Posted: Mar 30, 2012 8:15 pm
HomerJay wrote:The point of the story is to show that Christ has superceded the old law and brought the new law and tyo metamorphise jesus into god.
Moses and Elijah are bit players, maybe witnesses, they don't bring a message from themselves, as in Mo's narrative.
... and the functional difference of the cameo appearances are what? What's the functional difference between being given a stamp of approval and "yeah, he supercedes the old law!" or being told by the prophets that "hey, go tell them, dude!"
There is none, it's the exact same kind of deception. Muhammed was not doing anything innovative at all, he was doing exactly what the evangelists did with that story.
In fact, your wording makes it seem you're kind of implying the NT's take on things is an even worse deception than the Muhammed Night Journey is.