Since there was no mass communication, wouldn't God have sent more than one prophet.?

Question

Like Abraham, Buddha, and Mohammed.

There are many paths to God, he does not care which path you take.

Answer 1

Gorgeous - if you weren't from TX, I'd probably say something I'd regret.
Might I suggest a equally valid statement of your thesis: Since there was no mass communication, wouldn't God expect the followers to be dedicated to spreading the truth far and wide?
If we follow your wording - one would expect God to at least figure out the prophets should all have the same message and perhaps come at the same time? And just what message did Abraham bring? Buddha - has some re-incarnation suddenly changed the rotund one into a prophet?
If there are so many paths to God, then why do each of the major religions claim there is only one..
Remember now, Gorgeous, I know you are from Texas and all, but when did you decide to overturn 3 major religions to decree God doesn't care? Girl - and I can say that as your elder - you are worse than any of the pope bashing comments you make for unilateral pronouncements. And they aren't even in Latin!

Answer 2

Hey, the problem is that there is only one path. Jesus makes that quite clear in John 14:6. As for the 'mass communication' bit, I am a little confused. I don't think that there is a single answer in the whole 'religion and spirituality' section here that Jesus Christ isn't mentioned. I would say that God's only mouthpiece (other than the Bible) to this world in the last 2000 years has done a pretty good job. As one poem so eloquently puts it, (sorry, don't know who wrote it, i've just heard it a few times and I found it on the internet)

Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.
He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself...

While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One of them denied Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. While He was dying His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth – His coat. When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.

Nineteen long centuries have come and gone, and today He is a centerpiece of the human race and leader of the column of progress.

I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that were ever built; all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life.

Answer 3

Well Buddha and Muhammed don't line up with Biblical tenets, so I can't really speak for them. If God took great care and many many prophets to tell us about Himself and how to relate to Him, then why go elsewhere for a relationship with God. It depends on if you truly believe in the Bible or not. I do so can only speak from a christian perspective. These other so called prophets go against the instructions of what God gave us so I must reject their teaching. They are supperfluous and unimportant to me. It'd be similar to recieving directions to a home on the end of a road with no turns where the end of the road is the house and then say...well can't we just dig a tunnel around and there....and OH we could build a skybridge....It just makes perfect sense for me to drive down the road to the house. That's a simplistic view but just the way I see it.

Answer 4

Buddha is not a profit. It is even a separate faith all together. God did send many Prophets. But most importantly for Christians he sent a savior. Jesus Christ. There is only one path to God You keep believing that crap and you will certainly find the path to Hell Fire. Oh don't you know us Christians like telling people they are going to Hell. Well I'm an Atheist and I just thought I would try it to see how it feels. Ah that felt good. So now I will go on counting monkey bones looking for that missing link. OO

Answer 5

If the three people you mentioned were all "prophets" of God, then why do their beliefs differ so much? Each offers different paths to salvation. Why would God have so many different paths to heaven? It makes more sense to me that He made one way to heaven, and revealed it to man through certain prophets (and ultimately, His own Son, Jesus). The way is so simple, but people have rejected it and created their own paths that they believe will take them to heaven, but the answer has been right in front of them.

Answer 6

Sure God sent more than one prophet. He sent Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Micaiah, Elisha, Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah, Jonah, Malachi, Joel, Obadiah, and the list goes on...

Answer 7

Well, the time was actually great for Jesus to come. The Roman Empire had created the first major roadway system, and had communications with people from the British Isles to China. It was also a good time because his message was optimistic towards the opressed (women and poor). You can thank my Agnostic History teacher for that one.

Answer 8

God sent the One. the one who was with Him at the beginning. He was with him, and he WAS him!

The only way to God is through Jesus.

You can take your chances with Allah, Buddah, or whatever human Pseudo-diety- SEE YA!

Answer 9

There is only one way to eternal life. Jesus said "I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but by me."

Answer 10

ALL who tell of the PROPHETIC WORD are PROPHETS!


The twelve disciples-and now US TRUE CHRISTIANS!

Buddha was a BEATNIK, Mo a child molester and war monger! Certainly NOT Prophets of THE GOD!