Why do other religions, other than Christianity, acknowlege the life of Jesus Christ and consider him a prophet? By definition, the word prophet means a person who speaks the will of God. Jesus spent his life teaching his followers that he is the Son of God, "the way, the truth, and the light." Why would followers of other faiths believe him to be a prophet, even though they don't believe he was who he said he was? Isn't that contradictory? The theory that God sent a prophet to the world to virtually lie to his people makes absolutely no sense. In the words of Jesus, as quoted from the KJV, "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent," John 17:3. This is not a debate. I truly do not know the answers! Call it curiosity, but this has puzzled my mind for years. Thanks to anyone w/ the answers.
2007-09-19 10:15:44 · 9 answers · asked by Laura H 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ok, let's say it is a debate. If we ALL assume that he did teach that he is the Son of God, other than just us Christians, what would the explanation then be? I'm not getting near as many answers as I thought I'd get. I'm just trying to gain knowledge as to how other religions perceive Christ, and why they have those perceptions.
2007-09-19 10:30:04 · update #1
That has always puzzled me, too. If you accept Him as a good man and a prophet, then you must believe He didn't go around spreading lies. Therefore, He is the Son of God. Period.
2007-09-19 10:22:51 · answer #1 · answered by Faye 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One can believe a person a prophet, but that the accounts of his or her life might be less than accurate. In other words, while one might believe that Christ was a prophet, one may still believe the Bible to be something other than inspired scripture. There are many accounts of Christ's life that were not included in the Bible.
It is quite possible that among competing views of Christ's life as well as his status as prophet or divine son, one was chosen and promoted over the others; in fact, this is what happened. Other views were declared heretical. Had one of these other viewpoints been more powerful, our understanding of Christ, and the Christian church itself would have been quite different today.
I believe Christ to have been a very wise man. I don't believe that he was the one and only son of God.
2007-09-19 10:27:28 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because......Jesus has been elevated, by some, to the level of God. A prophet is human, but Jesus has been elevated past human. However, Jesus said he was the Son of God, and I believe that we are all Children of God.
Jesus taught that we can attain the same level of spiritual development that he did. Jesus taught us to look within, not outside, for our relationship with God.
I believe that Jesus attained a high level of spiritual development and that he was a spiritual teacher, prophet, and that door is open for all to walk through. Jesus did not teach from the current Bible, it was compiled years after his death. Jesus did not start a church while he was alive, he said, 'look within yourself'.
God, cannot be contained within the box of ANY religion.....we must be able to look past the box we are in, to be able to understand the perspective from which God comes from. We are so afraid to step outside of our box......but outside the box is freedom, and yes, I believe we can know the face of God.
How? Ask questions, and be ready to think differently about almost everything......
2007-09-19 10:38:25 · answer #3 · answered by Grace 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple. Jesus had some good ideas that weren't all that different from what other guru/prophet types have said. As for the "I am God" bits, obviously the scribes misquoted him. Selective quoting is not just a Christian trait.
2007-09-19 10:28:33 · answer #4 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you're speaking of Muslims, by the time they received books of the bible, the bible was not yet codified, and contained different information. There are old books of the bible where Jesus refers to himself as a Prophet. MY guess is they were based off these books rather than the ones the RC church picked as Canon.
2007-09-19 10:20:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What a brilliant question, it seems that to admit that Christ came from God and spoke nothing but truth, is simply ignored or else these other faiths would have to crumble.
2007-09-19 10:22:15 · answer #6 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only religion that I know of that thinks of Jesus as a prophet is Islam.....
So why is it that you said religions plural?
2007-09-19 10:26:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
People change things to better suit what they believe. Look at christianity and paganism. Either paganism changed some things in christianity to suit themselves or christianity changed some things from paganism to suit themselves. Wether any of it happened and who changed who is irrelivent. The fact is (if christianity is right) the devil is twisting facts to make people rebuke Jesus or (if christianity not right) people twist facts to suit there beliefs
2007-09-19 10:23:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well the thing is, it's pretty frickin' hard to say exactly what he said he was.
2007-09-19 10:20:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