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Topic: Who was jesus, Prophet? Posted: 31-Jan-2009 at 10:02 |
Originally posted by Cryptic
What extraordinary abilities does the Quran or Islamic tradition describe Jesus as having? |
I don't think I can relate a whole list to you, some are above. Speaking in Infancy, healing the blind, curing the lepers, virgin birth. Islamic tradition usually accepts the biblical account, walking on water etc. Although there will be alot of skepticism about water into wine. As wine is neither Kosher or Halal.
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i see ur point, but you've only used quotations from the Quran to support ur point. |
Well that is where our religion comes from. We don't accept the NT as an authentic religious source, and where there are sections that support us, there is an offical Church interpretation to the opposite. If I view the bible from an Islamic point of view there is theology to be learnt. If I view the bible from a Christian pov you can also learn things. But you cannot teach the basics of Islam from reading the bible from a christian point of view. If you could then Christians would be muslims. That's the whole point. I can direct you to this site: http://www.islam-guide.com/ch3-10-1.htm it may be more what you are looking for, but I don't give any guarentees about its content or intention.
it also seems a little odd that god would send this magnificent prophet/messiah which his prophets spoke admittedly of through his prophets for over 500 yrs, who was only supposed liberate humanity, only to have his message completely twisted completely out of proportion by his own followers within 50 days of his death. its the biggest flop on god's behalf ever recorded. |
Aren't you second guessing God's motives there? God doesn't make everybody to be believers, not every prophet to be sucessful. If he wanted everyone to believe, they would. There are thousands of prophets whose names we haven't even heard of. There are prophets who were killed shortly into their mission, there are prophets who's only job was to prepare for the next one. We are sitting here discussing Jesus 2000 years after he lived, there are still people who based on his example live moral lives. Christianity is undoubtably better for your sole than paganism. He was one of the most successful. He just wasn't last. Probably only Muhammed and Ibrahim were more sucessful
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Posted: 31-Jan-2009 at 12:16 |
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
Although there will be alot of skepticism about water into wine. As wine is neither Kosher or Halal.
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Wine can be kosher.
(Not that I'm suggesting you would)
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Posted: 31-Jan-2009 at 22:29 |
Oh, I didn't think alcohol was kosher.
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Posted: 01-Feb-2009 at 20:51 |
I don't know the rules for kosher wine, I just knew it existed. All the Jews I know don't bother about it.
I have a Muslim friend or two who go through the odd bottle with dinner, too.
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Posted: 02-Feb-2009 at 20:44 |
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
Originally posted by Cryptic
What extraordinary abilities does the Quran or Islamic tradition describe Jesus as having? |
I don't think I can relate a whole list to you, some are above. Speaking in Infancy, healing the blind, curing the lepers, virgin birth. Islamic tradition usually accepts the biblical account, walking on water etc. |
Is Mohammad or Abraham described as having similar abilities such as miraculous healings, or walking on water? Also, by accepting the virgin birth of Jesus, is Islam stating that Jesus did not have a human father?
Originally posted by gcle2003
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
Although there will be alot of skepticism about water into wine. As wine is neither Kosher or Halal.
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Both Kosher and ordinary wine go back along ways in Judaism. The prophet Isaiah and other prophets repeatedly use imagary relating to wine and vineyards to convey religous teachings. Jesus (culturally Jewish) then continued this tradition where drinking wine was permissable for religious and secular reasons i.e turing water into wine and the use of wine (blood of Christ) in the eucharist.
As a side note, Kosher wine is ordinary wine that has been made by religous law. Therefore, it can be potentially used in Jewish religous ceremonies. If it has not not blessed, it can be drunk normally.
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Posted: 03-Feb-2009 at 22:57 |
Is Mohammad or Abraham described as having similar abilities such as miraculous healings, or walking on water? |
Ibrahim is, but different. The regeneration of the bird, surviving being burnt. Just to be clear these are miracles from God rather than from the person. They don't illustrate Jesus's power, but Gods.
Also, by accepting the virgin birth of Jesus, is Islam stating that Jesus did not have a human father? |
Yes.
