Muslims and Mormons both believe that the word of God was some how corrupted by the early church and that the Bible that is used by Christianity is innacurate. How can a believing Mormon and Muslim accept that their faith is right, when their religion contradicts the religion that it came from.
Both have roots in Christianity, however how can they both say the Chrisitan Bible is wrong. What credentials does Muhammad and Joseph Smith have to say that the Christian Bible is wrong? Where they seminary scholars? Or is every person who claims to be a prophet a prophet?
I have asked some hard questions about my faith and my Bible and I believe everyone of every faith needs to do the same.
2007-05-20 07:55:52 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Both are essentially heresies of Christianity
Even look at Joseph Smith and Muhammad they have almost identical story lines:
Both were visited by an angel. Joseph Smith was visited by the angel "Moroni" and Muhammad by Gabriel.
Both were given visions.
Both were told that no true religion existed on the earth
Both were to restore the long lost faith as the one true religion
Both claimed to be illiterate or uneducated and used this as proof the book was inspired
Both claimed the Bible was lost, altered, corrupted and unreliable
Both claimed that their new "Bible" was based upon a record stored in heaven
Both claimed to be a final prophet of God
Both were polygamists who had many wives
Too much of a coincidence?
"I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book." Revelation 22:18,19
The word of God was finished at Revelation, but over the centuries there have been many religions who have been trying to make their own books that either add or take away from the Bible: Mormonism, Jehovah's Witness, Islam, Christian Science, etc.
2007-05-20 07:59:47 · answer #1 · answered by the hamburglar 4 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Anyone can say he's had a vision and attempt to change history. Muhammad was very successful, as was Paul/Saul. Joseph Smith's 'vision' is less successful, but the formula is the same: everyone else is wrong, and only I have the 'truth'.
For that matter, Abraham had a 'vision', and created the basis for global strife and hatred.
You don't need a bible, book of mormon or quran to be moral, civilized, spiritual, or to possess a set of values. All these books claim to be the sole source of the aforementioned, but civilized behavior predates monotheism by centuries.
2007-05-20 11:33:23 · answer #2 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God knows the Book Of Mormon, Another Witness Of Jesus Christ, is true. If you want to know what God knows, live the commandments of Jesus Christ, and read The Book Of Mormon, Another Witness Of Jesus Christ, and pray to an all wise and righteous God, and find out the truth for yourself. If in addition you want to go excavating archeological findings in Central America, then you could do that too, if you had a mind to do such a thing. In the meanwhile pray, and receive God's holy and righteous guidance on this all important question. If you know The Book Of Mormon, Another Testament Of Jesus Christ is true, then you will know that Jesus is the Christ, and that the holy Prophets who spoke in the Old Testament, and the New Testament, spoke through the inspiration of God. And you need no longer have any doubt about these things at all.
2016-05-22 02:04:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your facts are wrong and so your premise is wrong.
Mormonism did not come out of any established religion. It did not protest, or try to reform, therefore, not a protestant religion.
It was not reformed but is the restored Church of Jesus Christ in these Latter-days.
2 Thes 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not ome, except there be a falling away first....
Acts 20:29 ....after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock......
Matt 17:11........restore all things
Acts 3:19-21.....until the time of the restitution of all things...
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants, the prophets.
Isaiah 2:2-3
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the tops of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it..............
I watched the nations flow into it as I worked in the "02 Olympics, didn't you?
2007-05-20 08:27:04 · answer #4 · answered by lds123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because we do not believe the Bible to be perfect, complete or infallible does not mean tat we think it's wrong. How could we believe it to be the word of God if we believe it wrong? What we believe is that it's the word of God AS FAR AS IT IS TRANSLATED CORRECTLY. To me, that means that, if there IS something translated INcorrectly, it is not held against us for believing it.
So, we do not contradict Christianity. We no doubt contradict a lot of Christians' interpretations of Chrisianity. But one of the reasons I joined the LDS church is because of how Biblical it is.
2007-05-20 10:21:33 · answer #5 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We dont' believe the entire Bible is corrupted. Much of it is accurate - the Old Testament seems to be more accurate actually.
Islam doesn't contradict the past religions (i.e. christianity and judaism). If you read in the Quran, it talks about much of the past peoples and history.
2007-05-20 09:34:38 · answer #6 · answered by aali_and_harith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are both fact in that they were written by the person that was actually said to have written them.
After that, it is written by 2 flesh and blood men who had an opinion and wrote things down as they saw it.
I don't know how their word makes it fact. What if neither of them was ever born ? Would the world still be spinning and people still have other faiths?
Find one you like and can adhere to...but I don't base all of my faith in a leader that walks the same earth as I do and has the same questions I have .
2007-05-20 08:08:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Quaran and Book of Mormon=Fiction
2007-05-20 08:24:42 · answer #8 · answered by Not perfect, just forgiven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exactly, you have to investigate things so that the truth and false can be known and labeled. You can't live life accepting everything that is taught about religion without investigating to see if its true. Uncover the mysteries of the Bible by reading it for yourself, test what is spoken by the facts from the Bible
2007-05-20 08:02:29 · answer #9 · answered by Royce W 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Koran, Book of Mormon and the Bible are all fiction.
2007-05-20 08:03:32 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