Modern Mohammedanism has its Mecca at Salt Lake... Clearly the Koran was
Joseph Smith's model, so closely followed as to exclude even the poor
pretension of originality in his foul 'revelations.' " (The Women of
Mormonism, Frances E. Willard, 1882, Introduction, p. xvi)
a.. "The student of Mormonism will be struck with the similarity of
experience and claims of Joseph Smith and Mohammed." (The Rocky Mountain
Saints, T. B. H. Stenhouse 1873, p 2)
a.. "even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a
gospel
contrary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed" Gal
1:8
Muhammad and the angel Gabriel
Mormons and Muslims share much in their religion!
Smith and the angel Moroni
Islamic And Mormonism Similarities
Similarities between Joseph Smith and Muhammad:
1.. The followers of Muhammad and Joseph Smith both killed innocent
"infidel" on the same date of 9/11. On September 11, 1857, Mormon militia
massacred about 140 men, women and children under the authority of Brigham
Young. However 17 very young children were spared and adopted into Mormon
families. They were in fact sold to the highest Mormon family bidder and
resold and traded many times afterwords. This event is called "The
Mountain
Meadows" massacre. Mormon leaders engaged in a deliberate rewriting of
history to deny they were behind the murders. On September 11, 2001
Muhammad's followers, using the Koran as a guide, sent two airplanes into
the World Trade Center killing 3000 innocent men, women and children.
Muslims today have a PhD in rewriting history and preach in the mosques
that
Jews were actually driving the planes, not Muslim terrorists.
2.. Both were visited by an angel. Joseph Smith was visited by the angel
"Moroni" and Muhammad by Gabriel. Galatians 1:6-9 says, "I am amazed that
you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ,
for
a different gospel; 7 which is really not another; only there are some who
are disturbing you, and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even
though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary
to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have
said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel
contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed."
3.. Both were given visions.
4.. Both were told that no true religion existed on the earth. In the
published account of his life, Joseph Smith related that he became very
disturbed when he was a youth because of the "strife among the different
denominations," and this "cry and tumult" led him to ask God "which of all
the sects were right - and which I should join." He was told that he must
"join none of them, for they were all wrong... that all their creeds were
an
abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt..."
(Pearl
of Great Price, Joseph Smith 2:8-19) N. J. Dawood says that Mohammed was
also concerned with the fact that the Jews and Christians had "divided
themselves into schismatic sects." In the scriptures given by Mohammed, we
read: "Yet the Sects are divided concerning Jesus.... Truly, the
unbelievers
are in the grossest error." (The Koran, translated by N. J. Dawood, Surah
19, p. 34) In Surah 30, page 190, this warning appears: "Do not split up
your religion into sects, each exulting in its own beliefs." In Surah 3,
page 398, we read: "The only true faith in Allah's sight is Islam. Those
to
whom the Scriptures [i.e., Jews and Christians] were given disagreed among
themselves through jealousy only after knowledge had been given them."
5.. Both were to restore the long lost faith as the one true religion.
Islam makes claim that Adam and Abraham were Muslims, a claim that is as
ridiculous as it is undocumented from either history or archaeology.
Mormons
make the unsubstantiated claim that the church in the first century were
Mormon.
6.. Both wrote a book inspired by God.
7.. Both claimed to be illiterate or uneducated and used this as proof
the
book was inspired. "How could an illiterate man write the Koran or the
Book
of Mormon?" Joseph Smith is claimed to have only grade three education.
8.. Both claimed the Bible was lost, altered, corrupted and unreliable.
9.. Both claimed their holy book was the most correct and perfect book
on
earth.
10.. Both claimed that their new "Bible" was based upon a record stored
in
heaven. With Islam, it is the "mother book" that resides in heaven with
God.
With Mormonism, it is the golden Nephi plates that the angel Moroni took
back to heaven.
