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Sam Shamoun breaks down why claiming Jesus was merely a prophet falls apart historically, pointing out that any claim from Muhammad six centuries later in Arabia, speaking a language neither Jesus nor his followers spoke, holds no historical weight against the earliest first century sources. He explains that the Gospels' apparent differences reflect accepted Greco-Roman biographical standards of summarizing and rearranging material rather than genuine contradictions, citing Michael Licona's work on the subject, and shows how even in the earliest Gospel, Mark, Jesus is condemned for blasphemy in Mark 14:60-64 for claiming to be the divine "son of man" of Daniel 7 who sits at the right hand of power and receives worship from all nations, a claim no first century Jewish monotheist could make about himself without meaning something far beyond a mere prophet. Sam argues this means Jesus can't simply be dismissed as "a good prophet," since a true prophet of God cannot lie, and his claim to divinity leaves only two options: he was God, or he was a false prophet whom God would never have vindicated through resurrection. He then explains why skeptics reject the resurrection despite what he calls overwhelming historical data, arguing it ultimately comes down to worldview and presupposition rather than evidence, and closes by pointing to Paul's mention in 1 Corinthians 15:6 of over 500 living eyewitnesses who saw the risen Jesus, arguing that a mass hallucination shared identically by hundreds of people has no precedent and that Paul naming specific witnesses like Cephas and James, while writing to people who could actually go verify the claim, makes fabrication implausible. Timestamps📌 0:00 Why "Jesus was just a prophet" fails historically 5:53 The blasphemy claim in Mark 14 that proves the Trinity 13:07 Why skeptics really reject the resurrection 15:32 Paul's 500 witnesses and why mass hallucination doesn't work Like 👍 Share to Other Christian Brother & Sisters ❤️ ✅Subscribe Subscribe to ​⁠​⁠Shamounian Sam Shamouns Articles to Help with Christian / Islam objections https://answeringislam.blog/690ca956ea00a60f4925c2c7-2/ https://answering-islam.org Support the Channel by helping put out videos more consistently and with more topics for all christians ❤️🙏 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6uIGfgTH4x4360B0RDl4hg/join Tiktok where i repost other clips: https://www.tiktok.com/@islam_to_jesuschrist?_t=ZP-8zjalwdkjnC&_r=1 Tiktok BackUp: https://www.tiktok.com/@islam_to_jesuschrist2?_r=1&_t=ZP-97GQXc80oow Instagram where i also post clips: https://www.instagram.com/shamounianexplains?igsh=enJ4YTB5ejVuc3B5&utm_source=qr #samshamoun #christian #bible