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God will be merciful because you have the humility to change course and not whitewash the truth.

May God abundantly bless you and your family.
 
All translations of scripture are done in the contemporary language of the time except theirs. I have never understood that. To be clear I don’t believe the book of mormon was scripture I thought the mormons did.
 
I think and believe that loving one’s enemies and caring for those who can do nothing for you in return, are the measuring sticks of an authentic Christian life.

Mother Teresa was a wonderful example of this.
 
The teaching that Jesus and Lucifer are brothers is on your church’s official website.
 
Thank you for your very thoughtful posts.

I, too, am very different than my sister. I don’t have any difficulty understanding differences between siblings. I’m also a mother and grandmother and can see the differences between my children and grandchildren.

There are many reasons why Christians object to the LDS teaching that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers.

First of all, one must understand that Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism. Jesus was the long-awaited Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament.
Nowhere in Jewish teachings (including those other than the OT) have ever taught that God was a man with multiple children as a result of marital relations with actual women.

Therefore God could not have been a man “like you and me” with multiple children.

The Mormon definition of God is completely different than the Judeo-Christian God that has been known, taught and believed for several thousand years.

How then can the Mormon definition of God be acceptable?

How can one accept the teachings of Joseph Smith (a known con man) over thousands of years of teachings from the Jewish people?

If Mormonism is not the fulfillment of Judaism, it is not Christianity.

Without understanding the foundation and history of the Messiah, the understanding of the Trinity is impossible.
 
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Gazelam This says nothing of marriage. Even Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven.
 
No kidding. I guess LDS are free to disregard teachings they don’t like?
 
Or wait for them to change.
They have changed the temple ceremony…again…

If I hadn’t left years ago, the continual changes would have made me leave as it strikes me as a belief system that changes with the wind.

If the temple ceremony isn’t stable, what is?
So much for God being the same yesterday, today and forever. I remember the first time I ever read that in scripture as a teen. It was the first scripture that SPOKE to me. God doesn’t change. Ever.
 
Good points. I always just assumed all Christians, regardless of denomination, had basic beliefs in common. A couple of these being
1). God and His Truth are unchanging
2). Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism

This is where the Mormons are backed into a corner. Believing that God can change his mind and Christianity doesn’t need to fulfill the Messianic prophecy is uniquely Mormon- and yet they want to be accepted as Christians.
 
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gazelam:
Where is there proof of marriage in heaven in early Church history?
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Luke 20:34-36 clearly contradicts what you say:

Jesus told them, The children of this world marry and are given in marriage; but those who are found worthy to attain that other world, and resurrection from the dead, take neither wife nor husband; mortal no longer, they will be as the angels in heaven are, children of God, now that the resurrection has given them birth.
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All I see this verse saying is that those who are “mortal no longer” do not take a husband or wife after the resurrection (which is a Latter-day Saint belief). However, this verse does not state that those who are already married before the resurrection cannot have their marriage continue in the next life. There are just no new marriages after the resurrection. I hope this helps…
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Are you now saying that the fourth century wasn’t during the great apostasy? The missionaries told me it was. (They had to contact their mission president because they weren’t sure when it started, but they said it started after the apostles died)

Who passed on the truth to Timothy, Patriarch of Alexandria? Who baptized him? What group of people was he Patriarch of? Were his followers apostates or did they have the truth? Did his followers pass on the truth to anyone else? Where is this group today? Did Timothy baptize anyone? Where are they? Did Timothy have a successor? A predecessor? Did he act alone? Did he have a congregation?

If Timothy alone holds the truth during the great apostasy, why aren’t you a member of his church?

Why was Joseph Smith needed if the truth was still being taught and never left the earth?
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The Latter-day Saint belief regarding apostasy is not that every last utterance was incorrect from a certain point forward. Some truths were still correctly taught, such as, the commandments to not steal or murder. Regarding a timeframe, I think the apostasy occurred gradually over time. More like the way one’s hair turns grey gradually, not all it once.
 
The LDS definition of the Great Apostasy varies quite a bit.

What years do you think it began and ended?

Okay, let’s say some truths can still be taught. Who passed them down through the centuries? (That’s quite a few people). Were they baptized? Were they part of the Christian Church that existed at the time?
 
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Who made him a saint?

Who preserved his writings?

Apostates I’m sure. Why do believe in this writing but not others from this time period?
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Which writings from this period are you referring to? Here’s another tidbit from Hippolytus: “John, again, in Asia, was banished by Domitian the King to the Island of Patmos, in which he wrote his Gospel and saw the apocalyptic vision; and in Trajan’s time he fell asleep at Ephesus, where his remains were sought for, but could not be found” (Ante-Nicene Fathers 5:254-255)
 
She’s referring to how this…

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 345; “ God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by his power, was to make himself visible,—I say, if you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in form—like yourselves… ” – General Conference, April 1844

…contrasts this…

2 Nephi 31:21; “ And now, behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end. Amen. ”
 
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this verse does not state that those who are already married before the resurrection cannot have their marriage continue in the next life.
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Why would marriage need to continue after the resurrection? Marriage has two practical purposes: (1) to beget children and (2) help spouses advance towards holiness. Life in heaven will no longer require populating the Church and sanctifying spouses. Rather, the righteous will live as angels, who beget no offspring and worship God continually.

The text’s meaning seems straightforward to me.
 
Doesn’t bible actually refute the claim of Mormons that marriage is infinite and lasts forever, and that people will still be married after death? Or rather, when saducees ask Jesus if she will remain married to all of them (Mormon belief) he does not seem to support it and rather dismisses marriage in age to come?
Luke 20:27-40
How can mormons answer their alleged connection to Galatians 1:8 ?
Do Mormons believe in Holy Spirit? Or what do they believe that Lord means when he tells apostles to baptize all nations in the name of Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit? Why “in name of” Holy Spirit if he wouldn’t be a person, or a God? And if Gods are men who ascended, why is he not a man but Spirit?
 
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And the BoM teaches similarly to Catholicism that they are one in the same…

2 Nephi 31:21; “ And now, behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end. Amen. ”

I’m not sure why these views contradict, but the LDS church follows Joseph Smith’s teachings over the BoM. I’m not a member of the church officially, so I’m not qualified at any level to answer why that is.
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I’m not Catholic, but I think it’s safe to say that the difference between the two faiths on this topic is that Catholics believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are three persons, but one God (i.e., consubstantial in their divine natures). Latter-day Saints believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are three persons and also three distinct divine Beings. The Oneness is that of unity and purpose. That divine oneness is best illustrated by John 17:22 where Christ is praying for His disciples and says “And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one”

The disciples will never be one in the Trinitarian way (i.e., consubstantial with each other in their divine natures). The only possibility for them is to be one in purpose and unity. That’s the same Oneness that Latter-day Saints believe exists between the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. I hope this helps…
 
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