28 Oct 2018
A person Robert William commented as given below in Google+ on Your message that Islam accepts Jesus as Prophet only. “Datta Swami Because Muslims reject the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, they will die in their sins and end up in the eternal lake of fire.” at Your divine feet, surya
Swami replied: The first statement given by Me is alright. Prophet means Messenger of God and Jesus was declared as Messenger of God by Mohammad.
Your statement given below (2nd sentence) is not correct since it disturbs the peace and brotherhood among all human beings in the world. Jesus did not use even a single harsh word against His bitter enemies. He instead prayed to God to excuse them and lead them on the right path. But look at what you are doing! Unless one finds unity among religions, which is the primary aim of God, such a person cannot even be called as a devotee. Such a person will go to the lake of liquid fire! You must also appreciate the reason why Mohammad said that Jesus was only a messenger of God and not an Incarnation of God or the Son of God. Note that the Son of God can be treated as God Himself. Jesus had already proved through miracles that He was the Son of God or God Himself. The knowledge and devotion that He preached, attracted the wise public. This made the egotistic priests develop jealousy against Him. They succeeded in getting Jesus crucified.
Jesus was the preceding Human Incarnation, before Mohammad. Mohammad thought that the sinful tragedy, which took place in the case of Jesus, should never be repeated again with any other Human Incarnation descending on earth to give right direction to people in both their worldly and spiritual lives. He found out that the basic reason for that tragedy was the claim made by a human being that He is an Incarnation of God. Hence, Mohammad eradicated this concept along with the miracles done by the Human Incarnation. He felt that the knowledge spoken by the Human Incarnation and the miracles done by the Human Incarnation can be directly linked to the absolute unimaginable God. By this, the Human Incarnation becomes just a messenger of God. The miracles become the actions done by the same God. In fact, the knowledge and miracles come only from the God-component of the Human Incarnation and not from its human being-component. The credit goes to the God-component and not to the human being-component, which is perfectly justified.
If you say that the resurrection after crucifixion was done by the human being-component, it means that you have to accept that Jesus, as the human being-component, performed the miracles. But this is not acceptable to any ordinary human being suffering from ego and jealousy. This concept is also not true because no human being can perform any miracle. Only God can perform miracles. But God perfectly merges with the human being-component in an Incarnation. This makes that particular human being God. God merges into that human devotee in order to give credit to His devotee. So, you can treat Jesus as the God-component Itself. But even this not acceptable to ordinary human beings affected by ego and jealousy, although it is acceptable to wise devotees. In both these cases, the devotees affected by jealousy, are certain to crucify the Incarnation.
So, the only way left for Mohammad was to say that Jesus was only a human being, who is separate from the unimaginable God present in Him. It can be done by treating Jesus as only a messenger of God like a postman. Similarly, all the miracles done by Jesus can be linked directly to God. Even better, the miracles performed by Jesus (the human being-component) can be rejected and treated as mere magic. This concept would certainly pacify the ego and jealousy of the human beings around.
All this was done by Mohammad for the safety of Human Incarnations. Mohammad Himself being a Human Incarnation sacrificed His real status for the sake of the protection of all Human Incarnations. The Human Incarnation is always kind even to His own killers, who after all are also His own children! With this background, you must understand the concepts established by Mohammad. It is those concepts which are being followed by your Muslim brothers. So, you should not criticize them. The absolute unimaginable God is called as Parabrahman in Hinduism, Jehovah in Christianity and Allah in Islam. Similarly, Krishna, Jesus and Mohammad are the Human Incarnations of the same one absolute unimaginable God.
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