Recently, I had a dialogue with an Arab Christian on YouTube by the name of Omar Benneau. That Arab Christian argued: "Jesus had superpowers but Mohamed did not have. Therefore Jesus was greater than Mohamed". I did not take the typical Muslim way of responding to this saying Mohamed had superpowers too and God gave all of his prophets specific superpowers. Instead, I helped that Arab Christian understand why it is childlike to claim that having superpowers makes someone greater than others. My different approach to deal with this topic really worked and that Arab Christian was speechless at the end of our dialogue. I thought it would be a good thing to share our dialogue with billions of Muslims & Christians out there. And that's why I have decided to post this.
Omar Benneau: Jesus had superpowers but Mohamed did not have. Therefore Jesus was greater than Mohamed.
Hu Wen: Power
comes with responsibility, dear. Having super powers doesn't make you superior.
Fulfilling your responsibility that comes with your power makes you superior.
Pay attention so you may learn, dear. Jesus failed his responsibility to save
his people from oppression but Mohammed succeeded. Jesus is a loser despite of
being a super man. Mohammed is a winner despite of being an ordinary man. An
ordinary man achieved more than a super man. This is the biggest miracle
mankind has ever seen.
Omar Benneau: Do
you do realize that Muslims believe in Jesus and if you do not believe in
Jesus, you are not a Muslim and you just fail in your life?
Hu Wen: I
do know that Islam teaches Jesus will be successful when he returns. But till
then, I would call him a loser. Because he failed his people (Jews).
Omar Benneau: Jesus
did not fail. You got it all wrong. He came to save every single person on
earth by dying on the cross. Jewish
people were mad at him and said he failed because they were excepting him to
save them from Roman Empire.
Hu Wen: But
how could we blame Jews when God reveled to them in Old Testament that the
Messiah would save them from oppression & make all
other nations bow down to them & re-establish the kingdom of Judah?
The problem arises when both New Testament & Koran identify Jesus
as Messiah. When you identify Jesus as Messiah, Jesus is automatically
assigned responsibility to do what Old Testament says the Messiah
is supposed to do.
Jesus died & got resurrected for the pardon of
mankind according to New Testament & I respect that. But Jesus
shouldn't have left Jews in the hands of oppressors and go up in
heaven to enjoy himself after he was resurrected. How is that fair to
Jews? And how does that fulfill the criteria of Messiah found in Old
Testament?
Jesus failed as Messiah to save Jews & make them
a great nation again. The anger of Jews is legitimate. And it makes sense why
Jews don't accept Jesus because of his failure as Messiah.
