I’m still in limbo land about who I will vote for. I see no difference in the people who tout the “ROMNEY IS A MORMAN”, not a christian, like the folks who touted the “KENNEDY IS A CATHOLIC”, the Pope will rule America, well from what I’ve seen and heard, Romney worships the same JESUS as I do, just as Kennedy worthishipped the same JESUS and I do. This is just a bunch of huuey. Well we got Kennedy, for while, and he did a pretty good job, we’re not communists...but for heaven’s sake look at the candidates and not their religion...except if one is islam...then, I draw the line.
You tread shaky ground. There are a lot of people on this thread ready to “re-educate” you that Mormons don’t worship the same Jesus as you do.
I do agree with your points, however.
Official Mormon leaders didn't agree with you over a 25-year period, 1977-2002.
For one thing, Christians worship THE Son of God; LDS believe Jesus was a son of God...just like Mitt said in early December that "everyone is a child of God." [to LDS, even the anti-Christ is a "son of God" born in the pre-existent world as a spirit to Heavenly Father; likewise, LDS even think Satan was a "child of God"--a younger spirit brother to elder Jesus)
Do LDS think they worship the same Jesus as Christians? Let's let them speak for themselves:
“It is true that many of the Christian churches worship a different Jesus Christ than is worshipped by the Mormons.” – LDS publication, Ensign Magazine, May 1977, p. 26
According to an LDS publication, President Gordon B. Hinckley bore his testimony describing Christ in Geneva, Switzerland at an LDS gathering of five stakes in France and Switzerland on 6 June 1998; the LDS Church News then published the quote a few weeks later. The article reads: In bearing testimony of Jesus Christ, President Hinckley spoke of those outside the Church who say Latter-day Saints "do not believe in the traditional Christ. No, I don't. The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak. For the Christ of whom I speak has been revealed in this the Dispensation of the Fulness [sic] of Times.
Four years later, Hinckley said the following: As a Church we have critics, many of them. They say we do not believe in the traditional Christ of Christianity. There is some substance to what they say. Our faith, our knowledge is not based on ancient tradition, the creeds which came of a finite understanding and out of the almost infinite discussions of men trying to arrive at a definition of the risen Christ. Our faith, our knowledge comes of the witness of a prophet in this dispensation who saw before him the great God of the universe and His Beloved Son, the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. (Gordon B. Hinckley, "We Look to Christ", from April 2002 General Conference.)
Read on; you are only one post #1.
Reminds me of the old joke...