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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It feels to Jews and Christians as though Islam wants to co-opt their religions and present itself as the ultimate form of monotheism. They don't accept that, especially given the massive differences among the three religions, as PP pointed out. A good parallel is with the Bahais and their prophet: do you accept that this is the perfection of all monotheistic religions including Islam? I didn't think so.[/quote]

I think the Bahais an apt comparison.

For the Semitic religions, we have the Jews, who had a succession of prophets.  Jesus came and there were some who saw him a another prophet--I believe this is the premise of the Jews for Jesus.  Had he been accepted as a prophet, Judaism would just have incorporated his message as it had incorporated the message of prophets before him.

But the Christians insist that Jesus is not a prophet, but rather the incarnation of God, appearing on earth to send a message not just to Jews, but to gentiles as well.  Not surprisingly, many Jews did not embrace this view.

In a sense, Jesus was the seal of the prophets by virtue of his Godhood.  This did not leave room for another prophet to be incorporated into Christianity.

Islam views Muhammed as the seal of the prophets and Jesus as the immediately previous prophet.  Under Judaism there technically was room for another prophet, but even if they were inclined to embrace Muhammed, that would require embracing Jesus as prophet as well, something that had been rejected by almost all Jews.

Since Muhammed is the seal, there is no room in Islam for other prophets, so those claiming there is one like the Bahais are said to be heretical Muslims.

Note that Christianity could be considered heretical Judaism, and Islam either heretical Judaism or heretical Christianity. One could perhaps say that Islam is much more heretical to Christianity than to Judaism as the latter is theoretically open to additional prophets but the former is not.

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I was thinking this when I wrote about the Bahais; you spelled it out![/quote]

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