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“Actually, they’re more of a Restoration than a Protestant, because most of their teachings line up with those of the Catholic faith”.

Please explain what you mean, because, reading that at face value, and knowing Mormon theology, that is inaccurate
 
Re-read what you just wrote, because in your comment, you admit that they believe that there is more than one god.
One god of our universe, but multiple universes, each with it’s own god= multiple gods
 
This “The Journey Home” episode does a good job at articulating what it’s like, and reflects what my experience was
 
For me, no. Once I realized that it was false, and it’s theology, particularly the temple and it’s rites was not needed for family relationships to continue, it all fell like a house of cards.

So, it was easy for me. However, with that said, I didn’t have the generational family ties within Mormonism. For them, it can be devastating to come to the realization that it’s false.
 
Well so yes and no and a good response you gave. I am a mainline Protestant that has many family members that are Roman Catholic. I would not consider LDS in the broader text as Broader definition protestants. First of all they are NOT monotheistic. They believe in a multitude of Gods. There definition of the Trinity is not the same as ours. They believe in 3 separate beings as Gods. They also believe they one day will be exalted to be a God and there are many Gods. So right there tells us they are not Christian.

Just believe they say they believe in Jesus does not make them Christian. Satan himself believes in Jesus. They preach another Jesus another Gospel and its neither Catholic nor Protestant. They are not Protestant as they did not break from the RC church at the time of the Reformations. Those churches that broke were Lutheran, Anglican and Presbyterian. The Baptist, Methodist and others were offshoots of the break offs from the RC Church,
 
Um I would say if you converted to being a Mormon, you better study up on their religion. They believe in a multiple of Gods. A good video to find out about their doctrine would be The Godmakers.

Also scripture says thisGalatians 1:8

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!

The Book of Mormon is another testament…it is NOT the Bible!! And hello…or an angel from heaven preach another Gospel…ding …ding…ding.

This should be ringing bells in your head that something is not not right.

Check out this very short cartoon…this will tell you. Also Godmakers URL attached.


 
lokisuperfan said:
I got into an argument with a Catholic catechist on another forum and he directed me here. He was arguing that the Latter-Day Saints are not a genuine religion because the writings from their Book of Mormon weren’t found until after the death of the last apostle, and thus they were invalid teachings of the Church. Feel free to pick up the discussion where he ended it.
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This is indeed an odd statement since the Bible itself in Ephesians 4 states that Christ “gave some as apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers… until we all attain to the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God”

Since there is not yet a unity of faith on the Earth there still needs to be Apostles. Talk of a “last Apostle” seems premature.
 
Salmonslayer said:
Mormons deny the trinitarian nature of God, and believe in many Gods
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It is well known that the doctrine of the Trinity cannot be found in the Bible. Consider what these scholars say.

The New Testament itself is far from any doctrine of the Trinity or of a triune God who is three co-equal Persons of One Nature. (William J. Hill, The Three-Personed God (Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1982), 27.)

There is no formal doctrine of the Trinity in the New Testament writers, if this means an explicit teaching that in one God there are three co-equal divine persons. (Edmund J. Fortman, The Triune God: A Historical Study of the Doctrine of the Trinity (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1972), 44

I hope this helps…
 
AngelaMarie said:
For me, no. Once I realized that it was false, and it’s theology, particularly the temple and it’s rites was not needed for family relationships to continue, it all fell like a house of cards.
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How did you come to realize that Latter-day Saint temple rites were not needed for family relationships to continue?
 
Excuse me…they call it another testament of Jesus Christ. He was not a prophet. Do you know how many times to BOM has been re written and changed? So are you also aware that none of their historical data, not the tribes that they mention, the places nor the coinage etc can even be traced or shown in history.

Your second point, I do not know, I suppose some Roman Catholics do believe that. But there are also other RC Brothers and Sisters that do not.

My third point, if you do not know where it talks in the Book of Mormon, Book of Wisdom or D&C about being exalted to Godhood, or eventually becoming a God, and that Jesus and Satan were brothers, and there are 3 separate Gods and Beings in the Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost, or about Temple Rights…then you need to check. This is very real and part of the doctrine.
 
lokisuperfan said:
Christians who believe their promised land is in Israel.
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The promised land of Christians is not Israel, rather it is after death, and having been perfected, when we behold the beatific vision of the One true God.
 
There’s a lot about the LDS that I find hard to believe, but I know a lot of them and they are excellent folks for sure
 
Is it true that you need to know a secret handshake through a curtain to get into Mormon heaven?
Not joking, I honestly heard this…
 
gazelam said:
You may argue all you want but the LDS is not now, nor has it ever been a Christian organization.
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You saying it does not make my statement false.
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Satan believes in Jesus, is he Christian? For our friend @ChristMyLife we need to come to a consensus (define) who Jesus Christ is. For Christians Jesus is the Son, the second person in the trinity. He was incarnate while keeping all of his divinity, fully man, fully divine. He was sent from heaven to save the world.

This is where LDS as Christians falls apart. The LDS do not accept this simple, true, documented, factual, reality of Jesus Christ. Game over. They are not Christian.
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Tell me in this statement where I said something false. To keep it simple Gaz, don’t quote cherry picked obscure statements from obscure writers taken out of context to attempt to prove the Catholic Church is wrong. Look at my statement and tell me what I wrote was wrong. Is Jesus God? Is Jesus the second person of the Trinity? Is Jesus fully human AND fully divine? If you cannot claim these statements as truth, you are not a Christian.

Remember I want your answer, not a copy & paste of someone else’s no matter how well you cite it.
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The Catholic Church definitely does not recognize the Mormon religion as Christian. That should not be debated.

Individual Mormon members may be Christian out of genuine desire. That God alone will judge.

Just as God will judge whether a Catholic remained in a state of Grace at their death.
 
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