Tennesse Nana,
Some of your information is wrong. We believe the Atonement of Jesus Christ comprises the time in Gesthemene and on the Cross.
Let’s be clear here: Because Mormons don’t share the exact same tenants you do, you call us non-Christian even though we believe Jesus Christ is God and the Savior of the world.
We Mormons should be used to being derided, but it still baffles me.
I guess we can share, at least, a faith in Jesus Christ, a love for Him, and the need for his Atonement.
The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak.”
– LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley (LDS Church News, June 20, 1998)
...we are the only people that know how to save our progenitors, how to save ourselves, and how to save our posterity in the celestial kingdom of God;...we in fact are the saviours of the world...”
(Lds “prophet” John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, vol.6, p.163).
There is “no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth...no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God”
- Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, p.190
We believe the Atonement of Jesus Christ comprises the time in Gesthemene and on the Cross.
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However Christians believe that Jesus bought us Salvation by shedding His blood on the Cross and dying on the Cross in our place to redeem us from the penalty of spiritual death for our sins...
The Garden of Gethsemanee has nothing to do with our Savation...
The Cross is where it all happened...
Define what you mean by Jesus Christ, because your former prophet is on record as saying LDS do not worship the same Jesus of Christianity.
EB, mormons are the ones that derided Christianity from the very beginning and seperated themselves from the greater Christian church.
I left mormonism in the 1960s, and even then we were PROUD of being "above" those that were not in the "one true church".
Compiled by Bill McKeever
A common response to Christians who question the teachings of Mormonism is to accuse them of being contentious and unloving. Often Mormons will question the "Christianity" of the person and proudly claim that members of the LDS Church never criticize the beliefs of others and therefore conclude that no one else should either. As the following quotes demonstrate, Mormons leaders have long criticized Christians, and oftentimes very harshly.
Joseph Smith claimed that he had seen both God the Father and Jesus Christ and asked these personages which church he should join. He claimed he was told to join none of them, "for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight" (Joseph Smith History 1:19).
When asked "Will all be damned but Mormons?" Smith replied, "Yes, and a great portion of them unless they repent and work righteousness" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 119).
"Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth" (Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 14:10).
The Doctrine and Covenants (1:30) leaves no doubt to the Mormon teaching of exclusivity when it says the LDS church is, "the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased ...."
"When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73).
"The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171).
"With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199).
"Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).
For even WORSE criticisms of Christianity, click here.
Are you even aware of the antagonism of the mormon church towards Christians well into the 1980s?
Baffled?
Have you read only the LDS side of HISTORY?