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No gods matter (i.imgur.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

To me he was a prophet and probably a good dude.. but that's probably about it.

And you have stumbled upon the big difference between Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Jews already had a list of criteria for the messiah. Jesus didn’t check all of the boxes, so the Jews went “he’s not our messiah. We’ll keep waiting for the real one to show up.”

Christians believe he is the messiah; Literally God given flesh, so He can experience mortality and die for their sins.

Then the Muslims believe he was a prophet, but not the last prophet. They believe the last prophet was Muhammad. Jesus is featured pretty heavily in the Quran, because they do believe he was a prophet. But Muhammad said there would be no more prophets after himself, so anyone new claiming to be one is lying. (Worth noting that this “no new prophets” thing doesn’t negate Jesus’ second coming. Because Jesus wouldn’t be a new prophet, he would be a returning prophet.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He was NOT the Messiah! He was a very naughty boy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Muhammad out here gatekeeping prophets, it nice Muhammad. I think anyone can be whatever they want to, so long as they try hard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I mean, the Bible also discusses an anti-Christ as well. Jesus preached that there would be false prophets.

Almost as if starting a cult requires your followers to actively reject other belief systems.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

And then came Báb and Baháʼí was born.

It's turtles all the way down.