With the whole world available, why did God only choose 'The Holy Land' to send his prophets/son/messengers?

Question

It's an awfully big world, and what became 'the holy land' is a tiny part of it. So why did it get all the deity action? What was wrong with Russia, America, Australia etc for a change of scene for a new prophet?

And also, why did it all happen within a fractional timespan of our existence here on Earth?

It wasn't just argumentative posturing by different factions at war, was it?

A few people suggest that certain places 'weren't discovered yet'. No - we hadn't discovered them, but other people were already living there. Pretty much the whole world was populated 2,000 years ago.

Answer 1

Rent costs. The Holy Land was a good price and He got a free dishwasher thrown in.

Answer 2

The Holy Land wasn't the only place to receive inspiration. It was just the only place to receive the Judeo Christian inspiration. Rome had their Gods, but then the Christian God came along, and, as was told by the older Gods, once Rome stopped believing in them, Rome would fall, and so it did.

The Native Americans, both North and South had their own religion until Christian Europe came along and made it illegal, taking children away from their parents so that they could be raised by proper Christian orphanages, away from their Pagan Savage parents. Certainly that was much better.

Celtic Europe has a rich Pagan history. Or had, because the Christians outlawed it, along with midwifery and healing by traditional means, until the college educated doctors could resurrect it, effectively eliminating the role of traditional healers.

China has Lao Tsu, then there is Buddah and others around the world. Some might claim Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce as prophets.

It's just that the rest of the world doesn't get the attention. There aren't as many wars being fought over them of late.

Answer 3

I'm guessing for consistency. If he sent them all over the world, then we'd probably start guessing, hmmm maybe Buddha was a prophet of God? Maybe Mohammed? Maybe Confucius?

If we knew that the Prophets were going to be Jewish, and that the Messiah was going to be of David's blood it helps cut down the number of false prophets and false messiahs.

The Jewish people also were very resistant about not syncretising with other religions, other groups of people had many gods, etc.

Answer 4

It's more logical if you take a secular/historical account of things.

But if I try to answer the question from a religious perspective. OK, God likes the Jews ... he calls them his "Chosen People". The Jews just happen to live in the Mid East. So Judaism pops up there. Jewish prophecy says the messiah will be from the line of David, so Jesus has to be Jewish, so boom .... Jesus is in the middle east.

Then Muslims come from a Jewish father. Abraham. Ishmael is one of his sons. So boom .... Islam pops up in the mid east too.

If the original Jews had been from South America ... then I think all three religions would have popped up there as well.

Answer 5

This question actually masks another, namely why does the Abrahamic stream of tradition (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Bahai, Mormon) hold to their particular view of divine revelation? There have been texts in every culture of history that were regarded as sacred communiques, but the uni-directional understanding of "revelation" has been allowed to dominate in cultures based on Abrahamic religious tradition. As for prophets, from Russia, try H.P. Blavatsky; from America, Joseph Smith; from Korea, Sun Myung Moon; from Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I; et. al. But truly, prophethood is in the eye of the beholder.

Answer 6

All these was brought on due to the fact that someone started some sort of religion, he told stories, misheard or misunderstood, was written down. Misinterpretations of the stories and writings throughout time was misinterpreted over and over again. At that time naturally, there were no such countries as Russia, America or Australia. The being that started the religion was from wherever that being was at that time.

Answer 7

Well.. God Almighty have sent soooo many prophets and messengers... only few are mention in Holy Books... Every nation add tribes had a prophet or a messenger...

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Answer 8

Each religion has its own Holy Land as well... the Norse had Midgard, Christians have Isreal, Druids have their groves, etc.

And maybe the Christian god likes the hot wastelands of the middle east. Maybe he's got something against trees and grass. Maybe he just likes watching Israelis and Palestinians kill each other. Who knows? I don't.

Answer 9

Adam & Eve were the prgenitors of the Jewish people as a race.. All of the Bible revolves around that premise. They are His chosen people. From there, the Gospel was sent out to all the world (gentiles).

Answer 10

God sent prophets and messengers to all nations, we came to know about a few, there have been a huge number of noble souls on earth to guide people on to the right path, the right path though has always been the same, but people or to say majority of people opposed the noble souls of their times, only a few, very few people supported or followed the teachings of their contemporary prophets/messengers.

When with time civilizations grew, they got matured, in politics, sociology, language, and most of all in Philosophy, if i am not wrong all the great philosophies and philosophers of time came about a 600 B.C to 300 A.C (after Christ).

With the development of civilizations the teachings of the prophets they brought from God got more and more in detail, because mankind was able to apprehend them.

With Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham), peace be upon him (PBUH), God promised that he (the God) will raise prophets in his family, and he being the beloved prophet and his children being the beloved people God raised them in the Geometric center of the EurAsian continental plate, that is Middle East.

On other continents with people living on them, there were prophets for the people. Moses (PBUH) was sent to Pharoah and Children of Isaaq (Israeel), Jesus (PBUH) was sent to the children of Israeel, to remind them of the forgotton faith.

Please also remember that all prophets had the same teachings, Adam & Ibrahim, was the worshiper of one God, so were his sons, Ismaeel and Issac (Israeel), and so were Moses and Jesus (PBU all of them) , though the people had to follow the preaching of the prophet of their own time sent for them by God (because with time people used to modify, mis-interpret and forget the teachings of previous prophets).

As the world began to be globalize, the prophets began be fewer in number and generalized for larger groups of people, When Muhammad (PBUH) was sent as Messenger in 610 A.C, he was blessed by God to be his messenger, for the whole of humanity. After Muhammad there is no prophet, (no largely adopted faith is seen) and he (PBUH) is to be accepted as the final prophet, Quran, the message of God, is frozen for any alteration or modifications cant touch it, the language in which it is revealed is frozen as well, with no change over the last 1400 years.
May Allah guide us all to the right path.