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Posted: 05-Feb-2009 at 08:55 |
"Aren't you second guessing God's
motives there? God doesn't make everybody to be believers, not every
prophet to be successful. If he wanted everyone to believe, they
would." -Omar
Second guessing god's motives? Really Omar.
That is nonsense. of course I'm not second guessing his motives. i
don't need to guess guess his motives, nor can i. I'm just comparing
what happened (according to you- that jess' message, the message of
the great messiah, was twisted to the point of idolitary in less that
two months) to what the prophets said would happen. thats the whole
point of prophesy. it's so we know what god is going to do and make
sure we are working with and in accordance with his will and
plan. All I'm saying is that that there is a big difference to
what you saying happened and what the prophets said would happen,
where as if you say that jesus actually forfiled his task and passed
on a message and a covenant that did bring freedom to the Jews and
Gentiles then this works with prophetic literature of the old
covenant. That's why I'm not second guessing, I'm just looking at
what the old testament and the facts on Post-crusifiction doctrine
according to Muslims and am trying to reconcile the massive void
between the two. The two just don't match, regardless of your
interpretation.
and your statement about " God doesn't
make everybody to be believers, not every prophet to be successful."
isn't that second guessing God's motives. if i am interpreting you
correctly and you're saying that god only wants some of us to believe
and others to forgo eternal death, and assuming you are right, please
explain to me and everyone else who does not come under the banner of
thought that qualifies you to become a believer, why god chose you
and not us? Also I'm curious as to what your definition of a
"successful prophet" is? isn't any prophet who follows the
guidance of the divine successful? the only way it is not sucsessful
is if the prophet is disobedient. If God planned for Jesus' message
to be distorted and lead Billions of people astray into idolatry. Now
god new the effects of this distorted message and that Jesus
followers, including his own Brother, would create a theological
monster? Is this part of his plan? Mabey it is, though he never one
indicated that the messiah would ever bring about such a distorted
theological machine. He said quite the opposite, that this messiah
would be exulted above all other men to rule the earth from mount
Zion, where his throne would be established.
There is another problem, which i would
also like to raise, and that is this. If Jesus did do what the
prophets said he would do, and establish a new covenant with man,
then if he was just the messenger for this errand, why was his manner
completely different from moses? Let me explain.
Moses was chosen by god to lead the
people and establish the covenant that god promised to Ibrahim, one
which would extend to the house of isreal, Ibriham's decendant. He
said tot he people of isreal (the entire nation at once) that the ten
commandments were sent by god, along with the requirements and laws
laid out in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, and was clear that it was the
Lord, God of Abraham, God of Isaac and God of Jacob by whom this
covenant had come from and who it was with.
Edited by Truthisnotrelitive - 05-Feb-2009 at 08:56
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Posted: 05-Feb-2009 at 08:57 |
Jesus took a completely different
approach. He announced the new covenant over dinner with some
friends, and he didn't say that this was God's covenant between God
and man (i.e man being Jesus + his disciples + rest of the earth).
He said “This cup is the new covenant between god and his people,
an agreement confirmed with my blood, which is poured out as a
sacrifice for you. [Luke 22:20] emphasis added)
an agreement confirmed with my
blood, which is poured out as a sacrifice for you. This
is an odd statement. By this it is clear that jesus blood is a
sacrifice poured out (that's
a lot of blood!) which confirms the new covenant. Now if jesus'
blood/life is a sacrifice, and as he has stated earlier on that this
new covenant (the establishment of the kingdom of God of which he
talks extensively on- bordering on obsessively in all books of the
Goslples) then proves problematic. When god made a covenant with
Abraham a sacrifice was made. The condition of sacrifice in the law
was that it was perfect, and as jesus said “he came to forfill the
law, not destroy it”. He said this because it is impossible to
destroy a covenant. You can break it and therefore be unable to
recive it's benefits but you can't destoy it. If you break it you're
a party of a broken covenant, but the only way god could establish
the new covenant promised through the prophets was to get rid of the
old contract so he could establish the new one. How does one get
completely rid of the old contract? As i said earlier on, god
divorces Israel, so to speak. But it is a little more complicated
that just that, as he promised to be the god over all of isreal and
that he would never leave isreal or abandon them. He says he will
separate himself from them is they're disobedient, but he can't just
pack up and leave. IF he did he would break his oath, and become a
liar, thus becoming unholy.
