Again... how can you follow Christ and be a Muslim?
Christ is the Savior.
Muslims believe He was a prophet.
BOTH sentences cannot be true. Because of that, the Muslim belief is false... and only the Christian belief can be true.
If Islam is therefore false, and you add to it Mormonism... you are effectively adding false belief to your faith system. How do you reconcile that? Doesn’t false belief in Allah run contradictory to Mormonism? Where in the BOM or other Mormon works did Smith say Allah is Great?
When you follow Christian teachings, are you not following Christ? When you are charitable toward your fellowman; when you serve others; when you are humble; when you are generous, are you not following His example? Does one have to be Christian to follow His teachings?
To the extent that one does, one is blessed with the rewards of doing so; that is a universal blessing, without regard to faith or creed.
Maybe I’m nuts (a very distinct possibility) but last time I checked the Scriptures, God seems to be saying that he is the only One who knows who will end up where. I’m sure some Mormons and some Baptists are sure they are headed for glory but there’s a Scripture that says, “The first shall be last and the last, first” and don’t forget this one (I can’t quote it exactly), “In that day many will say Lord, Lord and the Lord will say ‘Depart from me, I never knew you.” (Ouch.) Anyhoo, my point is that no one knows for sure because we have little pea brains.
I remember reading in the New Testament about how the Disciples wanted Jesus to rain fire down on a bunch of people and Jesus rebuked them.
I also remember the Disciples wanting Jesus to kick the behinds of some folks who were preaching about Jesus but were not His disciples and Jesus said to leave them alone. Know what I mean?
Seems like Jesus gave us plenty of advice about how to treat one another - not that I am the great example. Ha!
Maybe we’re just trying to say that no human knows the eternal outcome of a Muslim or anyone else for that matter. The whole thing is in God’s Hands. If we try to jump in there and decide who’s going to hell and who’s not, we are thumbing our noses at Heavenly Father and crucifying Jesus over and over again. Only He knows our hearts. Only He knows us from the womb.
Sometimes I ponder my own harsh reactions. I find great solace in knowing that Heavenly Father knows all about my emotional hurts and wounds and He knows why I react the way I do - not that He’s all that thrilled when I blast away - but He patiently waits and loves me anyway. I’m his daughter. He knows all about my earthly father’s disappointing behavior and how it affected me, the little girl.
I love my Heavenly Father so much and am grateful that He sent Jesus to die for me so that I can have hope in this life and life eternal. I try and listen for the “still small voice” of the Holy Ghost but it’s hard to hear Him when I’m yelling at the top of my lungs through a megaphone. I have a long way to go!!