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@WilhelmIII @Tony @freepatriot @d9dba0e072bdb353dfb0020de159126af47e69e133ea91bbd48e8bede37320e2 @placebo Muhammad existed and the standard used to deny his existence could be used to deny the historicity of 90% of people before the printing press existed.

@k @Tony @freepatriot @d9dba0e072bdb353dfb0020de159126af47e69e133ea91bbd48e8bede37320e2 Agreed. Muhammad's ideas on God and religion were certainly more formed from his exposure to and interaction with jews, but his exposure to heretical "Christians" who denied the divinity of Christ are likely what fueled his synthesizing of the two in the Quran. If Christ was just a prophet, then Mosiac/Hebraic law would endure.

@placebo @Tony @freepatriot @d9dba0e072bdb353dfb0020de159126af47e69e133ea91bbd48e8bede37320e2 True but I think it had more to do with jewish influence in the region. Most of Muhammad's debates were with jews, the tenants of the religion more resemble judaism, with bits of Christian lore mixed in from stories he heard on the road and from his first wife. Medina was also a jewish city before Muhammad was forced to drive them out (they wouldn't stop trying to jew him)

There were some Christian heretics in Arabia at the time but they were a minority, whereas diaspora jews were common.