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I can’t help it! One more.

“There is only one Church - the Body composed of many members (denominations if you please).”

There were many Apostles as well, 12 to be exact. Was it okay for them to teach & believe different doctrines as long as they believed in the Lord?

Does it really make sense to you that the Lord would be at the head of all these churches & allow such a variance of doctrines? Is that what He taught while here? Is that what the Apostles taught? Is that what the Bible teaches? If you believe so, please site definitive evidence in the Bible where it states it would be okay for his churches to teach completely different doctrines. Please.

I look forward to your response later.

There were many Apostles as well, 12 to be exact. Was it okay for them to teach & believe different doctrines as long as they believed in the Lord?

Depends upon what specifically you meant by that. Did they teach temple endowments? No. Did they teach a works based salvation? No. Did they teach Jesus was an elder brother (ontologically)? No. Did they teach any of the counter-Christian doctrines espoused by the lds church? No.

Does it really make sense to you that the Lord would be at the head of all these churches & allow such a variance of doctrines?

Sure, read 1 Cor 12 a little closer and in detail. Would the 'lord' allow variance in the mormon doctrine either? There are multiple mormon religions out there?

Fundamentals Reno. Those fundamental beliefs are summarized in statements like the Apostles Creed and Nicea. There are few churches that would not accept either as the fundamental definition of what Christians and Christian Churchs believe. Mormonism needs to check its own dirty diapers before casting aspersions upon the diversity granted by Christ to His church.

There were many Apostles as well, 12 to be exact.

Wow! You Lds folks can't even establish consistency, let alone maintain it.

Why is it "news" to us 2000 years later that Jesus had "exact[ly]" 12 apostles?

Let's see. There were a dozen. Judas died (11). Matthias replaced him (back up to 12). The resurrected Jesus appeared to Saul (converted Paul made 13).

Now if the Mormon myth is true...that the resurrected Jesus appeared in the Americas. Then he added another 12 "to be exact", right? Wouldn't that make 25?

But we see, Mormons like yourself don't even believe your own Book of Mormon rhetoric. In fact, your church leaders don't, either. There's no Quorum of the 24 or 25...only a Quorum of the 12. Plus, we see no set-apart Quorum in Central or South America & another in the Middle East. North America monopolizes all of them.