When he “ends” his covenant of favor with isreal, he finds
himself in a bit of a pickle. So, inorder to keep his promises in the
old covenant about separating himself from isreal if they sinned and
yet keep his promises to Abraham about eternal blessing, the only way
to do both is end the old covenant. How does he do that? By
forfilling his bit so he does not become a liar.
But the only way a covenant can end is if both parties do what they
said they would do. If the children of Israel were to forfill the
law, then they would have to be perfect, yes? But scripture is clear
that this is impossible “the human hear is desperately and
deceitfully wicked. Who can know it?”. So how does one still for
fill the law and be done with it? By offering a perfect sacrifice as
atonement for sin (breach of contract).
So how does this relate to Jesus? In order to be a sacrifice, he had
to be perfect. But according to scripture that is impossible for a
man. Scripture says “no man is perfect, there is not even
one.”Only god is perfect. So if Jesus was a man, How can he be an
acceptable offering for the confirmation of a Covenant? And if there
is atonement for sin for all through him (I am the door, I am the
way, the truth, the life, no one can come to the Father except
through me” (even if you offer animal sacrifices you cannot come to
the father in the sense which he interpreted coming to the Father
meant)) then how is that possible for a human to release man of a
covenant made by god? Is Jesus more powerful than god. The only thing
that has dominion over god is himself. So if jesus was like a piece
of the divine, therefore his comment at the supper table makes sense.
Otherwise he is clamming to be as holy as god, but is infact not,
thus becoming a hieratic (the only group of people he ever really
condemned).
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Posted: 07-Feb-2009 at 04:57 |
Truth you have read my posts but you haven't understood them. You trying to interpret Islam in a biblical fashion. You will never understand the Islamic concept of Jesus while you hold onto the bible and Jewish national mythology.
God does not have anything to do with Jewish national mythology, or a biblios written by humans. Nor does Islam.
I think I have already answered your last two posts in my previous posts.
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Posted: 14-Feb-2009 at 19:02 |
Omar
I respect your right to believe but The Quran is the word of God, and as such is infallible - there are many scholars and even former Muslims who do not agree with this statement; starting with Ibn Warraq a former Muslim.
I also notice he is critical of Orthodox Christianity also.
There are many Christians who believe the same thing and while I do not share either view I would suggest reading "When Critics Ask."
If you believe this then more power to you but I do not agree with you.
It still might be good to read conflicting views, I do all the time.
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Posted: 15-Feb-2009 at 04:34 |
? Well obviously a former Muslim would think or believe that the Quran isn't the Word of God otherwise why bother That would be like a former atheist believing or thinking that there is still no God
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if a muslim believes that the Quran is not God's words then he is not a Muslim anymore, i don't know if that applies to Christianity, but i guess if you don't believe that jesus is God then you are not christian anymore.
Jesus is a Prophet in Islam, its stated in the Quran, therefore he is a Prophet to muslims, and since the Quran and the Hadiths stated clearly that the Christians and Jewish Holy Books were changed and not exactly as they came from God, whatever written in those holy books is considered God's words if they agree with the Quran and questionable if it does not agree with the Quran.
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Posted: 03-Apr-2009 at 14:36 |
Always comes back to the same principle.
No one has ever been argued into a faith, unless they have pre-disposed themselves to an argument that is the same vein as their current state of inquiry or situation.
A person may simply be looking for something to confirm his opinions, or a person may simply look up the arguments after he has support the viewpoint of the other, but necessarily through argument.
Still, an itneresting discussion altogether.
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For the arguement that Jesus was just another prophet it would mean he was a man. Yet the qoran agrees that he was not a man, it accepts the virgin birth. Thereby stating he was something other than man. Therefore he can not be just another prophet.
