[Elsie]

Since I believe there is nothing new under the sun, I wonder where Mormon type doctrines came from? I have heard a few say that Mormon doctrine is somewhat related to Hinduism, in that it seems to believe there is a little bit of the God spark in all people.

Well; Mormonism does have a heavy-handed; top down structure quite similar to...

Mormonism claims itself to uniquely be "the Church" claims a unique and authoritative priesthood, thereby denying the royal priesthood of all believers adds to the Holy Bible (with the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price) accepts multiple satanic visions as being from God undermines the power of Jesus' blood by its view of personal suffering for the expiation of sins sings praise songs about Joseph Smith, Jr. has strange doctrines regarding marriage (polygamy accepted in early days) believes in God the mother (who has conceived multitudes of spirit children) claims the head of their group speaks infallibly at times redefines "saint" to mean a living, breathing Mormon, instead of a bible-defined child of God accepts and spreads "another gospel" (Gal. 1:8,9)- good works, water baptism and church membership professes itself as Christian; Jesus as God, Savior, Lord and Son of God; Jesus' atoning death and resurrection doctrines are sending millions to Hell and they need to be openly refuted with Scripture

Catholicism claims itself to uniquely be "the Church" claims a unique and authoritative priesthood, thereby denying the royal priesthood of all believers adds to the Holy Bible (with sacred tradition) accepts multiple satanic visions as being from God undermines the power of Jesus' blood by its view of personal suffering for the expiation of sins sings praise songs about Mary has strange doctrines regarding marriage (celibacy still practiced among its clergy) believes in the mother of God (who is the sinless Queen of Heaven) claims the head of their group speaks infallibly at times redefines "saint" to mean a physically dead Catholic who was afterwards "canonized," instead of a bible-defined child of God accepts and spreads "another gospel" (Gal. 1:8,9) - good works, the sacraments, Mary and church membership professes itself as Christian; Jesus as God, Savior, Lord and Son of God; Jesus' atoning death and resurrection doctrines are sending hundreds of millions to Hell and they need to be openly refuted with Scripture teaches and practices bowing before and kissing statues WORSHIPS the consecrated communion wafer as God claims Mary is their life, sweetness, hope and most gracious advocate (as revealed in the Rosary) claims Mary was raised bodily into Heaven claims they get to Jesus by first going to Mary

http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/catholicmormon.htm

[Elsie]

I wonder where Mormon type doctrines came from?

I can tell you where they do NOT come from; and that is the book of MORMON!!!

There's not much in it that has any ANTI-Christian theology in it.

That's why they want you to READ it and then pray about it's veracity!

Other than goofy; impossible to detect early 'history' the BoM is a mish-mash of KJV verses.

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The REAL goodies of MORMONism are found in the OTHER LDS 'scripture'.

The ones they do NOT hand out to you and ask you to pray about: The Doctrines and Covenants, the Pearl of great Price, and the suspect KJV instead of the 'Inspired' Version that 'GOD' told JS to translate to REMOVE the 'error' found in the KJV.

(He did so; but Salt Lake City (SLC) does NOT claim it to be SCRIPTURE - go figger!!)