Posted on 06/01/2007 6:12:31 AM PDT by pby
Edited on 06/01/2007 6:55:53 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Is Mormonism Christian?
A Comparison of Mormonism and Historic Christianity Copyright © 1999 Institute for Religious Research. All rights reserved.
Is Mormonism Christian? This may seem like a puzzling question to many Mormons as well as to some Christians. Mormons will note that they include the Bible among the four books which they recognize as Scripture, and that belief in Jesus Christ is central to their faith, as evidenced by their official name, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Furthermore, many Christians have heard the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing Christian hymns and are favorably impressed with the Mormon commitment to high moral standards and strong families. Doesn’t it follow that Mormonism is Christian?
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An LDS (Mormon) scientist proposed to prove the claims of Joseph Smith, as well as all of the other LDS Prophets.
His hoped for "proof" was in fact proven NOT TRUE by DNA, but his evidence was never made public to LDS members, lest they begin to suspect that all of their facts are in fact, simply made up.
Are you saying that the Southern Baptist Church the church of the devil because they belong to the WCC?
“If You Could Hie to KOLOB
If you could hie to Kolob in the twinkling of an eye,
And then continue onward with the speed of light to fly**,
D’ye think that you could ever, through all eternity,
Find out the generation where Gods began to be?
Or see the grand beginning, where space did not extend?
Or view the last creation where Gods and matter end?
Methinks the Spirit whispers, “No man has found ‘pure space’,”
Nor seen the outside curtains, where nothing has a place.
The works of God continue, and worlds and lives abound;
Improvement and progression have one eternal round.
There is no end to matter; there is no end to space;
There is no end to spirit; there is no end to race.”
No you can find this out by studying the Bible as you study and search the scriptures you will know by the Power of the Holy Ghost!
See excerpt from Probe Ministries article below:
Mormon doctrine is primarily received by the Prophet of the church. The Prophet Ezra Taft Benson, spoke at Brigham Young University on February 26, 1980. During his remarks he gave the current teaching regarding the absolute authority of this high office. He stated: "Keep your eye on the President of the church. If he ever tells you to do anything, and it is wrong, and you do it, the Lord will bless you for it."
The Living Prophet is the first line of authority for the Mormons. The present Prophet can overturn any prior teaching of a past Prophet, including that of Joseph Smith. Brigham Young said that (paraphrased) when compared with the living Prophet, the Bible, the Book of Mormon and other standard works of the church are nothing to him. They do not convey the word of God as does the Prophet.
President Joseph Fielding Smith declared that at every General Conference of the church the speakers are giving forth scripture that is equal to anything in the Bible or the Book of Mormon.
Is it not apostasy to disagree with a Mormon prophet?
Are you saying that the LDS and the SBC are the one true church, then...or are you saying that there is the one true church and then the church of the devil and then another church?
Why is it the church of the devil?
And there is a COUNCIL OF GODS in Mormonism?
"In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it." Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Six, 1843-44, p.349.
Are you sure?
I am.
Ping
GOOD GRIEF!!! How is this CHRISTIAN?
Is this a poll?
If so my vote is no , Mormonism has a different god than Christianity
Rom. 8:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
This is sort of conversation is silly because all spirits are eternal and are gods of some sort, not all will have gender only those in the Celestial Kingdom who will have a body of Flesh and Bone.
Even Satan is a god!
It's news to me.
Are you lumping Mormons and Gene Robinson Episcopals in the same boat?
Isn't George W. Bush an Episcopal?
None of Mormonism is.
That DNA was a bogus story when you talk to others in the field because there were other test that were not done which show Thompson the atheist neglected to do!
No but that would be just as Good.
The southern Baptist teach that if you belive in Jesue then you will be saved regadless of how you live your live they teach you can't fall from Grace. that is what the serpent taught in the Garden. It was a lie then and still is today.
When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44
The Bible says that all have sinned...
And I would want to be justified by faith, not by works.
And they actually want to put a guy who buys this stuff in the White House.
I once had enough time to take them to the mall manager to ask him if he was aware of what was going on. He replied that he was and they were constantly cleaning this crap out of the mall. He told me that he had been transfered from a mall owned by the same company in Salt Lake City. The anti-Catholic vitriol in our local tracts were exceeded only by the number and intensity of the anti-Mormon tracts in his previous posts.
I'm against this type of religious bigotry because it is a damnable diversion from the real war against the State Church of Godless and their Islamofacist allies of convenience. Therefore, I will not participate in the phony war of self-appointed "experts" in Christianity who think the rest of us should look to them for spiritual guidance. Neither will I make false professions of love for such hypocrites. They are diversionary and treasonous and phony Americans who choose not to understand the principles on which this country was built.
See post 96
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