It is not a theme for Muslims to differentiate between messengers. In fact, the opposite is true. All messengers are special selection of elevated humans who came to complement and reinforce the teachings of one another. For those who try to set the stage for preference between messengers, let them have it, but then what? Are they ready to follow the true teachings of their preferred messengers?
Deut 18.15 should be read in context with Deut 18.18 which is commonly misinterpreted to refer to Mohammad. v18 says " I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him." To Moses Allah spoke directly but what about Mohammad? Muslim argument is solely based on selective interpretation of word "brethren" whereas context and the verse itself does not point to Mohammad in anyway.
Thou art the Christ (p206, DOCC) Jesus reveal His divinity by His mighty miracles, when He heals the sick and raised the dead. Even before He took humanity upon Himself ,He saw the whole length of the path He must travel. He knew all yet He said” Lo, I come; in the volume of the Book , it is written of Me ,I delight to do Thy will, O my God, yea Thy law is within my heart. Temptation of Jesus When Christ went unto the wildernest after His baptism He came to contemplate His mission and just as by appetite Adam’ sin so the work of man’s redemption started at the point of appetite, and Christ fasted for 40 days and forty nights. And afterward he was an hungered. When Satan and the Son of God first met in conflict, Christ was the commander of the heavenly hosts; and Satan , the leader of revolt in heaven was cast out. Now their condition is apparently reversed, and Satan makes the most of his supposed advantage. One of the most powerful of the angels, he says has been banished from heaven. The appearance of Jesus indicates that He is that fallen angel, forsaken by God and deserted by man. A divine being would be able to sustain his claim by working a miracles;” if thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. “ Such an act of creative power, urge the tempter, would be a conclusive evidence of divinity. It would bring the controversy to an end. Not without a struggle could Jesus listen in silence to the arc-deceiver. But the Son of God was not to prove His divinity to Satan, or to explain the reason of His humiliation. By conceding to the demand of the rebel, nothing for the good of man or the glory of God would be gain. Had Christ complied with the suggestion of the enemy, Satan would still have said, show me a sign that I may believe you to be the Son of God. Evidence would have been worthless to break the power of rebellion in his heart. And Christ was not to exercise His divine power for His own benefit. He had come to bear trial as we must do, leaving us an example of faith and submission. Neither here nor at any subsequent time in His earthly life did He work a miracle in His own behalf. His wonderful works was all for the good of others. Though Jesus recognized Satan from the beginning, He was not provoke to enter into controversy with him. Strengthened with the memory of the voice from heaven, He rested in His Father’s love. He would not parley with temptation. It was in time of greatest weakness that Christ was assailed by the fiercest temptations. Thus Satan hopes to prevail. By this policy he had gain victory over men. When strength fail, and the will power weakened, and faith cease to repose in God, then those who had stood long and valiantly for the right were overcome. Moses was wearied with forty years wandering of Israel, when for the moment his faith lets go its hold upon infinite power. So with Elijah, who had stood undaunted before King Ahab who had face the whole nation of Israel with the four hundred and fifty prophet of Baal at their head. After that terrible day upon mount Carmel, when the false prophet had been slain, and the people had declared their allegiance to God, Elijah fled for his life before the threats of the idolatrous Jezebel. Of all the lessons to be learned from our Lords first great temptation none is more important than that bearing upon the control of the appetite and passions. Through intemperance, Satan works to destroyed the mental and moral powers that God gave to man as a priceless endowment. Through sensual indulgence, Satan seeks to blot from the soul every trace of likeness to God. Only by the inexpressible anguish which Christ endured can we estimate the evil of unrestrained indulgence. His example declared that our only hope of eternal life is through the bringing of the appetite and passions into subjection to the will of God. “The prince of this world cometh” said Jesus,” and hath nothing in me.” John 14:30. There was in Him nothing that responded to Satan’s sophistry. He did not consent to sin. Not even by a thought did He yield to temptation. Christ humanity was united with divinity; He was fitted for the conflict by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. And He come to make us partaker of the divine nature. A&O 93Temptation of Jesus Placing Jesus on a high mountain, Satan caused the kingdoms of the world to pass in panoramic view before Him. All traces of evil were hidden. “All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.”
