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He did not want to announce his identity right away.
When Jesus was casting out demons, “He would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was” (Mark 1:34 NIV). Mark makes it explicit: Jesus wanted to keep his identity a secret for a time.2
He wants to keep it secret.
they began to plot how they might kill him (Mark 3:6), but Jesus did not want to be killed until it was the right time.
“the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again” (8:31 NIV).4
Why he kept his identity secret.
the one time in the Gospels that Jesus publicly claimed to be the Messiah was the same time he publicly claimed to be God.
Mark 1:1 identifies Jesus as the Son of God;6 Mark 1:11 shows God himself declaring that Jesus is his Son; verse 3:11 shows a demon declaring Jesus is the Son of God. By showing spiritual beings declaring Jesus’ sonship,
Messianic Secret will be revealed, when Jesus will tell everyone who he really is, tying together all his words and deeds. This makes 14:62,
It is there that Jesus claims to be the divine Son of Man from Daniel 7 and the One sitting on the throne of God from Psalm 110:1.
Son of man and sitting in the throne in heaven
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The title “Son of Man” is used more than eighty times in the four gospels, almost always by Jesus himself, in multiple settings.7 Scholars are confident that Jesus actually used this phrase for himself because there was no widespread expectation that the Messiah would be the Son of Man.
Psalm 110:1 is that Jesus himself taught and proclaimed that he is the one sitting at the right hand of the Power, worthy to rule the universe with the Father.
All four gospels teach that Jesus is divine, and even before they were written, Christians had firmly established God’s incarnation as the core of their faith.
The very first Christians believed that Jesus is God, including the disciples themselves. How could the disciples have concluded this, especially considering the Jewish emphasis on monotheism and on worshiping God alone?
the historical evidence for Christianity is very strong: Jesus claimed to be God, and he proved it by rising from the dead. The case for Christianity is powerful.
Jesus considers himself able to forgive sins, receive worship, heal people in his own authority, demand the honor that is due to God, hear and answer prayers, ransom mankind by his death, and exist even before Abraham was born. But Jesus also commended people who called him God (John 20:28), claimed to be the king of another realm (John 18:36–37), descended from heaven (John 3:13), and claims to be the judge on the day of judgment (John 5:22–23). Such teachings are not just found in John’s gospel; the Synoptic Gospels agree that Jesus is the king over an eternal kingdom (Matt. 25:34), that he
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Islam requires us to believe that Jesus was so incompetent as a teacher and prophet that he was not able to instill this most simple fact in his followers’ minds: that he was merely a human.
Islam teaches that the disciples were godly men, but the entire body of evidence testifies that the proclamation of the early church was the death and resurrection of Jesus—something Islam denies.
saved Jesus from the cross while making it look like Jesus died, as most Muslims believe, then Allah is responsible for the disciples’ proclamation of Jesus’ death and resurrection.
Quran tells us that people who believe Jesus is God will go to hell (5.72).
Christians will go to hell
there is absolutely no record of a disciple who preached anything other than the death and resurrection of Jesus.
If Allah saved Jesus from the cross and did not inform the disciples, he is a deceptive God who is responsible for the damnation of billions.
The historical records are incredibly vast, including dozens of sources from dozens of authors—Christian, Jewish, and Graeco-Roman alike. Could
Scholars are virtually unanimous that Jesus died on the cross, that the early church believed he rose from the dead, and that the earliest Christians believed he was superhuman, even divine.
Christians had good historical reason to believe in their faith.
Prophet from among their brethren,
Deut 18:19-19
this passage, God is addressing Moses, saying a prophet like Moses will come, one who will come from among the brethren of the Jews and speak in the name of God.
“from among their brethren,” that is, the brethren of the Jews.
“He intended several times to throw himself from the tops of high mountains and every time he went up the top of a mountain in order to throw himself down,” an angel would appear to him and urge him not to kill himself.
Suicidal
He said that fighting is literally the best thing in the world.
Fighting is the best thing in the world - Muhamad
He punished some enemies by cutting off their hands and feet, branding their eyes with a heated iron, and causing them to lick the dust until they died.16 He led battles against unarmed cities.17 He allowed even women and children to be killed during nighttime raids.18 On more than one occasion, Muhammad decimated tribes by killing all their men and teenage boys while distributing their women and children as slaves.
What muhammad did.
“I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim.”21
Expelling jews and Christians
In assessing Muhammad’s character, we have considered only two matters in any depth: the beginning of his ministry and his teachings regarding warfare. These alone are enough to question Muhammad’s character and prophethood, but in case more is needed, there is much, much more that skeptics commonly bring to the table, such as concerns about his spiritual aptitude, his teachings about women, his troubling theological teachings, his incorrect understandings of Judaism and Christianity, his unfulfilled prophecies, his commands to perform idolatrous rites, and his special allowances for himself.
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Why mohhamad is not a prophet
A common problem with the way we handled them, though, was that we tried to make the text conform to our expectation. Instead of understanding what the words meant and what they intended to convey, we did our best to read them as prophecies about Muhammad.
Prophesies about muhammad
In Deuteronomy 17:15, the Bible says, “You shall set over yourselves a king whom Yahweh your God chooses, from among your brethren. You shall not set a foreigner over yourselves, who is not your brother.”
A foreigner cannot be a prophet over Israel
This is why the text says about the Spirit of truth, “The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you” (John 14:17 NIV).
He lives in us.
Muhammad teaches that flies carry diseases on one wing and antidotes on the other,36 that cumin heals all diseases,37 and that camel urine cures stomach aches.
Muhammad's false scientific claims
Although Muhammad gave plenty of moral teachings and exhibited merciful and peaceful character at times, there are many other accounts of Muhammad’s brutality and exultation in war, his spiritual shortcomings, and his troubling treatment of women, among other concerns.
Muhammad's prophethood
The most trustworthy hadith are ultimately graded sahih, which means “true” or “authentic,”
no one wrote a biography of Muhammad’s life until about 140 years after Muhammad died.
140 years after
Ibn Hisham tells us in his introductory remarks: “Things which it is disgraceful to discuss, matters which would distress certain people, and such reports as al-Bakkai told me he could not accept as trustworthy—all these things I have omitted.”1 In other words, the earliest biography of Muhammad’s life was reputed to contain fabrications, disgraceful material, and distressing facts.2 What we have today has been filtered many times, both for fabrications and for difficult truths.
Fabrication on the accounts of Muhammad's life.
3 he ordered the assassination of an old man who had composed poetry complaining about Muhammad;4 a woman lamented the old man’s death in poetry, so Muhammad ordered her assassination, and her blood splattered on her children as she breastfed;
He ordered people to be killed
http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2014/04/50-reasons-muhammad-was-not-prophet.html.
