Jesus, Mohammed and Moses and the Middle East

[frog3]

I've always wanted to ask the respective followers of these cults why did all these prophets reveal themselves in this area? Why not say, send a prophet and a book to Japan and one to the meso americas?

And why did your gods only give the holy scripture in one language?

 

[Babbler]

God likes deserts better than forests.

 

[GenMarshall]

For starters, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are not cults. They are religions.

 

[Red Door]

They all derive from one another with the same God. They all have different understandings of this same God.

 

[Cutlass]

Those three happen to have the same roots and are related. Every other location on earth came up with different religions.

 

[Lillefix]

For starters, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are not cults. They are religions.

Depends on where you live.

 

[frog3]

Those three happen to have the same roots and are related. Every other location on earth came up with different religions.

Yeah, but what is their divine reason for this.

 

[Lillefix]

Yeah, but what is their divine reason for this.

That I think is simply a coincindence.

 

[bhsup]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=224203

 

[frog3]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=224203

Please don't sabotage my thread

That I think is simply a coincindence.

A coincidence that the savior / prophet of mankind of the one true religion happened to be where THEY lived and in THEIR language?

Surely not!?!?!?

 

[Lillefix]

A coincidence that the savior / prophet of mankind of the one true religion happened to be where THEY lived and in THEIR language?

No of course not. My point was that all three religions are related and therefore had to come about in a place where the related religions already were strong. And this happened to be in the middle east. As someone else pointed out, mormonism and countless other less important cults have come about in America in later times. It's predictable coincindence that christianity and islam came about in the middle east.

Of course, I get the point you are trying to make. And forget it, I urge you to just forget it. Religious people simply don't get it.

 

[frog3]

Yep, but I wonder what their answer will be.

It's hard to forget when they are around you everyday shoving their stupid rhetoric down your throat.

 

[bhsup]

Please don't sabotage my thread

I did nothing of the sort. Did you even click on the link to that thread to find out what it was?

 

[ohcrapitsnico]

I've always wanted to ask the respective followers of these cults why did all these prophets reveal themselves in this area? Why not say, send a prophet and a book to Japan and one to the meso americas?

And why did your gods only give the holy scripture in one language?

Islam wasn't directed at one people and is certainly not exclusive. It ceratinly isn't meant to save the Arabs and act as solace since the Jews and Christians got their own prophet(s). The Qu'ran had to be given in a language and it remains in Arabic so that nothing is lost in translation which the Bible suffers from. Something had to come out of that Arabian wasteland.

 

[frog3]

yeah but why didn't god send a prophet of islam to every language in the world? Why Arabic specifically? Are Arabs more important than the chinese?

 

[Nylan]

Israel --> "chosen people" ring a bell? They certainly weren't better people simply because they were Israelites, if that's what you'd assume.

 

[frog3]

oh so god chose them because he liked their beards?

 

[Nylan]

Is that seriously what you think or are you just fishing?

Fail.

 

[frog3]

Well that's probably why I would choose them if I were a God, since that is the only redeeming feature I can think of about them.

Why else would they be chosen?

Being the Isralites is not a reason to be chosen

 

[Nylan]

Well that's probably why I would choose them if I were a God, since that is the only redeeming feature I can think of about them.

Why else would they be chosen?

Descendants of Abraham, who was chosen to receive the promised land because of his righteousness, and as such earned a blessing upon his children so long as they were righteous?