Christ mission could be fulfill only through suffering. Before Him was a life of sorrow, hardship and conflict and an ignominious death. He must bear the sin of the whole world. He must endured separation from His Father’s love. Now the tempter offered to yield up the power he had usurped. Christ might deliver Himself from the dreadful future by aknowledging the supremacy of Satan. But to do this was to yield the victory in the great controversy. It was in seeking to exalt himself above God that Satan had sinned in heaven. Should he prevail now, it would be the triumph of rebellion. When Satan declared to Christ, The kingdom and the glory of the world are delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will I give it, he stated what was true only in part, and he declared it to serve his own purpose of deception. Satan’s dominion was that wrested from Adam, but Adam was the vicegerent of the Creator. He was not an independent rule. The earth is God’s, and He has committed all things to His Son. Adam was to reign subject to Christ. When Adam betrayed his sovereignty unto Satan’s hand, Christ still remained the rightful King. Thus said the Lord to King Nebuchadnezzar, The Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.”Dan 4:17 Satan can exercise his usurped authorithy only as God permits. When the tempter offered to Christ the kingdom and glory of the world, he was proposing that Christ should yield up the real kingship of the world, and held dominion subject to Satan. This was the same dominion upon which the hopes of the Jews were set. They desired the kingdom of this world. If Christ should consent to offer them such a kingdom they would gladly have received Him. But the curse of sin, with all its woe rested upon it. By the one who had revolted in heaven the kingdom of this world were offered to Christ, to buy His homage to the principle of evil; but He would not be bought; He had come to establish a kingdom of righteousness, and He would not abandon His purpose. With the same temptation Satan approaches man and here he has better success than with Christ. To men he offers them the kingdom of this world on condition that they may acknowledge his supremacy. He required that they sacrifice integrity, disregard conscience, indulge selfishness. Christ bids them first seeks the kingdom of God and His righteousness; but Satan walks by their side and says ; Whatever may be true in regard to life eternal, in order to make a success in this world you must serve me, I hold your welfare in my hand. I can give you riches, pleasure, honor, and happiness. Hearken to my counsel. Do not allow yourself to be carried away with whimsical notions of honesty or self sacrifice. I will prepare the way before you. They consent to live for the service of self, and Satan is satisfied. While he allures them with the hope of worldly dominion, he gain dominion over the soul. But he offers that which is not his to bestow, and soon to be wrested from him. Satan has questioned whether Jesus was the Son of God. In his summary dismissal he had proof he could not gainsay. Divinity flash through suffering humanity. Satan had no power to resist the command. We cannot save ourselves from the tempter’s power, he has conquered humanity, and when we to stand in our own strength, we shall become a prey to his devises; but “the name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteousness and is save.” Proverbs 18:10
After the foe had departed, Jesus fell exhaust to the Earth, with the pallor of death upon His face. The angels of heaven had watch the conflict, beholding their loved commander as He passed through inexpressible suffering to make a way of escape for us. He had endured the test, greater than we shall ever called to endured. The angels now ministered to the Son of God as He lay like one dying. He was strengthened with food, comforted with the message of His Father love and the assurance that all heaven triumphed in His victory. Warming to life again, His great heart goes out in sympathy for man, and He goes forth to complete the work He has begun; to rest not until the foe is vanguished, and our fallen race redeemed. Never can the cost of our redemption be realized until the redeemed shall stand with the redeemer before the throne of God. Then as the glories of the eternal home burst upon our enraptured senses we shall remember that Jesus left all this for us, that He not only became an exile from the heavenly courts, but for us took the risk of failure and eternal loss. Then we shall cast our crown at his feet, and raised the song,” Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing.” Revelation 5:12 Again and again Christ had taught that true greatness is measured by “moral worth” In the estimation of heaven, greatness of character consist in living for the welfare of our fellow man, in doing works of love and mercy. A&0 148
Before Annas and court of Caiaphas Christ suffered keenly under abuse and insult. At the hands of the beings whom He had created, and for whom He was making an infinite sacrifice, He received every indignity. And He suffered in proportion to the perfection of His holiness and His hatred of sin. His trial by men who acted as fiends was to him a perpetual sacrifice. To be surrounded by human beings under the control of Satan was revolting to Him. And He knew that in a moment, by the flashing forth of His divine power, He could lay His cruel tormentors in the dust. This made the trial harder to bear. The Jews were looking for a Messiah to be revealed in outward show. They expected Him, by one of overmastering will to change the current of men’s thoughts, and force from them an acknowledgement of His supremacy. Thus they believed, He was to secure His own exaltation, and gratify their ambitious hopes. Thus when Christ was treated with contempt, there came to Him a strong temptation to manifest His divine character. By a word, by a look, He could compel His persecutors to confess that He was Lord above kings, and rulers, priest and temple. But it was His difficult task to keep to the position He had chosen as one with humanity.
