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Jesus and Moses had Unique Characteristics:
Moses and Jesus were both supposed to be killed as Infants
Moses was learned of all the wisdom of Egypt, Jesus was also very wise having the fullness of wisdom
Moses was a miracle worker ... Jesus also was a miracle worker
Moses was a leader ... Jesus was also a leader
Moses fasted for 40 days ... Jesus also fasted for exactly 40 days (in the wilderness)
Moses was a Deliverer of his People ... Jesus also was a deliverer and Saviour for his people
Moses was Jewish ... Jesus was Jewish
Moses and Jesus have some unique Characteristics ... Deuteronomy 18 or any of the Bible does not prophecy Muhammed.
Below Is From ...
http://www.worthyinsights.com/features/ ... moses.html
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The Test of Muhammad as the Prophet Like unto Moses
Using the five criteria of Moses being a special prophet, let's test the Muslim's claim that Muhammad is the special prophet like Moses which the Koran claims.
1. God spoke directly with Moses. Muhammad fails because the Koran shows he received his message from an angel. "Then I swear by the angels who bring down the revelation" (Sura 77:5). "Say: Whoever is the enemy of Jibreel— for surely he revealed it to your heart by Allah's command, verifying that which is before it and guidance and good news for the believers" (Sura 2:97).
2. The Koran never reported that Muhammad was literally in the direct presence of God.
3. Muhammad never brought in a blood covenant with God, but his message went directly against the revealed word of God. Muhammad denied the basis for the New Testament covenant which is the death of the Lord Jesus on the cross. "And their saying: Surely we have killed the Messiah, Isa (Jesus) son of Marium, the apostle of Allah; and they did not kill him nor did they crucify him, but it appeared to them so" (Sura 4:157).
4. The Koran reports no signs and wonders of Muhammad.
5. Muhammad made no prophecies in the Koran. The Muslims call Sura 30 the Great Prophecy: This Sura is often used as proof Muhammad was a prophet. "The Romans are vanquished, In a near land, and they, after being vanquished, shall overcome, Within a few years. Allah's is the command before and after; and on that day the believers shall rejoice" (Sura 30:2-4).
Sura 30 is not a valid prophecy: The Romans, who were the Byzantines, were always at war. A near land is not identified. The location to judge the near land is not identified in the Koran. Is it Jerusalem, Mecca, or Medina etc.? What is a few years? No date is give for this prophecy so within a few years can be identified. The fulfillment is not recorded in the Koran. It is impossible to verify that Sura 30:2-4 is a valid prophecy.
6. Muhammad was not a Jew. This just by itself eliminates Muhammad from being the Prophet of Deuteronomy 18:18.
Muhammad fails the test of prophet in general and specifically he is not the prophet like unto Moses. Therefore his message as written in the Koran is to be totally rejected. He cannot be classified as a prophet because he made no prophecy which could be tested. The Muslim's claim that Muhammad is the seal of the prophets has no authority as there is no proof in the Koran that Muhammad was a true prophet of God.
The Lord Jesus Meets the Criteria To Be the Prophet Like Unto Moses
The Bible says that the Lord Jesus is the Prophet like unto Moses. "And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: . . . For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people (Acts 3:20,22-23).
1. God spoke directly to Moses. God spoke directly through the Lord Jesus. "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works" (John 14:10).
2. Moses was in the direct presence of God and glowed from God's presence. Jesus was the direct presence of God, and He manifested the glory of God! "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light" (Matt. 17:1-2).
3. Moses brought in a blood covenant relationship with God. The Lord Jesus brought in a better blood covenant with God. The better covenant gives the assurance of eternal life to all that believe. "For this is my blood of the new testament [covenant],
which is shed for many for the remission of sins" (Matt. 26:28). "But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises" (Heb. 8:6).
4. Moses did mighty signs and wonders. Jesus did mighty signs and wonders. The Lord Jesus raised a man from the dead after he was four days in the grave. The Bible reported only a few of the awesome miracles that the Lord Jesus did. These miracles were a sign of Him being the Son of God. "Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. ... And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go" (John 11:39,43-44).
5. Moses prophesied of the future, as did Jesus. Like Moses, the Lord Jesus focused His prophecy on the Jews and their dispersion and restoration. The restoration of Israel and Jerusalem would occur just before His second coming. Just as the Lord prophesied, exactly happened to the Jews. Israel is once again a nation with Jerusalem as its capital. "And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? . . . But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land [Israel], and wrath upon this people [Jews]. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled" (Luke 21:7,23-24).
6. Moses was a Jew and the Lord Jesus was a Jew.
Matthew 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. The Lord Jesus qualifies to be the Prophet because He is the Son of David from the tribe of Judah.
Jesus and Moses were both Jews..true but so were Solomon, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Malachi, John the Baptist. Most of them were leaders and prophets too with great wisdwom.
According to you, Jesus was God. Was Moses God?..NO
Jesus died for the sins of the world. Did Moses died for the sins...NO
Jesus went to Hell for three days. Did Moses go...NO
Now, lets look at some similarities between Moses and Muhammad:
- Moses had a father and a mother. Muhummed also had a father and a
mother. But Jesus had only a mother, and no human father.
