format_quote Originally Posted by
steve
Well that was my whole point. You say "if it contradicts the bible" But part of that bible is also by people who self declared to be... well maybe not prophets but at least inspired by the holy spirit. So basically you're saying the new guy has to say the same thing as the previous one, but how do you know the first one was right and the second not (if they are contradicting).
Or to speak more in general: how do you know all of them were right? I mean there's a difference in believeing in the inspiration of the holy spirit and in believeing that every single one of the autors from the bible were actually inspired right?
Greetings, Steve
Again, I think Islam and Christianity have a different view in this.
From what I understand Islam teaches that God gave the
same message to each of his prophets. When his message became distorted and changed he had to repeat it by giving it
again to the next prophet ... until he finally gave the
final version to Muhammed, which was eventually written down under much scrutiny, and thereby preserved. (Am I understanding that correctly?)
The Bible teaches differently.
Although Christianity and Islam share many prophets of the Old Testament, when you read the OT carefully, you find that God gave different messages to the different prophets.
He made
new convenants with each of them. With Adam, with Noah, with Abraham, with Moses he made a new covenant each time. (To go into this in more detail and with Bible quotes I requre more time than I have right now. I might have to comeback to this at a later stage ...)
The
final and complete covenant came with Jesus: salvation through God himself. It is foretold in the OT, and finally comes to be when Jesus dies and is resurrected!
There, at that point, ends God's revelation to us.
Jesus' life, his teachings, his sufferings and his death are God's final revelation to us!
Anything else following thereafter can only ever
build on God's final word.
Anything that doesn't (from a Christian's perspective) is fake and
not from God.
(Just as a Muslim would say that anything which contradicts the Qu'ran is not from God)
I hope this clarifies things a bit.
God bless you :)