4 reasons why MUHAMMAD cannot be a TRUE PROPHET (in 6 minutes)!

Muslims always claim that Muhammad is a legitimate Prophet, who deserves to be in the Prophetic line; but do we agree as Christians? To answer that Jay points to 4 areas which every Biblical prophet must fulfill in order to be considered a legitimate prophet, which include: 1) A PROPHET MUST BE BORN IN THE PROPHETIC RACE To begin with, a prophet must be born within the line or race of the prophets. The Bible speaks specifically what this line is.  In Genesis 12:1-3, we see that this refers to the family of Abraham (see also Galatians 3:8), and then carries on through his son Isaac (Genesis 17:2,7-8,15-21; 21:10-12; 22:2,12,16).  The Qur'an, in Sura Al `Ankabut 29:27, also speaks specifically of this prophetic line, saying: "and we bestowed on him Isaac and Jacob, and We establish the Prophet-hood and the Scripture among his seed" (also Sura Al Jathiyah 45:16). As we continue on in Genesis 25:23,31-33; 26:1-2 we find that the alliance passes to Jacob, who is subsequently named Israel (also Genesis 28:13-15; 32:28).  Further on, in Genesis 49:1-4,8-10, this alliance passes on to Judah. In fact, as we continue throughout the Old Testament we find that God's work on earth runs uniquely through the line of Isaac and Jacob.  It is their lineage alone that God uses for His work on earth.  Even in the Deuteronomy 18 where Moses promises a prophet like unto him, it says specifically that the prophet would come "from among your own brothers," an Israelite of the line of Jacob (see Deut.17:15 to know who a ‘brother’ is).             Continuing this theme further we read in 2 Samuel 7:4-16 and Psalms 89:35-38 that God's alliance with humanity passes to David, and is finally fulfilled in Jesus Christ 1,000 years later (see Matthew 22:42). Nowhere in any of those passages do we find any other line mentioned or acknowledged as being chosen for the office of prophet-hood. 2) A PROPHET'S MESSAGE MUST CONFORM TO PREVIOUS REVELATION A second qualification of a prophet concerns his message. A prophet's message, in order to be credible, must conform to the revelation which God had revealed before. God's word must remain consistent, in other words unchanging, otherwise it becomes useless, a tool in the hands of corrupt rulers and would-be prophets, bending and swaying with the whim of succeeding generations. Most of the major doctrines in the Bible are refuted and contradicted by the Qur'an, to say nothing of the many stories concerning Biblical figures which don't correlate at all with the Biblical stories of those same characters. 3) A PROPHET'S PREDICTIONS MUST BE VERIFIABLE So, which predictions did Muhammad say which are verifiable? Muhammad predicted the victory of Islam in the battles which were fought in Arabia, yet, there are no other precise predictions which we know of which demonstrate that his authority came from God (the victory of a battle has a 50-50 chance of being correct, or not).  In fact, this was a cause for concern even for Muhammad, who, numerous times in the Qur'an mentions the distrust by others of his inability to produce a miraculous sign which would substantiate his authority (see Suras 10:20, 13:7 & 13:27). 4) A PROPHET MUST SPEAK IN THE NAME OF GOD Did Muhammad speak in the name of God, using that name which God gave as a signature for His authority, the name Yahweh?  Though the term YHWH was used 6,823 times in the Bible, it is not used once in the Qur'an, and perhaps was not even known by Muhammad, since if he was supposedly illiterate in his own language, Arabic, it is hardly likely that he would have been able to read Hebrew. Yet, is it not curious that Muhammad, the "seal of the prophets," he who was commissioned to bring the `final revelation' did not even know the name of the God by whom he was commissioned? Is it not also curious that the God of Abraham, Isaac, Moses and David would go to the trouble of revealing His unique name in the Hebrew language, which was then passed down from generation to generation, up to the present day, yet somehow this name was forgotten or never revealed in the language which Muhammad claimed was God's special language, Arabic? There is little evidence from our scriptures which show that Muhammad had authority to claim prophet-hood.  He was not born into the line of Jacob, nor did he speak in the name of Yahweh, nor did his revelations conform to the message which preceded him, and his predictions were not verifiable. For these 4 reasons, we would have to reject Muhammad as a legitimate prophet of God. © Pfander Centre for Apologetics & Polemics - US, September 27, 2024 (110,580)