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SunshineGrandma said:
I wonder if LDS consider Jehovah Witnesses Christian? They believe Jesus is the son of God, but not part of the Trinity.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not formally keep track of which other faiths they believe to be Christian.

If any individual Latter-day Saint states that someone is or is not Christian he or she is expressing his or her own opinion.
 
Mormons worry over which of the followers of Smith are legit.

Christians worry over which of the followers of Jesus are legit.
 
If I am not mistaken, most Protestant denominations do not believe in the Trinity. I know for a fact that Lutherans do not, but I am not entirely sure about others. Lutherans might be the first, because, again, assuming I am not mistaken, Lutherans were one of the first Protestant denominations. Feel free to correct me politely if I am wrong.
 
There are at least 3 Trinity Lutheran Churches near me so without digging into their doctrine I would say they believe in the Trinity.
 
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As a convert from Protestantism, I’d say most do believe in the Trinity, and only a minority don’t. Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, etc. all do. There are some Pentecostals that don’t, JW’s don’t, and maybe a few others whose names escape me.
 
Why would we let Origen, a convert to Christianity from paganism, define the God of Judaism?

Official Jewish teaching is:

G-d is Incorporeal​

Although many places in scripture and Talmud speak of various parts of G-d’s body (the Hand of G-d, G-d’s wings, etc.) or speak of G-d in anthropomorphic terms (G-d walking in the garden of Eden, G-d laying tefillin, etc.), Judaism firmly maintains that G-d has no body. Any reference to G-d’s body is simply a figure of speech, a means of making G-d’s actions more comprehensible to beings living in a material world. Much of Rambam’s Guide for the Perplexed is devoted to explaining each of these anthropomorphic references and proving that they should be understood figuratively.

We are forbidden to represent G-d in a physical form. That is considered idolatry. The sin of the Golden Calf incident was not that the people chose another deity, but that they tried to represent G-d in a physical form.

1). Do you think the Jewish people should be able to define the God of Judaism?

2). Why is the LDS God different than the God of Judaism?

http://www.jewfaq.org/m/g-d.htm
 
I’m quite certain that all of Christianity, up to and immediately following the Reformation, shared a belief in the Trinity.

It was after the Reformation when these various sects emerged, changing things up.

So now there are various groups such as JW’s, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventist…that have each defined their own version of the Trinity.

So, the question is -Do Mormons recognize other sects as Christian as well?
It wouldn’t make sense if they do, IMO, because then there would be no reason to become LDS

I know that the Mormons were never fans of the JW’s, but now that the Mormons are implementing their plan of ecumenism maybe they are trying to smooth out the differences.
 
SunshineGrandma said:
So now there are various groups such as JW’s, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventist…that have each defined their own version of the Trinity.
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I feel like I’ve heard of some Mormon denomination who are Trinitarian, but I’m not sure. Do they exist?
 
Yes, most Christian denomination, especially the older ones, are Trinitarian.
 
I have never heard of that, but it doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

They would have to be Mormons who have disregarded Joseph Smith’s doctrine on the Godhead.

If they are disregarding Mormon doctrine and Joseph Smith, it’s hard to understand how they would consider themselves Mormons.

However, as we can see on this thread, LDS are constantly changing their beliefs and then claiming it was never church teaching.
 
Really? My mom was raised Lutheran and she was taught that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit were separate beings. Maybe that was just her church.
 
Fauken said:
I feel like I’ve heard of some Mormon denomination who are Trinitarian, but I’m not sure. Do they exist?
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After the death of Joseph Smith, the Mormon church split. One group, lead by Brigham Young, went to Utah. The other, (IIRC) led by others, including Smith’s widow, Emma, and their children stayed behind in Missouri as they believe Smith had set up the authority to go to his oldest son, Joseph Smith III. For many years they were known as the “Reorganized Church of JCoLDS”

I believe that this group, not called the Community of Christ (again, IIRC) may now be trinitarian, as the BoM is more trinitarian than not.
 
That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard a Mormon say- LDS don’t keep track of other Christian faiths!

So, then why do the missionaries target specific individuals and attempt to discredit their religion?

All I ever heard was Catholics do this wrong and believe this wrong…How would LDS know what Catholics believe if they weren’t keeping track?

If we all believe in Jesus, is that good enough or do I need to become LDS?
 
SunshineGrandma said:
That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard a Mormon say- LDS don’t keep track of other Christian faiths!

So, then why do the missionaries target specific individuals and attempt to discredit their religion?
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To be honest, Grandma, I would agree that Mormon don’t really keep track of individual faiths. They tend to cast them all as in a state of apostasy.

If any individual member knows about other faiths, it’s because they have studied that faith on their own time

As a whole, the Mormon faith does not put any effort into teaching it’s members about other faiths
 
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That would be interesting- a group of Mormons who follow the Book of Mormon and the Trinity
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Don’t follow the teachings of the prophet that gave them the Book of Mormon.

Whew!
 
SunshineGrandma said:
That would be interesting- a group of Mormons who follow the Book of Mormon and the Trinity
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Im not even sure they call themselves Mormon. This group goes back to, again, when the Mormon church split after Smith’s death. They are headquartered in Missouri. Not sure if they consider the D&C (Doctrine and Covenants) scripture
 
AngelaMarie said:
As a whole, the Mormon faith does not put any effort into teaching it’s members about other faiths
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In my experience, neither does the Catholic faith. And to be fair, it’s not really smart to teach your members about the strengths of other faiths, because then for what reason would they remain a member of yours? I’ve never been taught anything about other faiths besides Catholicism, in fact, I didn’t even know other religions existed besides Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Judaism before I started doing my research. I was taught nothing about other religions in CCD class.
 
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Very serious. Look back at what I said in my previous post.
Look at the website you posted. It’s by individual Mormons doing their own thing. Read the “About” like on their homepage

It’s not the Mormon Church itself teaching it’s faithful about other faiths. It’s individuals who are taking an initiative on their own
 
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