Really? God says you shall not kill. Notice that there is a period after that statement and not a comma, an exception to that statement. Don't kill. When Mohammad's life was threatened, when the lives of his followers were threatened did he say that he would trust in Allah to defend them? No, he did not. Didn't he go to war by the sword? I know that he did for the Koran said that he did. He also said if the mountain won't come to him then he would go to the mountain. That is twice no faith that his message was divine. Third time? Wife number two. Three and four. Hmm, and eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. Did we agree to the no kill policy of God? Yes, we do. God blessed Adam with one wife, Eve. In the end how many did Mohammad end up with? One to one. One to one. Shitte and Suni. One wanted to let his guy go and the other wanted his guy, right? In the end, didn't they both lead? Uh, yeah they did. Sometimes you just have to wait for your turn don't you? Children know that. I am not over simplifying it because it really is just that simple. Love your enemy. You are a temple of God. In God's image how do you appear to others. That is your true worship.
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It is not a theme for Muslims to differentiate between messengers. In fact, the opposite is true. All messengers are special selection of elevated humans who came to complement and reinforce the teachings of one another. For those who try to set the stage for preference between messengers, let them have it, but then what? Are they ready to follow the true teachings of their preferred messengers?
Deut 18.15 should be read in context with Deut 18.18 which is commonly misinterpreted to refer to Mohammad.
v18 says " I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him." To Moses Allah spoke directly but what about Mohammad?
Muslim argument is solely based on selective interpretation of word "brethren" whereas context and the verse itself does not point to Mohammad in anyway.
weda lyk it or not PRPHET MOHAMMED (s.a.w.s) is in the bible
Thou art the Christ (p206, DOCC)
Jesus reveal His divinity by His mighty miracles, when He heals the sick and raised the dead.
Even before He took humanity upon Himself ,He saw the whole length of the path He must travel.
He knew all yet He said” Lo, I come; in the volume of the Book , it is written of Me ,I delight to do Thy will, O my God, yea Thy law is within my heart.
Temptation of Jesus
When Christ went unto the wildernest after His baptism He came to contemplate His mission and just as by appetite Adam’ sin so the work of man’s redemption started at the point of appetite, and Christ fasted for 40 days and forty nights. And afterward he was an hungered.
When Satan and the Son of God first met in conflict, Christ was the commander of the heavenly hosts; and Satan , the leader of revolt in heaven was cast out.
Now their condition is apparently reversed, and Satan makes the most of his supposed advantage.
One of the most powerful of the angels, he says has been banished from heaven. The appearance of Jesus indicates that He is that fallen angel, forsaken by God and deserted by man. A divine being would be able to sustain his claim by working a miracles;” if thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. “ Such an act of creative power, urge the tempter, would be a conclusive evidence of divinity. It would bring the controversy to an end.
Not without a struggle could Jesus listen in silence to the arc-deceiver. But the Son of God was not to prove His divinity to Satan, or to explain the reason of His humiliation. By conceding to the demand of the rebel, nothing for the good of man or the glory of God would be gain. Had Christ complied with the suggestion of the enemy, Satan would still have said, show me a sign that I may believe you to be the Son of God. Evidence would have been worthless to break the power of rebellion in his heart.
