Response: You
know that Muhammad is not my prophet; he is yours. I do not believe exactly
what you believe about him. He said many good things about my Lord Jesus. If I
recognize Muhammad as a prophet I would be a Muslim. I believe that Jesus was
the last of the prophets, God’s final word to the world. We, Christians, see
Jesus as the most complete revelation of God in the form of a human being. We
cannot believe that there could be any more complete revelation of God after
Jesus.
Muslims and Christians alike agree that Christ's
coming was often predicted in the Old Testament. If God had intended to send
another prophet who would be far greater than Jesus Christ, surely we would
find predictions about him too. None are to be found. There was no need for
another prophet to come after Jesus. When Adam and Eve sinned against God, sin
and the curse came into the world. Man’s relationship with God was broken.
However, because God is full of compassion and mercy, He promised to send a
Saviour (not just a prophet) to rescue the world. People try to escape God’s
judgment by relying entirely on their good works, but God’s Word says we can
never please God by how good our lives are. We are not able to make amends for
our sins. We are hopeless. But God decided to have mercy on us. He knew that
there was only one way to resolve our problem: to deal with it Himself. We did
not just need a great prophet. We needed a Saviour who came to take away our
sins.
All the prophets - Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and
others - remind us of God’s promise. They prophesied and described the Saviour
who would come. Later, when the prophet John the Baptist saw Jesus, he said
that Jesus was the promised Saviour, the fulfilment of God’s pledge to Adam and
Eve. If the promised Saviour has come, why should we look for someone else?