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Unless I am mistaken, your religion states that I am going to hell. (Hand basket optional) I am not offended, why are you offended if mine says the same thing?

This is a very good question. Listen, if someone says to me, "C, you're hell-bound." I'm not offended [at least not the first time it's uttered!]. If someone says to me, "C, the creed the Holy Spirit inspired and then protected these generations is abominable," ya better believe that not only provokes me, but it provokes the very Spirit who inspired and sustained them.

Slander me all you want. Jesus even said to blaspheme Him, and it could be forgiven. Now blaspheming the Holy Spirit has prompted multiple theological discussions that I'm not meaning to lead into a tangent here, but even the remote possibility that somebody could be militating versus the Holy Spirit's very breath (the literal meaning of inspiration) is tredding on very dangerous grounds.

Either the Holy Spirit can protect what He has inspired, or He can't. And to say that He can't or that He failed for almost two centuries is a form of slander against Him which should prompt repentance on the part of anyone who has engaged in such a broadside against Him!

You are correct in saying that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints differ over the Post Apostolic Creeds with much of Christendom. I read a good book that explains the Doctrinal differences.

"How Wide the Divide?: A Mormon & An Evangelical in Conversation"

"Description: Mormons and Evangelicals don't often get along very well. They often set about trying to convert one another, considering the faith the other holds as defective in some critical way. Unfortunately, much of what they say about one another simply isn't true. False stereotypes on both sides prevent genuine communication. Having discovered this sad state of affairs, Craig Blomberg, a committed Evangelical scholar, and Stephen Robinson, a commited Mormon scholar, set out to listen to one another and to ferret out the agreements and disagreements between them. In the conversation that develops, you will read what each believes about key theological issues- (1) the nature and bounds of Scripture, (2) the nature of God and Deification, (3) the person of Christ and the Trinity, and (4) the essentials of salvation-and see how they interact with one another. What they agree on may suprise you. In the end, however, you can judge for yourself just how wide the divide between them is."

I don't believe you are going to hell (Jesus' decision not mine anyway)

So what you are saying is that you believe the Holy Spirit preserved and inspired the creeds that much of Christendom follows?