And Christ was not to exercise His divine power for His own benefit. He had come to bear trial as we must do, leaving us an example of faith and submission. Neither here nor at any subsequent time in His earthly life did He work a miracle in His own behalf. His wonderful works was all for the good of others. Though Jesus recognized Satan from the beginning, He was not provoke to enter into controversy with him. Strengthened with the memory of the voice from heaven, He rested in His Father’s love. He would not parley with temptation.
It was in time of greatest weakness that Christ was assailed by the fiercest temptations. Thus Satan hopes to prevail. By this policy he had gain victory over men. When strength fail, and the will power weakened, and faith cease to repose in God, then those who had stood long and valiantly for the right were overcome. Moses was wearied with forty years wandering of Israel, when for the moment his faith lets go its hold upon infinite power. So with Elijah, who had stood undaunted before King Ahab who had face the whole nation of Israel with the four hundred and fifty prophet of Baal at their head. After that terrible day upon mount Carmel, when the false prophet had been slain, and the people had declared their allegiance to God, Elijah fled for his life before the threats of the idolatrous Jezebel.
Of all the lessons to be learned from our Lords first great temptation none is more important than that bearing upon the control of the appetite and passions. Through intemperance, Satan works to destroyed the mental and moral powers that God gave to man as a priceless endowment. Through sensual indulgence, Satan seeks to blot from the soul every trace of likeness to God. Only by the inexpressible anguish which Christ endured can we estimate the evil of unrestrained indulgence. His example declared that our only hope of eternal life is through the bringing of the appetite and passions into subjection to the will of God.
“The prince of this world cometh” said Jesus,” and hath nothing in me.” John 14:30. There was in Him nothing that responded to Satan’s sophistry. He did not consent to sin. Not even by a thought did He yield to temptation. Christ humanity was united with divinity; He was fitted for the conflict by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. And He come to make us partaker of the divine nature.
A&O 93Temptation of Jesus
Placing Jesus on a high mountain, Satan caused the kingdoms of the world to pass in panoramic view before Him. All traces of evil were hidden. “All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.”
Christ mission could be fulfill only through suffering. Before Him was a life of sorrow, hardship and conflict and an ignominious death. He must bear the sin of the whole world. He must endured separation from His Father’s love. Now the tempter offered to yield up the power he had usurped. Christ might deliver Himself from the dreadful future by aknowledging the supremacy of Satan. But to do this was to yield the victory in the great controversy. It was in seeking to exalt himself above God that Satan had sinned in heaven. Should he prevail now, it would be the triumph of rebellion. When Satan declared to Christ, The kingdom and the glory of the world are delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will I give it, he stated what was true only in part, and he declared it to serve his own purpose of deception. Satan’s dominion was that wrested from Adam, but Adam was the vicegerent of the Creator. He was not an independent rule. The earth is God’s, and He has committed all things to His Son. Adam was to reign subject to Christ. When Adam betrayed his sovereignty unto Satan’s hand, Christ still remained the rightful King. Thus said the Lord to King Nebuchadnezzar, The Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.”Dan 4:17 Satan can exercise his usurped authorithy only as God permits.
When the tempter offered to Christ the kingdom and glory of the world, he was proposing that Christ should yield up the real kingship of the world, and held dominion subject to Satan. This was the same dominion upon which the hopes of the Jews were set. They desired the kingdom of this world. If Christ should consent to offer them such a kingdom they would gladly have received Him. But the curse of sin, with all its woe rested upon it.
