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Nuru, in Exo.31:14, there was nothing to suggest your claim that the God of the Bible "forgets, regrets and gets tired." All it said was that the Israelites were to keep the Sabbath. Second, I don't see your point in quoting the Bible if you don't believe in it. If Jesus reiterated the doctrine of ONE God in Mark 12:29 by quoting Deut.6:4, would you also believe Him when He called God "Father" and "Abba" in [Mark 14:36]? If only you had been patient, you would have seen indeed that Jesus made reference to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - see Matt.28:19. Third, you finally made my point that Allah and the God of the Bible are not the same when you said...

nuru:

Surely, Allah does not sleep, he begets not, nor is He begotten. He is quite unlike the god in the Bible...

I have never believed the "Allah" of Islam and the God of the Bible were the same. You would do well to balance your views by not making selective quotes from the Bible: such an exercise would only confuse you the more. The whole tenor of the Bible is that there is ONE true and living God who loves everyone enough to reveal His mercy in Jesus Christ. I never read it in the Qur'an that Allah "loves" anyone, simply because he does not!

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Deut. 18:18 - Jesus or Mohammed?

Here are a few events to show that only Jesus Christ would have fulfilled the prophecy in Duet. 18:15,18.

1. Threat of death at Infancy:
At infancy, both Moses' and Jesus' lives were imperiled because the rulers of their day threatened to kill all male children among the Israelites: most other Israelite male children of their day and place of birth were murdered -

"And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every
daughter ye shall save alive." [Exo 1:22]

"Then Herod, ... was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and
in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired
of the wise men." [Mat 2:16]

2. Childhood:
Both Moses and Jesus spent their childhood in Egypt:

Of Moses: "And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son."
[Exo 2:10]

Of Jesus: "...behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the
young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will
seek the young child to destroy him." [Mat 2:13]

3. Rejection by the Israelites:
In offering salvation, Moses and Jesus were both initially rejected by the Israelites - their own people - even threatening to stone them:

Of Moses: "This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge?"
[Act 7:35] Moses cried out, "They be almost ready to stone me," [Exo.17:4]

Of Jesus: "But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this
man to reign over us." [Luk 19:14] "Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself,
and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by." [John 8:59]

4. Choosing disciples:
Is it not remarkable that both Moses and Jesus chose and appointed the same exact number of disciples?

Of Moses: "And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy
men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle." [Num 11:24] "And the
saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe." [Deut. 1:23]

Of Jesus: "And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth
to preach" [Mar 3:14] And again, "After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and
sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come."
[Luke 10:1].

5. Powerful miracles attesting their Mission:
Please note the similarities in the power and nature of their miracles -

"And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds."
[Act 7:22] "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go
back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided."
[Exo 14:21]

Of Jesus: "But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea
obey him!" [Mat 8:27] "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power:
who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him."
[Act 10:38]

I could mention more than a score more of the similarities between Moses and Jesus, and note well that Mohammed could not have fulfilled the Prophecy in Deut.18:18 in so far as he was an Arab and not an Israelite or Jew. Even in death, Mohammed did not die in the same way as Moses did. The point should be well carried that Mohammed was not mentioned in the Bible, not in the sense of the Prophet upon whom mankind was to look for salvation; and Moslems who try to force this interpretations into Biblical texts ought to know better.

I meant well,

M.

Deut. 18:18 - Jesus or Mohammed?

"I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him". [Deut. 18:18]

There's just a simple key to understanding who the Prophet in that verse is: nativity. If God had been addressing the Arabs in that verse, then we might have had reason to think Mohammed was inferred. However, understand that God was speaking to Moses - a non-Arab; and when He said "among their brethren", He clearly meant the Isrealites. In verse 15, the emphasis is unmistakable: God wants us to know He was addressing the Israelites, not Arabs -

"The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto
me; unto him ye shall hearken" [Deu 18:15]

So, who does this Prophecy point to? No doubt, it points to Jesus Christ. Jesus was not an Arab but a Jew. The Bible never said salvation would come by the Arabs; rather, salvation is of the Jews (John 4:24).

Second, the Prophet to come would be like unto Moses. In what ways were there similarities between Jesus and Moses? There are many things claimed in the life of Mohammed to suppose that he was like unto Moses. In my next post, I'll try to show some unmistakable imprints as to how Mohammed could not have been the Prophet spoken of in Deut. 18:15, 18.

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