Get real. Mormonism is only 178 years old and you already have many splinter groups. There seems to be a new one every year. By the time you are two thousand years old like the Catholic Church, you will have thousands of splinter groups.
Wow, I didn’t know that simply explaining the Nicene Creed to Mormons would drive them out of Mormonism and into the Catholic Church.
Only because the mormons have redefined the meaning of nearly every word in the creed. When you say “We believe in one God”, they will say they agree, but they have redefined “one” and “God” to have completely different meanings than what we mean when we say them.
Rebecca, a brief correction: Christ transforms us from sinners into images of Himself as He brings us to ever-greater perfection by His grace. The Church, as Christ’s Body which can not be separated from Him, already has this in all its fullness (if it did not we would have no access to His perfection which flows from Him to the members); i.e., the Church is perfect, but the individual members reflect its perfection to varying degrees. The full manifestation of the Church’s perfection, of course, awaits the Parousia.
I like that fully human and fully divine part, that only makes sense. The charism of papal infallibility, well, let’s not go there yet.
Now this is the part Ihave trouble with. I believe what split the East and West rites was some matter called the filoque, a minor edit to the Nicene Creed. Now it’s a matter of what people believe and if some one wants to know what is right or wrong, what are they to think? How do you tolerate different beliefs, opposing beliefs even, and still support the other group’s claim to Apostolic Succession? And what about the Protestants? They do not even claim A.S. but I suppose they are still, in some respect, “the body of Christ”?
You are in the minority among LDS people.
They can’t claim it, because when they split they didn’t even want to maintain the passing on of Apostolic Succession and so they didn’t. They may not have a priesthood stretching back to the Apostles, but they are our “separated brethren”.
Because we are still one church, in schism. The difference in opinion regarding filoque is small, and I know RC who find nothing wrong with the Orthodox view. There are also Orthodox who don’t view this difference as small.
So, I just leave myself out of those arguments.By virtue of their baptism, which is valid as it is done as the Catholic Church intends. That doesn’t mean that we don’t have doctrinal differences. We do, in some cases, very wide differences. But the essentials (found in the Credo) are the same.
This Time article from 1997?time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986794,00.html
No, we believe God is three persons in one being. Mormons believe God is three beings; or that is what I was told my Mormons in high school.
If that is true, then you have not explained it correctly or mormonism has recently redefined their God.
You are correct. The LDS teach three distinct persons and three Gods.
Whoa, whoa, time out. I haven’t read through all the posts but I have to say to you that God created man and everything else, how can he NOT know it? That is like me saying I made dinner but I have no idea what is for dinner?
Dude, you know full well what Paul is saying. The Mormon godhead for earth is three distinct beings, two of which are corporeal, and live on a planet near the star kolob, and one being of pure spirit. If you don’t think Mormon scripture teaches this, see Doctrine & Covenants 130:22:
Sorry. Feel the need to clarify. Mormons believe in three personages. And my granddaughter’s primary lesson was on my daughter’s refrigerator. All my grandchildren are taught in their LDS primary that god and Jesus (yeah, two sparate “personages”) have “flesh and bones–just like them”.
Thanks for the link. Yes mormons believe in three God, so they are three beings just like I was told in high school.
Why do mormons on CA forum act like they are like Christians?
Uhhh…What?!
It is man which learns through experience. God however is not a part of time and does not participate in change or mutability. God knows everything simply because He is. He does not have to experience human life to know what it is about. God does not have to do evil to know that evil is bad(as your logic would show). God simply knows. That said, God is omniscient. There is nothing that is hid from God, not even thoughts.
But it does make sense. You make a dinner of something you have never tasted. You give it to guests and they love the taste. Can you make the same claim if you never tasted the food? I don’t think so. God would have no idea of human experience unless he was also in human form.
The level of ‘hatred’ directed at mormonism will have its effect, especially on the Internet. Reading comments from supposed christians about mormonism and its evils I have to wonder just how cunning satan may be. The mormon church is a much hated church by people professing to be christian. And yet, the mormon message of loving god and obeying his commandments and keeping the body holy for the holy ghost to dwell in, seems to get the evil pumping around the lds church. In some strange way, it can show that satan is hard at work in undermining the lds church. And even on this section of the forum, the hatred is deep. The whole trinity contention is one example. To me it is comparing a macintosh apple to a Washington big red. Both are apples and in the end, it makes very little difference.