By the one who had revolted in heaven the kingdom of this world were offered to Christ, to buy His homage to the principle of evil; but He would not be bought; He had come to establish a kingdom of righteousness, and He would not abandon His purpose. With the same temptation Satan approaches man and here he has better success than with Christ. To men he offers them the kingdom of this world on condition that they may acknowledge his supremacy. He required that they sacrifice integrity, disregard conscience, indulge selfishness. Christ bids them first seeks the kingdom of God and His righteousness; but Satan walks by their side and says ; Whatever may be true in regard to life eternal, in order to make a success in this world you must serve me, I hold your welfare in my hand. I can give you riches, pleasure, honor, and happiness. Hearken to my counsel. Do not allow yourself to be carried away with whimsical notions of honesty or self sacrifice. I will prepare the way before you. They consent to live for the service of self, and Satan is satisfied. While he allures them with the hope of worldly dominion, he gain dominion over the soul. But he offers that which is not his to bestow, and soon to be wrested from him.
Satan has questioned whether Jesus was the Son of God. In his summary dismissal he had proof he could not gainsay. Divinity flash through suffering humanity. Satan had no power to resist the command.
We cannot save ourselves from the tempter’s power, he has conquered humanity, and when we to stand in our own strength, we shall become a prey to his devises; but “the name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteousness and is save.” Proverbs 18:10
After the foe had departed, Jesus fell exhaust to the Earth, with the pallor of death upon His face. The angels of heaven had watch the conflict, beholding their loved commander as He passed through inexpressible suffering to make a way of escape for us. He had endured the test, greater than we shall ever called to endured. The angels now ministered to the Son of God as He lay like one dying. He was strengthened with food, comforted with the message of His Father love and the assurance that all heaven triumphed in His victory. Warming to life again, His great heart goes out in sympathy for man, and He goes forth to complete the work He has begun; to rest not until the foe is vanguished, and our fallen race redeemed.
Never can the cost of our redemption be realized until the redeemed shall stand with the redeemer before the throne of God. Then as the glories of the eternal home burst upon our enraptured senses we shall remember that Jesus left all this for us, that He not only became an exile from the heavenly courts, but for us took the risk of failure and eternal loss. Then we shall cast our crown at his feet, and raised the song,” Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing.” Revelation 5:12
Again and again Christ had taught that true greatness is measured by “moral worth” In the estimation of heaven, greatness of character consist in living for the welfare of our fellow man, in doing works of love and mercy. A&0 148
Before Annas and court of Caiaphas
Christ suffered keenly under abuse and insult. At the hands of the beings whom He had created, and for whom He was making an infinite sacrifice, He received every indignity. And He suffered in proportion to the perfection of His holiness and His hatred of sin. His trial by men who acted as fiends was to him a perpetual sacrifice. To be surrounded by human beings under the control of Satan was revolting to Him. And He knew that in a moment, by the flashing forth of His divine power, He could lay His cruel tormentors in the dust. This made the trial harder to bear.
The Jews were looking for a Messiah to be revealed in outward show. They expected Him, by one of overmastering will to change the current of men’s thoughts, and force from them an acknowledgement of His supremacy. Thus they believed, He was to secure His own exaltation, and gratify their ambitious hopes. Thus when Christ was treated with contempt, there came to Him a strong temptation to manifest His divine character. By a word, by a look, He could compel His persecutors to confess that He was Lord above kings, and rulers, priest and temple. But it was His difficult task to keep to the position He had chosen as one with humanity.
Really? God says you shall not kill. Notice that there is a period after that statement and not a comma, an exception to that statement. Don't kill. When Mohammad's life was threatened, when the lives of his followers were threatened did he say that he would trust in Allah to defend them? No, he did not. Didn't he go to war by the sword? I know that he did for the Koran said that he did. He also said if the mountain won't come to him then he would go to the mountain. That is twice no faith that his message was divine. Third time? Wife number two. Three and four. Hmm, and eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. Did we agree to the no kill policy of God? Yes, we do. God blessed Adam with one wife, Eve. In the end how many did Mohammad end up with? One to one. One to one. Shitte and Suni. One wanted to let his guy go and the other wanted his guy, right? In the end, didn't they both lead? Uh, yeah they did. Sometimes you just have to wait for your turn don't you? Children know that. I am not over simplifying it because it really is just that simple. Love your enemy. You are a temple of God. In God's image how do you appear to others. That is your true worship.
Astagfirullah Hal ajim