At 08:22 PM Tuesday 8/10/04, William T Goodall wrote:
On 11 Aug 2004, at 1:25 am, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 05:42 AM Tuesday 8/10/04, William T Goodall wrote:
On 9 Aug 2004, at 6:05 pm, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Damon Agretto wrote:
What I mean by "follow your own voice" is to define for yourself what it means to be faithful and Christian. Obviously to be a Christian you would have to be a follower of the teachings and philosophy of Jesus.No, I think that's not enough, otherwise Muslims - who claim to follow the teachings and philosophy of Jesus, the penultimate Prophet - would be Christians.
That could be resolved if Christians are those who believe that Jesus was the last prophet. Since Muslims believe Muhammad superseded Jesus they are not Christians.
This does mean that the LDS are not Christians...maybe Smithians :)
Latter-day Saints do not worship Joseph Smith or believe that he atoned for our sins as Christ did.
Muslims don't worship Muhammad or believe that he atoned for anyone's sins. They just believe that the angel Gabriel gave him the info for the Koran. Like Moroni gave Joseph Smith some stuff. The ambiguity is inherent in the situation.
The difference is that, while Muslims and Latter-day Saints both believe that the founders of their respective churches were men who were prophets who brought additional knowledge directly from God, Latter-day Saints believe that Christ did atone for our sins, while Muslims see Him as only another prophet.
-- Ronn! :)
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