Hasantas one of the points I raised earlier which I didn’t see you respond to, is that your argument essentially leaves the apostles comfortless. That is do you recognise that the words of Jesus you are appealing to take place within a context in the book of John itself. Specifically part in contention begins in chapter 13, where Jesus has gathered his apostles together and is serving them by washing their feat and then when Judas leaves (John 13:30) Jesus begins to preach to his faithful disciples whom he knows will testify about him.
Your interpretation if we accept it, means that Jesus is promising the apostles Muhammad. The problem is that Muhammad came long after the apostles died, yet in 14:18 Christ says he will not leave them orphaned. Does it not make more sense that Jesus is reassuring his apostles that the comforter (who Christ says is the Holy Spirit in 14:26) will remind them of everything he has said to them? That he will bring them into all truth?
If the apostles didn’t receive the comforter, because the comforter is Muhammad then the apostles were comfortless. The whole church was comfortless and when Muhammad died I suppose the Muslim world is now comfortless. The talk Jesus gives his disciples is deeply intimate, Jesus is conveying who he is to them, what he is going to do for them after he has going. Your interpretation seemingly has Jesus do nothing for the apostles and why should we believe that Jesus did nothing for them and subsequently the Church which they spread?
Jesus conveyed the way of consolation and salvation. If someone would follow the disciplines and words of Jesus so he shall be comfort.
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John 15.
So there is no need for any addition to preachs of Jesus for Disciples. Indeed did Discpiles add(as revelation) anything after Jesus?
By same way if Muslims go on following disciplines of Muhammad so they are never comfortless. Do you follow Jesus or others?
Jesus say many times “spirit of truth”. Spirit may has different meanings. Here:
a. A force or principle believed to animate living beings.
b. A force or principle believed to animate humans and often to endure after departing from the body of a person at death; the soul.
2. Spirit The Holy Spirit.
3. A supernatural being, as:
a. An angel or demon.
b. A being inhabiting or embodying a particular place, object, or natural phenomenon.
c. A fairy or sprite.
4.
a. The part of a human associated with the mind, will, and feelings: Though unable to join us today, they are with us in spirit.
b. The essential nature of a person or group.
5. A person as characterized by a stated quality: He is a proud spirit.
6.
a. An inclination or tendency of a specified kind: Her actions show a generous spirit.
b. A pervasive or essential attitude, quality, or principle: the spirit of 1776.
7.
a. An attitude marked by enthusiasm, energy, or courage: sang with spirit; troops that fought with spirit.
b. spirits A mood or emotional state: The guests were in high spirits. His sour spirits put a damper on the gathering.
c. Strong loyalty or dedication: team spirit.
8. The actual though unstated sense or significance of something: the spirit of the law.
9. often spirits (used with a sing. verb) An alcohol solution of an essential or volatile substance.
10. spirits An alcoholic beverage, especially distilled liquor.
tr.v. spir·it·ed, spir·it·ing, spir·its
- To carry off mysteriously or secretly: The documents had been spirited away.
- To impart courage, animation, or determination to; inspirit.
Muhammad conveyed all truths about God and religion. He never lied. So Muhammad was spirit of truth.
