This final speech by Joyce will live rent free in my head for a very long time!
Enjoy 😎
“Things could have ended differently for you and me. But you thought it best to be a smart-arse. You motherfucker.”
I have been studying the Bahá’í faith for a few months now consistently almost everyday reading.
I just can’t be can’t accept that Mohammed was sent by God. This is coming from the earliest scripture’s descriptions of how angels approach prophets, how God reveals Himself to them and their characteristics of a prophet.
I may start a new thread to describe the characteristics of a true prophet from God. but basically Mohammed fails in a bunch of criteria; I will highlight two.
1
the way he was approached. angels when they approach humans the first thing they do is reassure them, calm them down because they know they are terrifying to us and when Mohammed was approached he was pinned down. He was scared but that angel still insisted that he does something he wasn’t able to do. I don’t want to get so much into this and attract unnecessary discussions with apologetics. but from the scripture of God, angels have a standard way of approaching humans basically .
So that’s 1
2
A prophet will be known by their actions. I believe Baha’u’llah was a true prophet because of his actions.
- He preached and practiced peace and justice and love and unity.
- The fruit of his actions have been so good. I feel so peaceful reading his words.
- I’ve seen investigated his prophecies and they have come(and continue to) come true.
evidenced by contemporary history;
things he wrote way before happened after his death. With precision and that is why I accept him as a prophet
so this is a dilemma for me. The Bahá’í teachings recognise Mohammed as a prophet but I can’t, I can’t reconcile Mohammed’s inconsistencies with the previous scripture on top of failing the criteria of a prophet.
and none of his prophecies have come true that disqualifies him from being a prophet (imo) so that is that dilemma I have with the Bahá’í faith I make sense of a lot of of what I’ve read and I’ve read a lot over the past few months but I can’t reconcile that aspect of recognising Mohammed as a prophet
that is my dilemma.
DISCLAIMER: I do not wish for this discussion to become apologetic. If you want to do battle apologetics, go to apologetic TikTok and apologetic Twitter and apologetic YouTube or apologetic reddit. I just want Bahá’ís to help me with this dilemma.