Muhammad The Prophet & Jesus REBELS?

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“Hello, I’m Steve Wyse. Over the hill came a bunch of Northerners and when I saw the whites of their eyes, I fired, and fired, and fired again. I killed 40 northerners before they got me in the thigh. I fought in the civil war, and I’m a rebel.” “Hello, I’m Alicia Dike. I’m a dietician in the United Kingdom. Because of the growing issue of obesity, I drink lots of water, and eat only vegetables and nuts. Some call me a freak. I disagree. I’m a rebel. Now to you, reader, are you a rebel? As you can see, the definition of rebel varies from person to person and from culture to culture. Some think a rebel is bad, some good. Definitions are tricky things. People often disagree over who’s a rebel, but most will agree that a rebel is just someone who stands up for their beliefs, despite any challenges they face. Jesus and Muhammad were rebels; they believed what they wanted to believe through the thick and the thin. Jesus even died for his belief. Muhammad and Jesus started rebellions that indefinitely sparked two major religions, Islam and Christianity. Jesus’s and Muhammad’s rebellion are more similar than different. In a general sense, Muhammad and Jesus’s rebellion are the same, the conditions that caused both are dissatisfaction and a desire for change, their rebellions both sparked the formation of two major religions, and their ideas were not accepted in their communities. But, in a more specific sense, they were different; Muhammad’s rebellion was not only religious but also martial.
MUHAMMAD’S DISSATISFACTION:
Muhammad was dissatisfied with religions as they were. If he was not, he would not have any reason to start a monotheistic faith within a polytheistic-centered Mecca. To add to that, he would not have returned to Mecca a...

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...hange from Jesus bowing down to the authority of theRoman Empire. Jesus took the penalty of death, in spite of the challenges it presented. It was a challenge, because no human wants to die, our body resists it with all might.
Jesus was a rebel. Muhammad was a rebel. They both stood up for what they believed, in spite of the circumstances. Jesus and Muhammad’s rebellions were different in that Muhammad used force. They were similar in root; they were both dissatisfied with Judaism and Polytheism, their teachings were frowned upon by certain people, and their rebellions’ were the catalysts for the world’s biggest religions. Muhammad and Jesus’s strong desire for change was the spark to their religious explosion. Their presence is still felt today, in their word, through teachings presented to each generation of children, and in churches and mosques across our world.

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