[lady lawyer]

I believe that Christ is my Savior. Therefore, I am a Christian. I do not need to accept all your doctrines and creeds to be a Christian. That is between me and Christ.

[Tennessee Nana]

I believe that Christ is my Savior. Therefore, I am a Christian. I do not need to accept all your doctrines and creeds to be a Christian. That is between me and Christ.
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Jesus said..

The time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye and believe the Gospel..Mark 1:15

Did you repent ???

Nobody asked you to accept (any additional) doctrines and creeds to be a Christian...

Just as Christians do not believe that our salvation is dependent on a belief in Joseph Smith..

[Zakeet]

I believe that Christ is my Savior. Therefore, I am a Christian.

A FEW SIMPLE QUESTIONS:

1. Do you believe in the same Christ revealed in the Bible?

2. Do you believe you must accept Joseph Smith in order to receive salvation?

3. Do you believe in Prophet Lorenzo Snow's famous couplet:

   As man now is, God once was. As God now is, Man may become.

4. Do you aspire to be sealed as a wife to your husband for time and all eternity so that you may someday become gods and goddesses ruling over your own planet?

5. Do you believe you will only be resurrected if your husband calls forth your Temple Name from beyond the veil?

6. Do you believe Jesus and Lucifer were spirit brothers?

7. Do you believe there are more gods than the one God revealed in the Bible?

8. Do you believe the Mormon Church is Christian?

If you answered YES to any one of these questions (and I can go on with many more), then you have serious issues resolve concerning your professed Christianity.

Or in other words, you can call yourself a tree, but that doesn't make you a tree.

[Elsie]

 

 I do not need to accept all your doctrines and creeds to be a Christian.

 

You do, however, need to follow THIS creed to be an LDS member:

 

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Articles of Faith

The Articles of Faith outline 13 basic points of belief of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Prophet Joseph Smith first wrote them in a letter to John Wentworth, a newspaper editor, in response to Mr. Wentworth's request to know what members of the Church believed.
They were subsequently published in Church periodicals.
They are now regarded as scripture and included in the Pearl of Great Price.

 

 

 

THE ARTICLES OF FAITH
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
History of the Church, Vol. 4, pp. 535—541

 

 

1. We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
   
2. We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.
   
3. We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
   
4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
   
5. We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.
   
6. We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
   
7. We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
   
8. We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
   
9. We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
   
10. We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
    
11. We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
    
12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
    
13. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

Joseph Smith