I don't think Muhammad says, Jesus ministry failed. What Muhammad said, was every Revelation is meant for a specific period of time, and every People have an end. When their End comes, God sends another Revelation to revive Religion.
He said the same thing about His own Revelation and People. He said, there will come a time, my people need another guidence.
Taking the Bible as the exclusive word of God means that no other gods and no other messengers are sent by him. That would make the Bible null and void. Cherry picking the bits that appear to agree with your beliefs allows you to introduce other gods and messengers as if they are the same god......in fact they are, but it isn't who most people think it is. According to scripture there are just two gods who desire our worship. Jehovah and his Adversary, who is never named. (satan and devil are both descriptions of his defective character)
If you understand what happened in the beginning, then you will understand all that took place after that...and why we see the presence of so many religions that are separated from the one prescribed by the God of the Bible....who is identified as the Creator of all things.
In the beginning, there was no opposition to God or any alternate plan for human occupation of this planet. There was no "religion" and no long list of laws, because there didn't need to be any. All humans would worship the true God in harmony, and populate the earth and take care of it as the Creator intended.
It was only when a spirit creature (a Cherub or high ranking angel) whom God had assigned to oversee things in Eden, began to develop feelings of envy because of the worship these lesser creatures were giving to God.
This creature was overcome by his own magnificence according to Ezekiel 28:12-15...and stole what was not his.....
"‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says:
“You were the model of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eʹden, the garden of God.
You were adorned with every precious stone
—Ruby, topaz, and jasper; chrysʹo·lite, onyx, and jade; sapphire, turquoise, and emerald;
And their settings and mountings were made of gold.
They were prepared on the day you were created.
14 I assigned you as the anointed covering cherub.
You were on the holy mountain of God, and you walked about among fiery stones.
15 You were faultless in your ways from the day you were created
Until unrighteousness was found in you.. . . .
So I will cast you out as profane from the mountain of God and destroy you,
O covering cherub, away from the stones of fire.
17 Your heart became haughty because of your beauty.
You corrupted your wisdom because of your own glorious splendor."
To eliminate this rebel from your belief system is to muddy the waters of everything the Bible says about him. This creature is God's Adversary...his arch enemy. The whole Bible is about what he did to alienate humans from God and what God does to bring faithful ones back to him.
This free willed creature saw an opportunity to take what was God's by asking the humans to take what was not theirs.
By successfully separating them from their God and replacing him as their ruler, he was out to enjoy being a "god" himself, having humans do his bidding. He told the woman that they would be "like God" if they stole God's property, but in reality he was saying that
he would become "like god" if they obeyed him. Romans 6:16 says that 'we become the slaves of those we obey'.
But as humans were designed to be spiritual beings by nature, they would naturally gravitate to spiritual things. In order to keep his recruits happy, the devil catered to their spiritual interests by first of all misrepresenting the true God.....then after the flood of Noah's day, through disobedient humans, he saw to it that when humankind were dispersed in the earth (Genesis 11:1-9) they created many religions with a host of different gods, who all resembled the Adversary.....because they were all representations of himself. He cared little about what god you worshipped or what religion you followed....because all false worship that is rejected by God, goes to him by default.
The apostle John stated that....
"We know that we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." So its is little wonder that
the whole world is hoodwinked by him....there is no part of the world that is not. Sincerity does not make your worship correct.
It then stands to reason why Jesus said that "few" are in line for life. (Matthew 7:13-14)
The big picture is what most people never see.
....but its all there in plain sight if you ask God to help you understand what he had written in his word. To accept other faiths and scripture only creates confusion.
