Every one of those quotes is long, long way off from endorsing Muhammad as a true servant of God like you try to portray it.
We believe that God has touched and influenced many people, including the founding fathers of the USA, the Christian reformers, and others. That doesn’t mean everything they did was right or that they had any kind of divine authority. It only means that God used them to lead others forward in some way great or small.
We believe that whatever is good comes from God, He is behind each step towards the truth. Many of those steps do not end at the truth, but rather lay a foundation for further steps so that line upon line he leads people and nations from darkness to light. If you want to fault us for taking such a charitable view, it is your right, but charity never faileth.
For all it’s flaws, isn’t Islam closer to the truth than the religions the Arabs were following before Muhammad? Isn’t there in Islam a common base that Christians missionaries can build on to bring them to greater truth?
On a side note, I’ve always wondered how much of Islam is actually based on what leaders after Muhammad established, and how much of what we know of Muhammad is accurate. Not that it matters much.
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The words say what they say!
Then you are in the same boat with us, for we...
... always wondered how much of LDS religion is actually based on what leaders after Joseph Smith established, and how much of what we know of him is accurate.
We feel that it matters much!