Oh my! This will get interesting ... please, Catholics, don't defend mormonism this thread.
There are three common errors that arise in regard to the doctrine of the Trinity.
The first error to avoid is tritheism. This error comes from an over-emphasis on the function of each of the three persons within the Godhead at the expense of their absolute equality. In essence, tritheism asserts that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three distinct gods. This clearly contradicts the first proposition; namely, that there is one, and only one, true and living God.
The second error to avoid is called modalism. This is the opposite extreme of tritheism. Modalism is an over-emphasis of the unity of God at the expense of the distinction of persons within the Godhead. Modalism will teach that there is one and only one God who manifests himself at various times as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The third and final error is Arianism (named after the 3rd century monk, Arius). This error denies the third proposition by making the Son and Holy Spirit lesser created deities.
Last month the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith noted the invalidity of the Mormons´ baptism given their misconception of the Trinity and, consequently, the identity of Christ.
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God said not to foresake our fellow worshipers .
In the 1980’s when asked about the mormons the pope noted a lot of common issues but in the end noted either they are right and we are wrong or we are right and they are wrong.
Guess that is why we call it faith.
The US Catholic bishops actually needed the Vatican to explain this to them?
Oh my! This will get interesting ... please, Catholics, don't defend mormonism this thread.
Mormons don’t see dead people but they do baptise them!
And in turn, Mormons don’t accept Catholic or Protestant baptisms. And they certainly don’t teach infant baptism, in fact, they decry it.
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moro/8
Perhaps the Mormons feel the same way about Catholic practices.
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Fine, but Catholics baptize infants, who have no clue as to what is going on during the ceremony.
Isn’t it better to for the parents to “dedicate” their baby, as the Protestants do, and then let the child/adult be baptized when he/she wants to accept Christ’s mandate for baptism, and make a public declaration of accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior?
**Last month the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith noted the invalidity of the Mormons´ baptism given their misconception of the Trinity and, consequently, the identity of Christ.**
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The trinity is three separate Gods: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. "That these three are separate individuals, physically distinct from each other, is demonstrated by the accepted records of divine dealings with man," (Articles of Faith, by James Talmage, p. 35.).
"Many men say there is one God; the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are only one God. I say that is a strange God [anyhow]--three in one and one in three. . .It is curious organization… All are crammed into one God according to sectarianism (Christian faith). It would make the biggest God in all the world. He would be a wonderfully big God--he would be a giant or a monster," (Joseph Smith, Teachings, p. 372).
yet if an atheist or Jewish physician baptises a dying baby, it is a sacrament?
Doesn’t it follow that if anyone can baptize under the Trinitarian formula then you don’t need a priesthood or Apostolic succession?
This would look like a major victory for Protestantism which in the main rejects baptism as a necessary ordinance. Is it still a necessary ordinance for the Catholic Church?
Most Christians, be they Roman Catholic or (standard) Protestent (NOT Mormon), tend to have modalistic assumptions about God; the errors relating to modalism seem to be the most common.
Of course since actually grasping the truth of God as one Being in three Persons, is seemingly impossible, the best thing to do is NOT to try to figure it all out, rather to fall down and worship...