whoooahh! too much going on here
Shafique, before I reply to your post..I read it twice and was a bit incredulous at your replies so I'm wondering 'what's the point, if this isn't really a debate'. About the Hebrew prophets, I'm not getting you. You know their stories I assume, you know that they were HUMAN (hence no human is perfect no matter what) so I don't understand what you mean when you say they didn't sin. All humans sin, it's human nature to sin. Now degrees of sin, that's another thing, lying is perhaps the most common, murder the worst (with exceptions perhaps, like justified war, self-defense, etc.). But anyway, even those spiritually privileged offended God and were punished. David lost his son, Moses didn't get to see his promised land. And the striking of the rock was an extremely symbolic gesture instead of "talking" to it, he struck it - God said, hey I've forgiven you before but you continue to sin, you see how you are. Miriam got punished for questioning the motives of Moses and possibly for being prejudiced against a black women - Miriam's got a skin disease for 7 days! The point is: God did not tolerate offenses. Where do you get that he did? Or perhaps, it's something that your faith doesn't
acknowledge? because then the logical question would be, why wasn't Mohammad punished? So it's best not to acknowledge that God punished....that's what it seems.
Don't you think the Jews would be better at writing about their lineage of prophets much better than any other group that came much after them?
Re: deuteronomy, I just can't fathom how anyone can extract an Islamic prophet from the book of Deuteronomy - the "Children of Israel" book.
Is the entire book - it's history and its translation taken into account by Muslims? If so, is Moses' reference to Jesus and the tribes of Israel completely ignored?
EDIT: off the subject a bit, but I just read:
talking about a hadith, where muhammad said, if you masturbate, its like you "nakah't omak" - or "had s.e.x with your mum"
is it true?