Good thing! Because when I see these threads all I see is that Mormonism is a cult off-shoot of Christianity and Christianity is a cult off-shoot of Judaism!
Mormonism would never teach that man can progress to god status if it werent for Jesus being a man-god in Christianity. And Christianity has it's own pagan beliefs such as a memorial meal of eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the savior. The Mysteries Mithras' faithful celebrated a sacred meal. So did followers of Adonis, Attis, Osiris, and other Pagan Gods of the Mystery Religions.
Likewise the virgin birth is also pagan. Virgin birth is also from Krishna, Buddah, Dionysus and Horus.
Jesus is also a human sacrifice which is pagan and forbidden by Torah.
Jesus is a human vicarious atonement, also forbidden by Torah.
Jesus, even if he could have been a sacrifice, was not sacrificed according to Torah. His throat was not slit (he died from suffocation), his blood was not sprinkled on the altar, his innards and fat not burned on the altar. He in no way met the criteria of "sin sacrifice".
So, mormonism is wrong but christianity is just as wrong, from the Jewish (Original Gospel) point of view.
That's because He wasn't.
Read Genesis 15. The covenant between God and Abram. being Jewish, I'm sure you understand the ramifications of breaking a covenant. Now--why do you think God made Abram fall asleep and not actually take part in the covenant ceremony?
I absolutely have no idea if Mormonism is wrong but it doesn’t feel right to have a group who nowadays wants parity as a sect of Christianity to run around telling everyone they “Are Apostates and Whores of Babylon” on the one hand and then in turn say “We don’t say that”.
So every time I shake my head and say “What?!” You do, your elders and every one of your Prophets have and do.
I can’t figure if it’s a difference in age thing. By that I mean, if you talk to most Mormons my age and younger, they apparently are not aware of their Prophets pronouncements or they willfully ignore those statements and want to distance themselves from them.
I have heard variously from those my age and younger and to a person they say “That sounds harsh and I don’t feel that way or wouldn’t think that way”.
So I am given to believe their a certain reformation of LDS that wants to be seen as more approachable and inclusive.
As far as Christianity having its roots in Judaism, of course it does. I don’t actually get your point as it is well known and one need only watch “The 10 Commandments” and “The Greatest Story Ever Told” to get a pretty fair representation of the two faiths and their wellsprings.
Besides, who can resist a movie Charleton Heston or Claude Raines?
Are you Jewish?