Was Christianity Preached In Saudi Arabia & other Arab speaking countries Prior to Mohammad's run?

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Was Christianity Preached In Saudi Arabia & other Arab speaking countries Prior to Mohammad's run?

Answer 1

Christianity started in the Middle East.  Most of the Christians in the area were then -- as now -- are Catholics.  Very few Protestants are in the Middle East.  Islam recognizes that Catholicism preceeded Islam some 600+ years before.  Therefore they (Muslims) acknowledge that Catholics are invested in the area.

Answer 2

There is a story about Mohammad (PBUH) when he was a young lad learning how the caravan trade worked.

One of the caravan routes stopped through Bostra.  At Bostra there was a monk's cell that had been inhabited by generations of Christian hermits.  This cell was filled with gospels, commentaries and the inspired predictions of these holy men.

The last of the monk occupiers of this hermitage was Bahira.

Bahira was meditating, observing the dust raised by a caravan.  As it came closer he saw that an illuminated cloud seemed to follow the caravan. It hovered above a thorn tree whose branches seemed to bend down to the seated figure below it.  Bahira became interested.

The Quraysh merchants arrived and, Bahira invited them to a feast as honoured guests.  When they came and exchanged formal greetings, he carefully scrutinised their faces.  Nothing was revealed.  Bahira inquired, 'if they had left someone behind'.

'There is noone left at the camp,' they answered, 'save only a boy, the youngest of us all.'

The merchants felt guilty at leaving Mohammad behind at their camp.  One of the men went back and brought him over to join the rest of his people.  Bahira recognised the spiritual qualities in Mohammad.  While they ate he gently questioned the boy about his faith, his life, his family and his ambitions.

This occured before 610 AD

Bostra is located to the North of Arabia

Answer 3

Yes he spread Islam by the sword and it will be whipped by the sword of Christ , by His word  

Answer 4

I have heard that Mohammad studied Judaism and Christianity while he ran caravans across the desert.  

Read the following excerpt from the World BookHis teachings. Muhammad was now the head of both a religion and a community, and he made his message law. He abolished idol worship and the killing of unwanted baby girls. He limited polygyny (marriage to more than one wife at a time) and restricted divorce. He reformed inheritance laws, regulated slavery, and helped the poor. He also banned war and violence except for self-defense and for the cause of Islam.

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Muhammad seems to have expected Jews and Christians to accept him as a prophet. At first he was friendly toward them. He chose Jerusalem as the direction to be faced in prayer, similar to the Jewish practice. He also set aside Friday as a Muslim day of congregational prayer, perhaps because the Jews began their Sabbath preparations then. But the Jews were hostile to him and his followers. Muhammad drove the Jews from the city of Mecca and organized a purely Muslim society. To symbolize the independence of the new religion, he redirected his followers to face Mecca, instead of Jerusalem, when praying.

The Meccans went to war against Muhammad and his followers. They attacked Medina several times but were always driven back. In 630, Muhammad entered Mecca in triumph. He offered pardon to the people there, most of whom accepted him as the Prophet of God. He destroyed the pagan idols in the Kaaba, prayed there, and made it a mosque (house of worship). Muhammad died two years later, on June 8, 632, in Medina. His tomb is in the Prophet's Mosque in Medina (see Medina)."

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Answer 5

Yes. there were Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Gnostics  and Pagans in Arabia before Muhammed. The region became Islamic after his conquest  

Answer 6

Christian and jews where present in that region till he decided to spread his vile faith by the sword, Drove out many and by his own hands beheaded many, mohammad is a mass murderer, a pedophile and not a prophet of any True God

Answer 7

According to the Quran itself there were Jews and Christians present in Saudi Arabia prior to Mohammed's declaration of "prophethood"..