- Moses and Muhummed were born in the normal, natural course, i.e.the
physical association of man and woman; but Jesus was created by a specia
miracle. You will recall that we are told in the Gospel of St.Matthew
1:18".....BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER,(Joseph the Carpenter and Mary) SHE
WAS FOUND WITH CHILD BY THE HOLY GHOST.' And St.Luke tells us that when
the good news of the birth of a holy son was announded to her, Mary
reasoned:'.......HOW SHALL THIS BE, SEEING I KNOW NOT A MAN? AND THE
ANGEL ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HER, THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON THEE,
AND THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST SHALL OVERSHADOW THEE:......'(Luke 1:35).
The Holy Qur'an confirms the miraculous birth of Jesus, in nobler and
sublimer terms. In answer to her logical question:
" O MY LORD! HOW SHALL I HAVE A SON WHEN NO MAN HATH TOUCHED ME? "
The angel says in reply:
"EVEN SO:
ALLAH CREATETH WHAT HE WILLETH:
WHEN HE HATH DECREED A PLAN,
HE BUT SAITH TO IT "BE,"
AND IT IS " (9) (HOLY QUR'AN, 3:47).
It is not necessary for God to plant a seed in man or animal. He
merely wills it and it comes into being. This is the Muslim conception f the
of birth of Jesus .
- Moses and Muhummed married and begat children, but Jesus remained a
bachelor all his life.
- Moses and Muhummed were accepted as prophets by their people in
their very lifetime. No doubt the Jews gave endless trouble to Moses and
they murmured in the wilderness, but as a nation, they acknowledged that
Moses was a Messenger of God sent to them. The Arabs too made Muhummed's
life impossible. He suffered very badly at their hands. After 13 years o
preaching in Mecca, he had to emigrate from the city of his birth. But
before his demise, the Arab nation as a whole accepted him as the
Messenger of Allah. But according to the Bible- 'He (Jesus) CAME UNTO
HIS OWN, BUT HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT.' (John 1:11). And even today,
after two thousand years, his people- the Jews, as a whole, have rejeted
him.
- Moses and Muhummed brought new laws and new regulations for their
people. Moses not only gave the Ten Commandments to the Israelites, but
a very comprehensive ceremonial law for the guidance of his people. Muhu
mmed comes to a people steeped in barbarism and ignorance. They married
their step-mothers; they buried their daughters alive; drunkenness, adul
tery, idolatry, and gambling were the order of the day. Gibbon describe
the Arabs before Islam in his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", TH
HUMAN BRUTE, ALMOST WITHOUT SENSE, IS POORLY DISTINGUISHED FROM THE REST
OF THE ANIMAL CREATION.'There was hardly anything to distinguish between
the "man" and the "animal" of the time; they were animals in human form
"From this abject barbarism, Muhummed elevated them, in the words of
Thomas Carlysle, 'into torch-bearers of light and learning.' 'TO THE ARA
NATION IT WAS AS A BIRTH FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT. ARABIA FIRST BECAME
ALIVE BY MEANS OF IT. A POOR SHEPHERD PEOPLE, ROAMING UNNOTICED IN ITS
DESERTS SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. SEE, THE UNNOTICED BECOMES WORL
NOTABLE, THE SMALL HAS GROWN WORLD-GREAT. WITHIN ONE CENTURY AFTERWARDS
ARABIA WAS AT GRANADA ON ONE HAND AND AT DELHI ON THE OTHER. GLANCING IN
VALOUR AND SPLENDOUR, AND THE LIGHT OF GENIUS, ARABIA SHINES OVER A GREA
SECTION OF THE WORLD....'The fact is that Muhummed gave his people a Law
and Order they never had before.
"As regards Jesus, when the Jews felt suspicious of him that he might be
an imposter with designs to pervert their teachings, Jesus took pains to
assure them that he had not come with a new religion - no new laws and n
new regulations. I quote his own words: 'THINK NOT THAT IAM COME TO DES-
TROY THE LAW, OR THE PROPHETS: IAM NOT COME TO DESTROY, BUT TO FULFIL.
FOR VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS, ONE JOT OR ONE
TITLE SHALL IN NO WISE PASS FROM THE LAW, TILL ALL BE FULFILLED.'(Mathew
5:17-18). In other words he had not come with any new laws or regulation
he came only to fulfil the old law. This what he gave the Jews to under-
stand- unless he was speaking with the tongue in his cheek trying to
bluff the Jews into accepting him as a man of God and by subterfuge try-
ing to ram a new religion down their throats. No! This Messenger of God
would never resort to such foul means to subvert the Religion of God. He
himself fulfilled the laws. He observed the commandments of Moses,and he
respected the Sabbath. At no time did a single Jew point a finger at him
to say,'why don't you fast' or 'why don't you wash your hands before you
break bread',which charges they alwasy levied against his disciples, but
never against Jesus. This is because as a good Jew he honoured the laws
of the prophets who preceded him. In short, he had created no new reli-
gion and had brought no new law like Moses and Muhummed.
- Both Moses and Muhummed died natural deaths, but according to Chris
tianity, Jesus was violently killed on the cross.
- Moses and Muhummed both lie buried in earth, but according to you,
Jesus in heaven.