What does the Bible say about the prophet muhammad?
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The Bible does not mention Muhammad by name, but it teaches that all who claim to speak for God must be tested by God’s revealed word and by their confession of Christ. Deuteronomy 18:20-22 warns against prophets who speak presumptuously in God’s name or whose words fail. John 1:19-25 shows that even John the Baptist denied being the promised Messiah or the final expected prophet, directing attention to Christ. Isaiah 29:12 is not a prophecy of Muhammad, but concerns Judah’s spiritual blindness. Second Peter 2:1 warns that false teachers will arise among God’s people. Historic Christian faith therefore receives Jesus Christ as God’s definitive revelation and rejects later claims that contradict the gospel.
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- Isaiah 29:12
and the book is delivered to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I am not learned.
- Exodus 20:25
If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.
- John 1:19-25
[19] This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" [20] He confessed, and didn't deny, but he confessed, "I am not the Christ." [21] They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No." [22] They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" [23] He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said." [24] The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees. [25] They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
- 2 Peter 2:1
But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
- Deuteronomy 18:20-22
[20] But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. [21] If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken? [22] when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.
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