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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Islam each believe in a life after death: belief in the Last Judgment and an Afterlife is one of the Six Articles of Belief of Islam; it also forms an essential element of the Mormon belief system. Islamic and Mormon concepts of the next world share some common characteristics, which include:
Islamic tradition holds both Joachim and Amram are named the same, though the Quran only refers to Joachim with the name of Amram and calls Mary the sister of Aaron, [10] Muslims see this as connecting the two women from two prophetic households in spirit.
David's narrative in the Quran, in many respects, parallels that given in the Bible. He is named a prophet (nabī) and also a messenger (rasūl), David is included in lists of those who received revelation (waḥy; Q4:163) or guidance (hudā; 6:84) from God. In both lists his name appears next to that of his son Solomon.
The terminology preferred by the church itself has varied over time. At various points, the church has embraced the term Mormon and stated that other sects within the shared faith tradition should not be called Mormon. [19] The word Mormon was initially coined to describe any person who believes in the Book of Mormon as a scripture volume ...
David Israel 1981 Church of the New Covenant in Christ [citation needed] Based in Cane Beds, Arizona. The number of members is unknown. One of the lesser known Fundamentalist Groups, organized by David Israel (real name, Gilbert Clark) with members of the Apostolic United Brethren and members of John W. Bryant's Group. [47]
For example, Smith named the largest Mormon settlement he founded Nauvoo, which means "beautiful" (pl.) in Biblical Hebrew. Brigham Young named a tributary of the Great Salt Lake the Jordan River . The LDS Church has a Jerusalem Center in Israel , where students focus their study on Near Eastern history, culture, language, and the Bible.
Muslim tradition maintains that the Zabur mentioned in the Quran is the Psalms of Dawud (David in Islam). [ 1 ] The Christian monks and ascetics of pre-Islamic Arabia may be associated in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry with texts called mazmour , which in other contexts may refer to palm leaf documents . [ 2 ]
Names with superscripts (e.g., Nephi 1) are generally numbered according to the index in the LDS scripture, the Book of Mormon [1] (with minor changes). Missing indices indicate people in the index who are not in the Book of Mormon; for instance, Aaron 1 is the biblical Aaron, brother of Moses.