We don't favor Paul, your side just comparatively overlooks him. :) As far as the LDS are concerned, as far as I know they have more than one "holy scripture", and they together do not portray a Christ that you or I would recognize. From a Mormon website:
Unlike many other Christian churches, Latter-day Saints believe that revelation from God has not ceased and that the canon of God's revelations is not closed. We believe that we should live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (Deut. 8:3, Matt. 4:4) and that God continues to reveal His words and to make sacred scripture available today as in days of old. One precious example of this is The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, an inspired translation of an ancient document from people in the New World who knew of the Messiah and had prophets of God among them. The Book of Mormon and the Bible together are part of the sacred writings accepted by Latter-day Saints. They are both part of the word of God, and we believe that God will yet reveal many other great things in the future.
As for JWs, my understanding is that they use the New World translation, which I don't think either of us could accept. Here is an excerpt from bible-researcher.com about the New World translation:
The New Testament adheres to the text of Westcott & Hort. It is a fairly literal translation, for the most part, but it does have some peculiar non-literal renderings. These are the result of the committee's efforts to conform the version to the doctrines of the Jehovah's Witnesses. "Jehovah" is given as a translation for kurios (Lord) in the New Testament whenever the Father is meant, but not when it refers to Christ, the Son. "Torture stake" is put instead of "cross" because the Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the cross is an idolatrous symbol introduced by the Roman Catholic Church. And because this sect teaches that Jesus Christ was merely an angel, the version reflects a Unitarian bias in several places.
So, I would disagree that we and the LDS and JWs rely on similar "enough" sources to arrive at our conclusions.
Nothing could be farther from that! We read +Paul's Epistles during every Divine Liturgy. Our theology and understanding of +Paul, the NT and the OT is, however, based on the Gospels. The Protestants base their theology mostly on +Paul.
As far as the LDS are concerned, as far as I know they have more than one "holy scripture", and they together do not portray a Christ that you or I would recognize. From a Mormon website...Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the cross is an idolatrous symbol introduced by the Roman Catholic Church...
FK, thanks for the review of LFS/JW differences. Nevertheless, they also use the rest of the Scriptures we use, their (private) interpretation notwithstanding. Did not the Protestants introduce a different (Hebrew) OT from the one the Apostles and the Church chose (Septuagint)? Did not the Protestants introduce private interpretation of the Scriptures?
These are the common elements of relativism that all non-Apostolic "churches," sects and cults share in common.