No, Moslems don't believe that Jesus was the Messiah.
Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu'ran comes out, and it retcons the last one like it never happened. There's still Jesus, but he's not the main character anymore, and the messiah hasn't shown up yet.
Jews liked the first movie but ignored the sequels, Christians think you need to watch the first two, but the third movie doesn't count, Moslems think the third one was the best, and Mormons liked the second one so much that they started writing fanfiction that doesn't fit with ANY of the series canon.
No, Moslems don't believe that Jesus was the Messiah.
Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu'ran comes out, and it retcons the last one like it never happened. There's still Jesus, but he's not the main character anymore, and the messiah hasn't shown up yet.
Jews liked the first movie but ignored the sequels, Christians think you need to watch the first two, but the third movie doesn't count, Moslems think the third one was the best, and Mormons liked the second one so much that they started writing fanfiction that doesn't fit with ANY of the series canon.
I once mentioned on these boards that the reason mainstream Christians didn't want to call Mormons Christians is that they didn't like them adding to the Jesus lore. It's like people writing new, unauthorized Star Wars stories: all fine and dandy until Lucas' lawyers find out.
Still, I liked the OP. Pretty funny.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
"We come down to the days of the building of the Tower of Babel, soon after the flood. About the time of Abraham and the Tower of Babel, soon after the flood. The people being of one language, gathered together to build a tower to reach, as they supposed, the crystalized heavens. They thought that the City of Enoch was caught up a little ways from the earth, and that the city was within the first sphere above the earth; and that if they could get a tower high enough, they might get to heaven, where the City of Enoch and the inhabitants thereof were located. They went to work and built a tower. Journal of Discourses, Vol.16, p.50 - p.51 - p.52, Orson Pratt , May 18, 1873
Some thoughts on these quotes... Joseph Smith said that the City of Enoch was taken from the Gulf of Mexico. That big of a land mass could easily be seen from earth if it was in orbit on it's way to heaven, and those who built the tower of Babel could have been trying to get to it, thinking it was heaven. This actually makes more sense to me than Babel being built to get to nothing.
some doofus wrote:Some thoughts on these quotes... Joseph Smith said that the City of Enoch was taken from the Gulf of Mexico. That big of a land mass could easily be seen from earth if it was in orbit on it's way to heaven, and those who built the tower of Babel could have been trying to get to it, thinking it was heaven. This actually makes more sense to me than Babel being built to get to nothing.
Wow....just..wow.
The depths they will go to in order for them to keep on believing.
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
Some thoughts on these quotes... Joseph Smith said that the City of Enoch was taken from the Gulf of Mexico. That big of a land mass could easily be seen from earth if it was in orbit on it's way to heaven, and those who built the tower of Babel could have been trying to get to it, thinking it was heaven. [b]This actually makes more sense to me than Babel being built to get to nothing.
why not just use the apologist excuse that Joseph Smith was speaking as a man when he said the Gulf of Mexico was the city of Enoch. That way you don't have to believe the Tower of Babel was literal history.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
