New Testament, Book of Mormon, Modern Prophets: Yes. Confessing Christ is a key step in exercising faith in Jesus Christ. When done with the heart, it also includes acts of faith.
Confessing Christ and loving Him lead to a fulness of faith in Him and will impel followon acts of faith, such as repentance and baptism.
New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Modern Prophets: Salvation is never merited or earned. It is only granted because of the grace of Jesus Christ.
Some believe that "grace" means "unconditional." Others believe that "grace" means "undeserved", but is still conditional. The condition most often referenced is faith in Jesus Christ, and faith actions such as repentance, baptism, and loving Jesus Christ.
Quran: No. God has no children. Jesus Christ was a prophet, but not the Son of God.
Book of Mormon, New Testament and Modern Prophets. Yes. Jesus Christ is the literal Son of the Eternal Father in Heaven. He is the firstborn of all God's children and the only begotten child of God the Father here on earth in the flesh.
Quran, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Modern Prophets: Yes. God spoke with Jesus Christ. The Quran refers to Him as a Prophet. The New Testament, Book of Mormon and Modern Prophets speak of Him not only as a prophet, but as the literal Son of God.
The Torah and Old Testament speak of and prophesies of the Messiah first coming at least fifty times. The New Testament records how in all fifty instances Jesus Christ fulfills these prophecies.
Modern Prophets: Yes. Jesus Christ sent Peter, James, and John in June, 1829 to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and gave them apostolic priesthood authority. They were instructed to organize the Church of Christ again upon the earth.
View EntriesThe Quran suggests that there is some pre-determined selection by God. It does not deny, however, that we can make choices. It commands us to choose to pray and give to the poor.
The Nevi'im states that we should choose whom we will serve, indicating clearly that we have the power to choose for ourselves.
The Book of Mormon states that whether we have joy in God's presence is determined by who we have tried to become, not just His glory.
The Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim do not reveal the earthly name of the Messiah. They do contain, however, fifty prophecies about Him.
These 50 prophecies, not in any particular order, include:
(1) virgin conceiving
(2) Bethlehem
(3) Ramah…Rachel weeping for her children
(4) called my son out of Egypt
(5) Star out of Jacob
(6) righteous Branch
(7) stem of Jesse
(8) raise up unto thee a Prophet
(9) his name shall be called…Prince of Peace
(10) Prepare ye the way of the Lord
(11) To open the blind eyes
(12) I will open my mouthin a parable
(13) neither was any deceit in his mouth
(14) land of Zebulun…land of Naphtali
(15) people…seen a great light
(16) Hear ye indeed, but understand not
(17) bind up the brokenhearted
(18) thy King cometh unto thee
(19) riding upon an ass, and upon a colt
(20) precious cornerstone
(21) stone builers refused
(22) waves…thou stillest them
(23) he maketh the storm a calm
(24) Savior…he bare them, and carried them all the days of old
(25) pleased the Lord to bruise him
(26) for the transgression of my people was he stricken
(27) wounded for our transgressions
(28) hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrow
(29) mine…friend…lifted up his heel
(30) sold the righteous for silver
(31) weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver
(32) hated me without a cause
(33) like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter
(34) smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered
(35) gave my back to the smiters
(36) he giveth his cheek
(37) smiteth him
(38) nail in his holy place
(39) they pierced my hands
(40) he was numbered with the transgressors
(41) He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him
(42) wag his head
(43) in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink
(44) my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
(45) into thine hand I commit my spirit
(46) they shall look upon me whom they have pierced
(47) He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken
(48) They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture
(49) he made his grave with the wicked
(50) Messiah be cut off
The Book of Mormon also contains multiple prophecies about the Messiah, beginning with a Jewish prophet named Lehi about 600 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, who said that after the Jews "had slain the Messiah, who should come, and after he had been slain he should rise from the dead." Lehi also said that, "after the house of Israel should be scattered they should be gathered together again", and that "the house of Israel should...come to the knowlede or the true Messiah, their Lord and their Redeemer."
Other prophets in the Book of Mormon also prophesied about the Messiah. One of these prophets, named Benjamin, was visited by an angel who said that the Messiah would "dwell in a tabernacle of clay, and shall go forth amongst men, working mighty miracles, such as healing the sick, raising the dead, causing the lame to walk, the blind to receive their sight, and the deaf to hear, and curing all manner of diseases. And he shall cast out devils, or the evil spirits which dwell in the hearts of the children of men. And lo, he shall suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from evey pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickeness and the abominations of his people."
And then the angel revealed to Benjamin the name of the Messiah, saying, "And he shall be called Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of heaven and earth, the creator of all things from the beginning: and his mother shall be called Mary."
Yet a third Book of Mormon prophet prophesied of the Messiah, saying, "For behold, did not Moses prophesy unto them concerning the coming of the Messiah, and that God should redeem his people? Yea, and even all the prophets who have prophesied every since the world began--have they not spoken more or less concerning these things? Have they not said that God himself should come down among the children of men, and take upon him the form of man, and go forth in mighty power upon the face of the earth? Yea, and have they not said also that he should bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, and that he, himself, should be oppressed and afflicted?"
Modern Prophets also affirm that Jesus Christ "was the Great Jehovah of the Old Testament, the Messiah of the New."