About like you LDS members would be if HE said: Mohammed was His prophet and that the Koran contained the way to Heaven!
Why would Jesus Christ ever hold the Koran up and proclaim it the way? It says nothing about Him or His gospel. On the other hand, the central theme of the Book of Mormon is Christ. It is a powerful witness of Him and that man can find salvation only through Him.
What do you think of Malachi 3:1 ?
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
Who do you think that messenger will be? Who do you think will prepare the way for the Lords second coming? Do you think that it will be announced by the main stream media? As Christians, what should we be looking for?
It says nothing about Him or His gospel.You may want to do a bit more research....
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=HPIC,HPIC:2005-18,HPIC:en&q=jesus+in+the+koran
On the other hand, the central theme of the Book of Mormon is Christ.
Then it's too bad that 2 Nephi 10:3 didn't get it right!
THE SECOND BOOK OF NEPHI
CHAPTER 10
Jews shall crucify their God—They shall be scattered until they begin to believe in him—America shall be a land of liberty where no king shall rule—Be reconciled to God and gain salvation through his grace. Between 559 and 545 B.C.
1
And now I, Jacob, speak unto you again, my beloved brethren, concerning this righteous
abranch of which I have spoken.
2 For behold, the
apromises which we have obtained are promises unto us according to the flesh; wherefore, as it has been shown unto me that many of our children shall perish in the flesh because of
bunbelief, nevertheless, God will be merciful unto many; and our children shall be
crestored, that they may come to that which will give them the true knowledge of their Redeemer.
3 Wherefore, as I said unto you, it must needs be expedient that
Christ—for in the last night the
aangel spake unto me
that this should be his name—should
bcome among the
cJews, among those who are the more wicked part of the world; and they shall
dcrucify him—for thus it behooveth our God, and there is none other nation on earth that would
ecrucify their
fGod.
HIS 'name' is JESUS
HIS 'title' is Messiah
CHRIST is the GREEK word for Messiah
Greek was imposed on his kingdom by Alexander the Great
Alexander was in power from 336-323 BC
Matthew 1:21. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."
John 1:41. The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, "We have found the Messiah" (that is, the Christ).
July 356 Born at Pella, Macedonia, to King Philip II and Olympias
336 Alexander becomes ruler of Macedonia
June 10, 323 BC Dies at Babylon in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II