11.. Both claim that the version we have in our hands today are
identical
to what the prophet revealed and that parts are not lost, altered and
corrupted. Of course the proof that these claims are invalid is found in
two
books. The Mormon claim is proven false by a book called "3913 Changes to
Book of Mormon" by Sandra Tanner. The Islamic claim is proven false by a
book (In Arabic language) called, "Making Easy the Readings of What Has
Been
Sent Down" by Muhammad Fahd Khaaruun. Both books show that the copy of the
book of Mormon and the Koran used today is different from what was
originally used when each religion was started.
12.. Both claimed to be a final prophet of God.
13.. Both claimed they were persecuted because of their pure faith.
14.. Both were polygamists who had many wives.
15.. Both borrowed from paganism/polytheism. Muhammad incorporated that
polytheistic moon god called "Allah" and "Allah's three daughters" into
Islam. Basically Muhammad chose Allah from within 350 known gods that were
worshipped in Arabia and proclaimed the moon god to be the greatest and
only
God. Smith borrowed from a doctrine called "pyramidology" and the Masons
and
other magic systems.
16.. Both received "after the fact corrective revelations" from God.
Muhammad retracted the Satanic verses and Smith retracted his divine order
mandating polygamy. But for Mormons it there is even a closer parallel.
Sounds exactly like Muhammad and his satanic verses.
"As many false reports have been circulated respecting the following
work, and also many unlawful measures taken by evil designing persons to
destroy me, and also the work, I would inform you that I translated by the
gift and power of God, and caused to be written, one hundred and sixteen
pages, the which I took from the Book of Lehi... which said account, some
person or persons have stolen and kept from me, notwithstanding my utmost
exertions to recover it again - and being commanded of the Lord that I
should not translate the same over again, for Satan had put it into their
hearts to tempt the Lord their God, by altering the words, that they did
read contrary from that which I translated and caused to be written; and
if
I should bring forth the same words again, or, in other words, if I should
translate the same over, they would publish that which they had stolen,
and
Satan would stir up the hearts of this generation, that they might not
receive this work: but behold, the Lord said unto me, I will not suffer
that
Satan shall accomplish his evil design in this thing: therefore thou shalt
translate from the plates of Nephi, until ye come to that which ye have
translated... I will shew unto them that my wisdom is greater than the
cunning of the Devil." (Book of Mormon, 1830 edition, Preface)
17.. Immediately after the death of Muhammad and Smith, a fight broke
out
from among the "faithful converts" as to who would succeed Muhammad and
Smith. Both groups were plunged into irreparable division that has endured
ever since. Islam and Mormonism both have squabbles among themselves as to
who is the one true splinter group of their prophet!
18.. Mormons, contrary to the Bible, "baptize the dead" by gathering
genealogies of all men who lived on earth. This contradicts the Bible:
"But
avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about
the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless." Tit 3:9 While the Bible
says avoid focusing in Genealogies, the Mormon church makes it their
central
focus of mission. Mormons have even been criticized for baptizing, by
proxy,
the Jews had died in Nazi Holocaust camps. When lists of genealogies are
collected, living Mormons are baptized, on behalf of, those on the lists,
who have already died. In this way, Mormons view every man who lived, as
being Mormons. In the same way Muslims claim that all men are born Muslims
and when they learn the truth of Christianity, they are apostatizing from
their first faith. Muslims re-write history by proclaiming Jesus and the
Apostles were Muslims in a similar way Mormons baptize Jews (for example)
with the expectation they will be Mormons in the next life. Yet gathering
of
large genealogical lists no more makes dead people Mormons in the next
life,
than re-writing history makes Jesus into a Muslim.
19.. Both the Islam and Mormon religions have those who follow the
"original doctrine" of the founding leaders and like these founding
leaders,
are violent, polygamists, and have revelations justifying their evil
actions.
20.. Both Muslims and Mormons (and Jehovah's Witnesses) have progressive
revelation. Jw's call it "new light". Muslims call it "Nasikh". Jehovah's
Witnesses were once instructed to celebrated Christmas, birthdays and
salute
the flag, but "new light" changed all that. Mormons like all Muslims, were
originally polygamists until Joseph Smith conveniently got a revelation
from
God on the eve of the US government outlawing the practice of polygamy.
New
revelation always replaces older revelation that became inconvenient to
the
prophet.
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