The other problem is a misunderstanding of Jesus's message. His was not a one time mission, he himself states that he will return. Jesus had two missions for coming to earth. The first was so that death could be removed. He needed to die as a sacrifice so that we humans do not need to perform sacrifices. The whole aim of sacrifice in the OT is to purify the soul from the inherited sin. This was all part of the covenant between God and Man, however god was ending that covenant. But man was still born to sin, we have inherited sin from our forefathers. For that reason there needed to be a sacrifice, a big sacrifice, otherwise we would all be condemed to death. Jesus was that sacrifice, his death saved us from death.
But there is a second task for Jesus, one which will fulfill the Jewish Messiah idea. One that is told in revelations. Jesus will return again, to bring a kingdom over all the earth. God's kingdom that will last for 1000 years. At the end of that the earth will be destroyed and rebuilt without sin.
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Posted: 30-May-2009 at 03:16 |
The Quran accepts he was a man, virgin birth or not, I suggest you read up on things you argue a bit more next time.
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Jesus was the prince of peace in all religions, he never claim he was god only in the unity of God . john 18 let them know we are one I in you and you in me all be perfected into one.
The only problem I see is who got the dibs on what old rules of the bible man should follow . fantanic islam seems to treat their women with such disrepect and horror when it is the women that gives them life.
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Woman, mother of the universe,' in her lies the truth of creation. She is the foundation of all that is good and beautiful. She is the source of life and death. Upon her depends the existence of man, because she is the sustenance of his labors. She gives birth to you in travail, she watches over your growth. Bless her. Honor her. Defend her. Love your wives and honor them, because tomorrow they shall be mothers, and later-progenitors of a whole race. Their love ennobles man, soothes the embittered heart and tames the beast. Wife and mother-they are the adornments of the universe."
"As light divides itself from darkness, so does woman possess the gift to divide in man good intent from the thought of evil. Your best thoughts must belong to woman. Gather from them your moral strength, which you must possess to sustain your near ones. Do not humiliate her, for therein you will humiliate yourselves. And all which you will do to mother, to wife, to widow or to another woman in sorrow-that shall you also do for the Spirit."
Remember in luke when asked who`s wife will she be in heaven? there is no marriage only those that are worthy to be of the angels, so forget the seven virgins:)
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Posted: 30-May-2009 at 19:48 |
But he is not just a man, how can that be when he was created not born. As a result of that he must be something else, something supernatural.
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Posted: 30-May-2009 at 20:57 |
Originally posted by warwolf1969
But he is not just a man, how can that be when he was created not born. As a result of that he must be something else, something supernatural. |
Actually, the traditional Christian line (which is what I think you are trying to get at; please correct me if I am mistaken) is that Christ was begotten, not created. As such, he was born, both from all eternity of the Father, and at a specific point in time of the Virgin in his Incarnation.
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Originally posted by warwolf
The first was so that death could be removed. He needed to die as a sacrifice so that we humans do not need to perform sacrifices. The whole aim of sacrifice in the OT is to purify the soul from the inherited sin. This was all part of the covenant between God and Man, however god was ending that covenant. But man was still born to sin, we have inherited sin from our forefathers. For that reason there needed to be a sacrifice, a big sacrifice, otherwise we would all be condemed to death. Jesus was that sacrifice, his death saved us from death. |
We don't believe sin is inherited. Everyone is responsible only for their own actions. Nor do we believe that God's forgiveness is dependent on something dieing.
But he is not just a man, how can that be when he was created not born. As a result of that he must be something else, something supernatural. |
God created the whole universe, how hard is it for him to create one man?
But there is a second task for Jesus, one which will fulfill the Jewish Messiah idea. One that is told in revelations. Jesus will return again, to bring a kingdom over all the earth. God's kingdom that will last for 1000 years. At the end of that the earth will be destroyed and rebuilt without sin. |
Yep, al-Masih and al-Mahdi will throw everyone a party at the end of time. Lots of muslims believe that too.
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Posted: 04-Jun-2009 at 12:43 |
Hmmm...the premise for the whole discussion seems to be that there is a God. But is there really any convincing, unambiguous proof that there is a (or many) God???
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