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Thank you. I do, in fact, look forward to talking to those two Sisters. This thread has certainly helped me out a lot, especially with respect to further investigation on my part. I doubt they can convert me away from Islam, but it has certainly made me take more notice of what I used to class as a "fringe religion".
The problems with both Islam and Mormonism are as follows:
1. Neither the BOM or the Quran, the so called holy books of these religions contains any fulfilled prophecy that the Bible didn't first provide to show them to be supernatural.
2. Neither of these
Johnny come lately books provide anything whatsoever in them to help us in this life or the life to come that the Bible didn't first provide. I've challenged Mormons on many occasions that if they could refute this I would become a Mormon. (I knew I was safe.)
3. Both books are dependent on the testimony of one author whereas the Bible was authored by about 40 different men from all walks of life, both rich and poor, educated and non-educated from kings to fishermen with a common thread of the history of the world from beginning to end (some future}, so far with all prophecies in tact.
4. Both
prophets borrowed from the Bible, using distorted plageristic material.
5. Both prophets contradict the Bible in much of their doctrine.
6. Both religions require membership/adherance to their human organization to receive the spiritual benefits of the religion, whereas Biblical Christianity requires no adherance or membership in any one human organization to receive the benefits and salvation promised in the Bible, though some might try to teach otherwise.