Peter1000
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The Qur'an testifies that Jesus is the Messiah. That is true.Interesting logic there, Peter. Let's test it.
Acts 2:38
Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
The same verse in Arabic:
فَقَالَ لَهُمْ بُطْرُسُ: «تُوبُوا وَلْيَعْتَمِدْ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْكُمْ عَلَى اسْمِ يَسُوعَ الْمَسِيحِ لِغُفْرَانِ الْخَطَايَا فَتَقْبَلُوا عَطِيَّةَ الرُّوحِ الْقُدُسِ.
Qur'an 3:45 (Sura al Imran)
إِذْ قَالَتِ الْمَلآئِكَةُ يَا مَرْيَمُ إِنَّ اللّهَ يُبَشِّرُكِ بِكَلِمَةٍ مِّنْهُ اسْمُهُ الْمَسِيحُ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ وَجِيهًا فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالآ ِرَةِ وَمِنَ الْمُقَرَّبِينَ
(And remember) when the angels said: O Mary! Lo! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a word from him, whose name is the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, illustrious in the world and the Hereafter, and one of those brought near (unto Allah). (Muhammad M. Pickthall translation)
You see how the bolded word is the same in both? That's the Arabic word for "messiah" (maseeh). So both the Holy Bible and the Qur'an testify to the fact that Jesus is the messiah.
Would you say then, as you've said about the relation of the Book of Mormon to the Bible, that because both the Holy Bible and the Qur'an testify to the same fact concerning Jesus, then they must have both been written by true prophets of God?
If not, then why not?
The Qur'an also testifies that Jesus is not the Son of God.
The Qur'an does not testify that Jesus was the God of the OT and that God has come down in the flesh to dwell with men on earth and gave his life on the cross to be a Savior for all mankind.
So if you read the entire Qur'an you come to a conclusion that Jesus was a great prophet, but that he was not the son of God and did not save mankind by giving his life on the cross for their sins.
Therefore from a logical prospective, the Qur'an is no friend of Jesus Christ, it is an anti-Christ. It is anti Bible, and therefore the Qur'an is not of God
Compare that with the BOM. From the beginning to the end, the message is: Jesus came in the flesh to teach his gospel, and to die on the cross to save all mankind.
The BOM also even uses the verbiage that God came down and took on flesh. Which means that the BOM also teaches that Jesus was the God of the OT even before he came to earth as our Savior.
The BOM from beginning to end is a friend to Jesus
Christ. In fact the BOM is a second witness that Jesus is the Christ, the God of the OT, the Son of God, and came to earth and took on flesh and saved mankind.
From people 15000 miles apart with no means of communications say the same thing as the Bible from beginning to end.
The logical conclusion is that the BOM agrees with the Bible. 1 John 4:2 and Mosiah 7:27 are companion scriptures and they are of God.
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