sorry for late response
I'll remind you of this the next time when you say that miracles don't prove the prophecy of someone . Back on track , miracles are not everything . If you just read his biography of actual sources , you'd know why he's the greatest of mankind . Oh , and did the Christ silence the most eloquent with the Bible , split the moon , or make 100% accurate prophecies ? Of course I as a Muslim believe that in the true message he couldn't make a false one but that's probably not the case with you .
The message of Jesus was not written by Him He came to live the word not to write it. Jesus fulfilled over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament, and He perfectly kept everything written. The Bible has always been about Jesus because He is the Living Word of God, so naturally He is better than the Bible, the written word. Miracles add to the authenticity of the messenger, but they don't 100% prove he is from God because false prophets perform miracles too. The anti-Christ will perform many miracles in his own name. I wrote this because I see that the quran mentions the miracles of Jesus and not those of mohammed. I am inclined to believe that their are no miracles mentioned in the quran that Mohammed performed because you tell me to read his biographies, but which one? Their are many biographies of Mohammed and most Muslims don’t accept them all same with Hadiths. Reading the biographies of Mohammed are where the 4'th question comes in about being demon possessed. Jesus silenced every body because he lived the perfect life they couldn't even convict Him of sin. Do you think they could make Him stumble with words God won't allow it. Read the gospels you'll see Jesus had true wisdom. All of Jesus' prophecies came true or will come true when He returns. As far as splitting the moon, I'm sorry, but Mohammed did not split the moon. I don't know where you live but the moon is in tact as far as I can tell when I look at it. Jesus miracles where those to help mankind not a demonstration of power what could splitting the moon even accomplish besides messing up the tides. Jesus healed the sick and helped the demon possessed in fullfillment of prophecy and as an ultimate Testimony of His identity as God in the lives of those He helped. The apostles of Jesus did the same but not under their authority, but under that of Jesus. Jesus' biggest miracle was forgiving sins. Knowing my sins are forgiven is greater than having any disease cured.
That's YOUR belief . And I have a feeling this belief of yours isn't even right in the Bible but I'll let that aside since I'm not an expert .
How can you even say your prophet is from God when you haven't compared him to other prophets. Read the bible compare him to the prophets in the old Testament and tell me if he measures up. My point is that Jesus is greater so compare him to Jesus and see if mohammed is greater. Jesus not only heard the words of God. He saw God and he imitates what He saw. How can Mohammed measure up to that when he never talked to God and the spirit he did talk too he confused with a demon. The verse you give is a grim demonstration of who God is. If God is unwilling to reveal himself to mankind, then he can't find fault with those who don't believe in Him because He didn't show himself. It's in reading the biographies that I find the most disturbing details of an angel choking Mohammed and of Mohammed being suicidal and affected by magic for up to a year. Why wouldn't I be concerned about Mohammed being the only prophet that God didn't talk too.
It shouldn't be a strange thing for God to talk directly to a prophet. If you pray directly to Allah, and you are nowhere near who Mohammed was, why can't Allah talk directly to Mohammed. If a barrier exists then it exists both ways not on the recieving end only but the giving end as well. If their is such a barrier between prayer and God spoken of in the quran let me know.
That would require a whole thread
Surely there is a thread on here with this spoken of could anyone post a link?
When it's new to someone that they see an angel with wings covering what's between east and west , wouldn't they be overwhelmed ? Not to mention that after he found out , his fear was gone and he proceeded to deliver the message .
What biographies did you read? I'm not saying it was a lack of faith, but the circumstances lead me to believe it was a demon. He was choked three times. His wife told him to continue. He wanted to quit. Furthermore, he was suicidal for a long time maybe the rest of his life. If it was a momentary lack of faith it would be bad, but a continual thing is unheard of. The spirit kept assuring him he was an apostle of God when he tried to kill himself. Why would he continue to tell him this if it wasn't an issue any more? Sorry I try to keep the discussion to the quran itself because if I was a muslim it would be my main focus, but you wanted to talk about the biographies so there it is. No Christian would ever accept Mohammed as a prophet according to the biographies because their is fair warning in the Bible that in the future demons disguised as angels of light could give a message that contradicted Jesus deity death and resurrection which is exactly the message Mohammed received from the "angel". Why do you think it is such a big deal for me. Furthermore, according to the biographies he died a false prophets death by, poisoning according to what I've read, and all his sons didn't live a long time which one who reads the old testament could say is God's judgement on Mohammed house. I don't like biography arguments because they are above all written by fallible men, but their is a strong case to be made in the biographies for Mohammed and against him. I don't appeal to biographies because I know muslims don't believe they are infallible. The quran however is infallible in your eyes, and it tells Mohammed to compare his message to other scriptures which is a very good thing to do. The old Testament says if a prophet comes and what he says contradicts what was said before he is a false prophet. I believe if you take this into account you will see why I am asking these questions. Because no matter how much you say the new Testament has been changed, even though you can't claim this because Mohammed said that it was the word of God to the Christians and Gods word can't be changed by any body, you can't say the old testament has been changed because the Jews have kept it on their own, and it says The Messiah is God and He would suffer and die for the sins of His people. The dead sea scrolls were proof that the old testament hadn't changed look it up it was identical to todays versions.
First of all , we don't believe that the current Bible is the original message sent with Christ peace upon him . Secondly , Islam is the ONLY religion that limits marriage to 4 . There is no limit in any other . And when you tell me there's no divorce , that's more of a reason for me to refuse it . Just imagine if life became impossible between the two .
Your right that its a belief you have no proof of this and your Quran teaches other wise. Why 4 Adam only had one wife,Eve, every one else was his daughter? If I couldn't keep my commitment or promise I made before God to stay with someone till death then I certainly wouldn't further transgress and be joined to another. If I failed to keep the promise the first time why should I make the same promise again. People don't divorce because life becomes impossible they divorce to find another wife or Husband. If they really were divorced because of other reasons they would still honor their commitment and not re-marry. Again if the quran limits the number to 4 how many wives dud Mohammed have I've been told it's more than 4
