{"id":60989,"date":"2018-05-12T09:05:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T15:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=60989"},"modified":"2018-09-05T09:53:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:53:45","slug":"are-mormons-closer-to-muslims-or-christians-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/05\/are-mormons-closer-to-muslims-or-christians-part-4.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAre Mormons Closer to Muslims or Christians?\u201d (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Al-Azhar,<\/a>
The mosque-university of al-Azhar in Cairo, founded in the early 970s AD.
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I continue with my brief response to a terrible 2012 Huffington Post article by a certain Ms. Eliza Wood:<\/p>\n

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Ms. Wood explains that \u201cboth Islam and Mormonism<\/a> are at best very distant cousins of Christianity with some of the same overarching guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s impossible to know what Ms. Wood means by the phrase some of the same overarching guidance<\/em>. \u00a0But here are some facts about Mormonism that she somehow fails to mention: \u00a0Mormons believe, while Muslims do not, that Jesus atoned for our sins, that we must be baptized in his name, that he is our Redeemer, that he is the Only Begotten Son of God, that his is the only name under heaven whereby humankind has any hope of salvation, that he was crucified, that he physically rose from the tomb on the third day, that he ascended into heaven where he sits at the right hand of God the Father, that he is the second person (with the Father and the Holy Spirit) of the Godhead, and that he will return again at the last day to judge the living and the dead.<\/p>\n

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I wonder why Ms. Wood omitted those matters. \u00a0They seem relevant.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNeither Islam nor Mormonism,\u201d says Ms. Wood, \u201cis a close enough relative to ever be confused with Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But she\u2019s provided not a single actual fact to justify her position with regard to Mormonism. \u00a0(Muslims, of course, don\u2019t claim<\/em> to be Christians.)<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf,\u201d continues Ms. Wood, \u201ca Christian of any denomination inadvertently walked into a Mormon tabernacle or a mosque, which would be fairly difficult since both allow only members of their faith to enter, there is no way the service could be recognized as a Christian devotion to Christ, but there is plenty of devotion to God going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Flat nonsense. \u00a0All Mormon tabernacles (there aren\u2019t that many of them) are open to the public, as are all Mormon chapels, the ordinary places of Sunday worship. \u00a0As are virtually all mosques. \u00a0Ms. Wood is confusing Mormon temples, which are closed to the public, with Mormon chapels. \u00a0This is an elementary distinction that somebody presuming to lay down such judgments as Ms. Wood is offering ought to be clear about.<\/p>\n

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But Ms. Wood is wrong, in any case. \u00a0Every prayer in every Mormon service and every sermon given is closed \u201cin the name of Jesus Christ.\u201d \u00a0Every week, the sacrament of the Lord\u2019s supper is administered in Mormon worship services, commemorating Christ\u2019s atoning flesh and blood. \u00a0Hymns are sung about Christ and his sacrificial atonement. \u00a0Lessons are taught and talks given about Christ. \u00a0Paintings of Christ adorn the walls of our buildings. \u00a0The name of Christ is emblazoned on their external walls: \u00a0The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>. \u00a0The Book of Mormon proclaims itself \u201ca second witness for Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ms. Wood is bearing false<\/em> witness, a sin explicitly condemned in the Bible.<\/p>\n

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Posted from Cairo, Egypt<\/p>\n

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