In answer to the video "Did Allah Really Send Prophets to the Entire World?"
This youtuber confuses Paul with Jesus, like most Christian do.
Jesus in his lifetime never directed his ministry at gentiles. He repeatedly distanced himself from them by allegoricaly comparing them to animals who cannot be fed before a human is fed, and who were traditionally kept "outside" the house Matt15:22-28,Mk7:27. Those "humans" being only the children of Israel to who Jesus was sent Matt15:24, and not the others alluded to as animals in the allegory. There isnt any instance of Jesus himself going out of his way to preach to a non-Israelite. Jesus was merely continuing what the long line of Israelite prophets have been doing throughout the ages; attempting to reform the children of Israel so that they might fulfill their role of being the torch bearers of the truth to the gentile nations. As stated in the allegory, they must first receive their fill of spiritual wisdom by their prophet, Jesus in this case. Once that is done and they are reformed, only then, the foreign nations will be blessed through them.
After him, his earliest disciples kept the same distance and established themselves in Jerusalem. Paul was immediately recalled to Jerusalem after the disciples learned he was preaching to the gentiles. Paul defended himself of converting Gentiles by saying Jesus appeared to him and told him to do so. Peter, who knew Jesus, tested Paul on whether Jesus appeared to Paul or not and concluded he had. So either Jesus did appear to Paul or Paul was a very good liar, probably motivated by the money he received from the gentiles, and as seen from the inconsistent account of his alleged encounter with Jesus the second option seems more plausible. During all the confrontations between the pro-gentiles and the ones against assimilating them, nobody invokes a saying of Jesus on this disputed subject, nobody mentions some of modern Christian exegete's complex web of interconnected deeds and words of Jesus as foreshadowing an extension of his ministry from the Jews first then to the gentiles. These apostles and early followers of Jesus must have surely been clueless and ignorant of Jesus' intricate discourse and hidden intents.
Just as he was sent only to the Israelites, Jesus similarly commands his followers to preach to the towns of Israel only
Matt10:5-6"These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: "Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel" and further adds that they will still be preaching within Israel before the coming of the Son of Man "I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes".This coming can certainly not be speaking of Jesus' alleged resurrection following his crucifixion since that "coming of the son of man" is preceded by a list of trials and tribulations the disciples will endure and none of those occured until the alleged resurrection. That coming of the son of man, which will happen before the disciples finish preaching to the Israelites, is the prophecied end of days that is supposed to occur during those very disciples' lifetime. Jesus will come back then, and Judgement will be imposed on all his rejecters and those who denied the message of his disciples, in addition torturing and persecuting them. The whole passage contains references to imminent doom of towns that reject the message of the disciples, towns that the disciples must flee after unsuccesful preaching, and the promised salvation of those that patiently endure persecution in Jesus' name. Put simply, this is a false prophecy put in Jesus' mouth by those unknown Greek writers that were sure the end was definately near, Jesus would come while they would still be busy preaching within the towns of Israel, to the Israelites only.
James, Jesus' brother, was the leader of the Jerusalem council Acts15 tried to preserve the Jewishness of the group, and opposed attempts to convert gentiles.
Jesus had sent his disciples ahead of him, among them James and Peter, to Judea and Galilee with the unequivocal instructions not to preach to Gentiles but only to the lost sheep of Israel, that dwelt among gentiles Matt10:5-6. His disciples were to prepare the way for his ministry among the scattered sheep of Israel only. It is to be noted that remnants of the scattered Israelites were found up to the shores of the Black Sea in northern Asia Minor that go back to the early NT times. His focus was on the Jews, because the HB makes it clear that it is through them that in the messianic era, all nations (that survived the mass slaughter) will be gathered under the banner of YHWH.
Remarkably, the Quran emphatically describes Jesus' mission as exclusively meant for the Israelites. To the Jews of 7th century Arabia, as is the case today, the reason for Jesus' mission and to whom it was directed to, was of no importance. No Jew would have walked around teaching the notion that Jesus was sent to the Jewish tribes. Christians on the other hand, teach that Jesus' mission was meant for all of humanity. The NT itself makes the claim, contradicting itself as is being shown. It is thus expected for a 7th century Arab who is neither a Jew nor Christian, and who awkwardly decides to reveal Jesus' target audience, to similarily state that Jesus was sent to all people. Or at the very least that he was sent to Christians just as Moses was sent to the Jews.
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