There is absolutely no doubt that Muhammad** did not claim to be a god, he claimed to be only a prophet/messenger** of G-d*, and that he certainly was, else G-d* would have caught him from his neck and caused him to be killed. Right, please?
Muhammad was rather the last prophet/messenger of G-d* in status. Right, please?
Every prophet is the last prophet until the next one comes along.
Who were these many messengers you refer to who trained a nation or people, causing it to rise from the lowest depths of ignorance to the highest station of knowledge?
Anyone who took over or created a country. That's a pretty long list, even if you filter out all the countries that did NOT want their people to be raised out of ignorance.
What did they get for themselves besides persecution, tribulation and suffering?
Lots of people hanging onto their every word, even after death. People who are attention-seeking LOVE that kind of thing. Are you not expected to follow him despite the fact that over a century has passed and we need help NOW?
Why listen to dead prophets/messengers when there are tons of people trying to raise people out of ignorance NOW?
God does not leave us to ourselves but provides us with the guidance for the age we live in.
Then every generation would have at least one messenger, not one messenger per every few centuries or whatever.
This kind of thing happens when you place all of your eggs into a basket hundreds if not thousands of years old.
Desperately clinging to old texts for modern guidance is like thinking the world is going to end because some Mayans ran out of room drawing their calendar.
To close a canon is to invite slavery to ignorance. If God is everlasting, so too should be the messages.
"Some were guided by the Light of God, gained admittance into the court of His presence, and quaffed, from the hand of resignation, the waters of everlasting life, and were accounted of them that have truly recognized and believed in Him. Others rebelled against Him, and rejected the signs of God, the Most Powerful, the Almighty, the All-Wise.”
Whenever there is decay of righteousness, O Bharata,
And there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I Myself come forth ;
For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers,
For the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age.
And didn't Krishna get killed (eventually) and the entire kingdom fall because, as Gandhari noted, Krishna was manipulating the entire drama? I mean, sure, the people had obvious roles to play, but once Krishna enters the story, it's abundantly clear He was jerking their chains for "reasons". Now, I love Krishna and find Him to be a much better God-man than Jesus. However, He's not any less of a jerk sometimes.
Deception by whom, Muhammad? What would have been His motive?
An orphan without much place in society wanted out of that life? No, it cannot be! [/sarcasm]
We have all the power to become like Jesus and get Self Realized.
Indeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg's_stages_of_moral_development
So, as long as people enjoy and watch aggression on TV and films [these types are watched 100 times more than spiritual/nature films]
To be fair, the US has some (ahem) God-awful spiritual films. Plus, any set of movies based on the bible would be for mature audiences only, because a LOT of dark stuff happens in it.
Positive stories don't sell.
Given that positive stories can go viral as well, I'm calling BS on what the media uses as an excuse.
That is reality. Even reality TV loves to show fights, emotional upsets, naked women/men having sex, for all to watch. And adultery sells best on TV.
Which is also probably why religious texts are filled with it too.
Messenger: The Lord sayeth sex is bad.
Audience: All sex?
Messenger: Certain sex.
Audience: Can you describe? Like, in detail? Make sure not to miss anything.
Good news "it lasts only 400.000 years". Bad news "5000 years have passed".
LOL. I think the only thing stopping me from being a Hindu is the need for absurdly large numbers
But Advaita teaches good news also. Everyone can attain Nirvana, Enlightenment NOW. No need to wait for Jesus to return or anyone else.
Yep. If Jesus can't be bothered to clock in, then the rest of us have to do the job ourselves.
I rather hear the truth. Sai Baba mostly sugar coats stuff also. Once in dream told me "You better start running". I was kind of lazy so said "you better explain why, else I won't". Next day dream "Major heart attack is coming plus explaining the working of the heart, that kidneys were the cause; quite in detail (was happy I asked for it)". Okay a little sugar coating might have been nice. But at least I knew what was coming. Went on a major fast for 30 days and calamity was just avoided. So I prefer mostly the truth.
I was once almost bumper to bumper with other cars on a sharp bend in the road. I had an overwhelming urge to move forward as much as possible. As soon as I did, BAM! A crash around the bend, one I could not have seen given the trees and hill and such, caused a chain reaction wreck but my car was unaffected because I had pulled up.
That is what advaita is teaching. "Real" meaning ever changing of course. Consciousness is never changing, hence real.
Funny you share the matrix. In India I visit cinema once in 3 years. The Matrix. Got big stomach pain. That was real. At least for 2 days or so
Well, to a Sim, their drama is real, even if they aren't from our perspective.
