Muslims

[Guest Paul]

Did Mohammad Come From God???

[Adeodatus]

Inasmuch as all created things are made by God and held by God in existence, Muhammad comes from God in this sense. He is a creature like everything else made and loved by God.

If you mean 'Was Muhammad a genuine prophet of God?', then for Christians he is not. The fullness of revelation is in Jesus Christ, God's Word-made-flesh. God revealing Himself to us is the highest you can go. Muhammad himself was a mere man, and the revelation he claimed to have from God does not agree at all points with Christian revelation. In fact, on some fundamental issues it is plainly incompatible. For example, in the Koran (Qur'an) the Christian Trinity is assumed to be God, Jesus and Mary--which is plainly not the case. Likewise the Koran is reluctant to concede that Jesus was killed, because in its view Jesus was a prophet of God, and God defends all His prophets. The crucifixion and death of Our Lord looks like an unacceptable failure. Here the Cross is a stumbling block for them.

Basically Islam and Judaism place great stress on their holy books, the Qur'an and Torah respectively. They call them the 'Word of God' and some of them even see these revelations as existing eternally with God in heaven. These books fill the place that Jesus takes in Christianity. Christians are not people of a book (not even the Bible!). Christianity is about a person, Jesus Christ. For us the revelation of God is God Himself, made man in Jesus Christ our Lord. No later prophet could ever claim to alter or refine the teachings and saving deeds of Christ.