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The Lost One
Proud Muslim said:Just for your information there is a difference between a prophet and a messenger, not all prophets were messengers but all messengers were prophet. I am not fully aware of the difference between them so let me get educated on this part and maybe we might even reach a common ground!
And I had already told you that not all patriarchs are prophets.
I see people like Jared, Ham, Japheth, Nahor, Lot, Ishmael, Esau, etc were all patriarchs, but not prophets.
Proud Muslim said:As far as am concerned there isn't a direct passage in the Quran that says women couldn't become prophets, but all the prophets listed are men.
Then how can you say that women can't be prophetesses, if it don't actually prohibited women from becoming prophetesses in the Qur'an.
There were some prophets found in the bible that were not, that were not listed in the Qur'an.
Your Qur'an listed David as being a prophet, but as far as the Judaeo-Christian scriptures were concern, he was a king. Nathan was David's prophet. Do you recall when David committed adultery with Bathsheba, and set her husband the most likely to a death trap, and married her?
It was Nathan who communicate with God, not David, to let the king know that the sins he committed. And the Qur'an never mentioned Nathan.
Saul was king, but Samuel was Saul's prophet.
In any case, not all prophets were famous, or introduce new laws or new religion, or lead wars. Most prophets didn't change the way people live.
Anyway, there is a verse in Exodus that indicate women can be prophetess.
Exodus 15:20 said:Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her in dance with timbrels.
Miriam being Moses' sister. Your Qur'an have listed Moses' other sibling, Aaron, as being but completely ignored her as being one.
Seeing that verse in Exodus, convinced me that the requirement for being is not gender. Sure many prophets were seen as male dominant, but there are precedence in the Judaeo-Christian religions where women can be "prophet".