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Mormons call themselves Christian. I don’t really care if they do. It doesn’t mean anything. I look at it like this.

If you ask what a football player looks like, some people will think of this:

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and some will think of this:

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Are they both football players? Of course they are. Are they the same thing? Not at all.

It’s just a name. Get over it. Mormonites can call themselves Christians all they want. But it’s totally different from Biblical Christianity.
 
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I didn’t mean “teachings,” I meant something more along the lines of “practices,” since Mormons follow the same rules as Catholics, and then some original ones of their own. I’ll agree with you on the fact that their teachings are VERY much different from those of the Catholic church, but their social expectations are fairly consistent.

And they don’t believe in more than one God. Like I said, it’s like a king over his nobles. We don’t believe that Elohim is a God. We pray to him and ask him for guidance, but there’s only one God.

Salmonslayer, like I said, capital-G God created all the universes and sits supreme. He’s the one that judges us when we die and decides where we go.
 
Teachings are the basis of practice.

Teachings are what constitute the faith.

Practices are intended to reflect Teaching as best as possible in each age.
 
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lokisuperfan said:
And they don’t believe in more than one God.
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No, actually, they do. Here’s one example of literally hundreds:

In the hymn in which they sing praises to Joseph Smith (Praise to the Man), there’s a line that says,

“Mingling with Gods, he can plan for his brethren.
Death cannot conquer the hero again.”

“Gods” is capitalized and plural. That is not a plurality of Gods?
 
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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…
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I think you’re referring to the temple endowment where at the very end, the patron figuratively speaks with the Lord through the veil where the Lord asks certain questions about the signs and tokens that they learned in the endowment ceremony. There are four “handshakes” or tokens given. They all have names. The first is the first token of the Aaronic priesthood and its name is the new name you are given in the temple. The second is second token of the Aaronic priesthood and its name is the person’s given name on earth. The third is first token of the Melchizedek priesthood or the sign of the nail and its name is the Son. The fourth is the second token of the Melchizedek priesthood, the patriarchal grip or sure sign of the nail and its name is health in the navel, marrow in the bones, strength in the loins and in the sinews, power in the priesthood be upon me and my posterity, through all generations of time and throughout all eternity. You have to get each of them right to proceed to the next. If you have trouble doing it right or saying the right name, there is an assistant at the veil who will help you. Once you pass through the veil, you go to the Celestial Room which is symbolic of the Celestial Kingdom. There, you are allowed to sit quietly or quietly whisper to others, but mostly you are there to try to soak up the spirit and prepare yourself for God’s kingdom.

If you have any questions about the temple, I think I’m pretty well qualified to answer them. I worked as an ordinance worker in the temple.
 
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Lemuel said:
If you have any questions about the temple, I think I’m pretty well qualified to answer them. I worked as an ordinance worker in the temple.
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I heard that “in the 70s, God ‘changed his mind’ about black people”
Any idea what that’s about?
 
Yeah I know a bit about this. While the Mormon god suffers greatly from schizophrenia, such was not the case here. God did not change his mind. The suits at the top of the Mormonite totem pole changed their minds. The ban against blacks came as a result of a “negative revelation”. In other words, the suits told God that they were going to remove the ban against Blacks unless God told them not to. God was silent, resulting in a tacit approval for the suits to remove the ban. This flew in the face of previous years of revelation and doctrines which banned darkies from holding the priesthood. The church today acts like it was never doctrine or revelation. It’s actually pretty disgusting.

The bottom line is that it was ALL about the bottom line. It was financially prudent to give the priesthood to the seed of Cain.

I could write an essay on this but will spare you. I don’t have time right now anyway.

Thanks for asking!
 
Mormonism was founded in a time of racial prejudice, so that explains the racist rules regarding blacks gaining priesthood. But I’ve read through the Mormon Bible, the Book of Mormon, the D&C, and the Pearl of Great Price, and not one of them says to do anything but treat everyone as an equal within the church, so it was probably something one of the priests made up and no one ever thought to fact check it. And Joseph Smith wouldn’t have started it, because he was from the North, which was highly against slavery.
 
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lokisuperfan said:
Joseph Smith wouldn’t have started it, because he was from the North, which was highly against slavery.
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Oh boy. Not to derail the topic, but this is not accurate. Besides, being against slavery does not equal believing in racial equality.
 
No, I just said that there’s nothing in any of the Latter-Day Saints’ sacred writings that even remotely suggests that blacks are inferior, so it was not from God, rather from someone preaching false Gospel.
 
So, were the earlier Prophets misinterpreting scripture and the BOM in regards to the seed of Cain but now they interpret it correctly?
 
I find it difficult to call a religion that isn’t even monotheist ‘Christian.’
 
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If you want to look at this technically, no Christian religion is deemed ‘monotheistic’ unless they are Trinitarian.
 
It doesn’t really matter. There was an issue, and we fixed it. It’s all in the past.
 
How unfortunate then that Protestants are still considered Christians, whether your opinion be valid fact or not.
 
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