greater revelation of God than God Himself ? ! ! !
If Christ be God's Son, as He clearly declared, then Mohammed's claims are absurd.
That Christ is Divine , the Bible makes clear. He asserted it and He was recognised as such by His closest followers (by revelation from God) and - perhaps most tellingly - because this very claim was the reason why the religious leaders crucified Him.
But to their everlasting shame, Jesus's Divinity is clearly shown and completely vindicated in His resurrection. Christ Himself taught that He would rise from the dead and never before nor since has that happened and it is too preposterous a claim for a mere man to make. It is piteously true that Mohammed died, but that was the end of him.
Christ's claims are unique and exclusive and have nothing in common with any other.
It is abundantly clear that Jesus and Mohammed have nothing in common but are in fact totally in opposition. It ought to be equally clear which demands the serious claim for our consideration.
2006-10-20 07:48:07 · answer #1 · answered by Iain C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why either or? Jesus was a good person, possibly: we don't actually know much about him/her (I actually believe she was a woman), but there have been many other good people before and since. Gandhi, for instance.
We don't actually know much about Jesus because most of the evidence people generally accept are the Gospels, which are at best dubious. They were written up to maybe seventy years after the event, and personally, I don't think anyone can remember in that much detail after even one year. Also, they have been altered to suit the political whims of various people, notably the Popes and also King James 1 of England - and that was after they were mistranslated several times in the first place, and emphasis on the wrong parts has made things grow misshapen. A shining example of all this is the infamous Exodus passage which proclaims "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Explosive stuff, I'm sure, except the original Hebrew said something about a poisoner rather than a witch. But a poisoner isn't something you can have an inquisition over, is it?
Of Mohammed, I know little, which is probably more than I wish to know about him, anyway. He was a warrior who, when he was fifty, married a girl - a girl, not a woman - of twelve.
You ask me whether I would choose either Jesus or Mohammed, however. Based solely on the behaviour of their adherents, I wouldn't give either of them house-room...
2006-10-20 02:32:40 · answer #2 · answered by Phantom1174 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things in common...(I'm leaving out differences in doctrine as they distract from the question.)
both men are religious figureheads.
both men are easily recognisable as being the bearer of the word for their respective religion.
both men were from the middle east
both men lived a long time ago
both men lived controversial lives and bucked the system.
(Jesus was crucified, Mohammed (PBUH) had to flee to Medina)
both men were religious sages with millions of adherents for both. The fact that Jesus has a lot more followers than Mohammed isn't relevant here. They both have millions of believers, point.
The greatest prophet? this is a question with subjective answers, and as such, an objective answer cannot be given. Others would say that Elijah is the greatest prohpet. Who knows.
Some people even believe that Jesus was a magician (some of the miracles...?) Others truly believe in the miracles.
My point is there are a lot of things both men have in common.
2006-10-20 02:22:31 · answer #3 · answered by Balaboo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both were chosen by the God as his prophets, I strongly deny
that he worked miracles on his own , it was the divine powers
of the God descended through the hands of Jesus. The people at that time were so blind they thought Jesus was the God or the son of God. He shouldn't be the greatest prophet because he has misleaded the followers to pray him instead of the God. God has no son whosoever. He is the one and only God in the universe. It is a great sin to pray other than the God, in which God will never forgive such a sin.
2006-10-20 02:57:15 · answer #4 · answered by S.K. Chan46 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Saying this prophet or that prophet makes you miss the bigger picture. Just know who created you! I do not know what the true religion is but God is there that much I know 100%! So if there is a God out there that is just and much bigger than us then why would he just throw you in hell for just being a christianity or jew or muslim or send you to heaven because you claim to be one don't waste your time trying to rank the messengers just try to live like one of them remember and please your creator by being the best you you can be and let the creator do the rest! That is what i am trying to do!
2016-01-17 23:56:18 · answer #5 · answered by Besufekad 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its obvious you know nuts bout Islam. Islam love Prophet Isa and he is considered one of the greatest prophet. His teaching is true and indeed hes brilliant. We only disagree what christians or Jesus worshipers have the idea of Prophet ISA is God.
Jesus is NOT God!. Hes mere human, just like u and me. If you wanna say miracle, prophet Moses did miracles too.
2006-10-20 02:25:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
He is regarded as the greatest prophet by the overwhelming majority of people in the world. Christians make up 35% of the world. Muslims only make up 15%. There's more than twice as many Christians in the world as Muslims. Chrisitanity has been around for 2000 years. Islam has been around for 1400. Simple math proves that there will always be more Christians than Muslims. That means Jesus wins.
Amen!
2006-10-20 02:09:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Muslims believe that Jesus was a prophet and that he was sent from God as this. So was he crazy or lying when he said " I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6, NIV) ? Either he was who he said he was or he wasn't. I do know, that it is written: Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord.
2006-10-20 02:23:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that Jesus is the Son of God but i believe that He is the Son of God. Us Christians believe that God Loves us more than anything in this world that He is willing to sacrifice He's only Son Who is in fact a part of Himself to save us from our sins. The reason why we can b saved if we believe in Him is becoz He is perfect n he never sin like any other human.
2006-10-20 02:20:55 · answer #9 · answered by Crystal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the Prophets of Allah are great men. As there were so many one would expect there to be different ways to practise your religion, all of which are good. The main belief that all monotheists hold is that there is only one God. Everything else is secondary, so we shouldn't be arguing over the other facts, lets embrace what we have in common.
2006-10-20 02:16:31 · answer #10 · answered by Mr Slug 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