Basic Islamic Questions

I am merely trying to resolve differences between different revelations which appear to be in conflict.

I don't think anyone would say that we should accept it as truth when anyone claims to be the "Prophet of God."

How do we seperate the false from the true?

StephenC wrote: "Please give the requirements for proof of prophethood." Good question.  Maybe there is no proof of prophethood.  Anyone that wants to claim a revelation can.  So do we accept all who claim to be prophets?

Rhetorical question. What I am trying to establish is a criteria that satisfies you. You do not believe someone was a prophet, so who do you believe was a prophet and what is the evidence?

Okay.  There is just as much proof of Muhammad being a prophet as there is for Joseph Smith.

I am not here to argue for or against Joseph Smith. Lets stay on topic. What proof is there that Prophet MUhammad (saw) was not a prophet?

Your attempt to at continuously trying to mix Joseph Smith into this discussion relfects masterful obfuscation.

Wait, didn't Muhammad claim to be the last prophet?  If that is true then Smith is a false prophet.  If Smith is a true prophet then Muhammad's claim to be the last prophet.

Yes.

And is Jesus' statement in Revelation 22:18-21 is true then both Muhammad and Smith are wrong.

The book of revelation is an extremely cryptic writing that has no real relavence. The early Christians were mixed about its importance, and the Church has never been able to give an accurate interpretation due to its extreme use of obscure symbols and extremely implicit statements.

So the question is begged: Why should anyone care what revelations says?

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So how do we tell a true prophet from a false prophet?

I ask again (hoping to get an answer) how do we know that Muhammad was visited by the Angel Gabriel?

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How juvenile. I asked you to give me a criteria for prophethood.

1) Prophets will not lie about matters of Gd, revelation, and what Gd has said.

2) If Prophet Muhammad was a prophet, then he would not have lied about matters of Gd, revelation, and what Gd said.

3) Being a Prophet and lying about an event as described above are mutally exclusive. One cannot exist with the other.

4) You want to know how do we know he was a prophet.

5) I asked you, since you do not believe he was, what is the criteria is to believe someone is a prophet.

6) You proposed a rhetorical question as a strawman to remove yourself from the point.

7) Now you want to know how we can know if the Prophet (saw) was really visted by an angel.

But if someone is a prophet, he would not have lied, and if he were wrong, Gd would have told him. So we are back to the foundation: Proof of Prophethood which deflected from.

Since you cannot tell me what your criteria is to accept a person as a prophet, then you have no solid ground to reject someone as a prophet.

With all due respect, your behavior is entirely fallacious. You have just moved in a circle, while trying very hard to avoid being directly involved with exposing your own beliefs and reasons for your beliefs, which are directly related and relevant to your skepticism. Your slight of hand sophistry and great effort in avoiding a direct discussion spells out "evangelical".

I asked you who you think is a prophet, and you have given me silence.

You cannot blame me for now having skepticism about you, as your behavior thus far has been less than rhetorically honest.

I have not said anyone is NOT a prophet.  I have merely said we should ask for some kind of proof that a person is a true prophet from God and not some Jim Bakker (of Jim and Tammy Bakker) type of prophet.  There have been many false prophets claiming to be speaking from God.

I have pointed out that Smith and Muhammad both claim the same thing and are believed by millions to be a prophet from God, yet some of their statements are contradictary.

If I claimed to be a prophet from God would you accept that or would you demand proof?

I was told it was not blind faith.  Ok, why do you think that Muhammad is the last prophet from God?  Is it just because he said so?

You, Muhammad, and millions of others claim he was the last prophet of God.  There are millions more that claim he was not.  Do we take a worldwide vote on it?

I just want a verifiable fact that he is the Last Prophet.  That is no word game.  I do find problems with the history of Muhammad as published by IslamiCity.com.  But I am trying to be opened minded about it.

One thing other than 'he said he was' is all I am asking.  Is Islam so weak that such a question is so difficult?