Divorce is allowed but most bishops do everything they can to save the marriages. If the marriage was sealed in the temple, there’s a process to get the sealing removed or canceled, similar to a Catholic annulment, although much easier to get.And are the Mormons vows for life to that one Marriage and divorce is not allowed?
The answer is simple: because too many Catholics are no longer properly taught about their faith by their Catholic parents. One learns about their faith primary from one’s parents while growing up: be it Catholics, Mormons, Protestants, Orthodox, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, etc…My question is: Why do so many Catholics not follow the Catholic Church’s teachings despite the Church having a much stronger intellectual tradition, more evidence, and a much stronger claim to have the truth than any other religion? Why higher percentages of Mormons (and Evangelicals) appear to follow natural law on abortion, gay marriage, etc. than self-professed Catholics"do?
And it should not frighten you that in the Church the bad are many and the good few. For the Ark, which in the midst of the Flood was a figure of this Church, was wide below and narrow above, and at the summit measured but one cubit (Genesis vi, 16). And we are to believe that below were the four-footed animals and serpents, above the birds and men. It was wide where the beasts were, narrow where men lived: for the Holy Church is indeed wide in the number of those who are carnal minded, narrow in those who are spiritual. For where she suffers the morals and beastly ways of men, there she enlarges her bosom. But where she has the care of those whose lives are founded on spiritual things, these she leads to the higher place; but since they are few, this part is narrow. Wide indeed is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction; and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate that leadeth to life; and few there are that find it!
Is this really true - that the Mormon God is a creature? Then who created him?…their god is a creature…
Please share examples in which Latter-day Saint doctrine changed.I wouldn’t ask you to explain why the Mormon church changes its doctrine. I have been there. I already know.
As a devout Latter-day Saint I’m always curious to hear how former Latter-day Saints undergo changes in doctrinal belief. How does the doctrine of the Trinity sit with you, if you care to share? Thanks in advance.Hello there I am exmormon actually. Was a member my whole life. While I agree on some points of what you said I have to let you know LOTS of Mormons are resigning! If you go to exmormon on Reddit there are 176,000 members! The age of technology has helped members learn the truth about the history and doctrines. Another fact half of all Mormons are inactive. It’s true however that the devout ones are very faithful!
I am studying Catholicism and learning hoping to join soon! Ty
I’m a devout Latter-day Saint and believe you are mistaken in your understanding. However, I’d like to understand what you believe “creature” means. Thanks.Being a devout Mormon is not really a good thing, because it is devout idolatry (their god is a creature), which is incompatible with supernatural faith.
The 17 August 1949 official Mormon statement from the first presidency on Blacks and the priesthood was declared as doctrine.Please share examples in which Latter-day Saint doctrine changed.
The Prophet Joseph Smith himself publicly taught the doctrine the following year, 1844, during a funeral sermon of Elder King Follett: “God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! … It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know that we may converse with him as one man converses with another, and that he was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself did.”
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org...may-be-accepted-as-official-doctrine?lang=eng“This is a doctrine which delighted President Snow, as it does all of us. Early in his ministry he received by direct, personal revelation the knowledge that (in the Prophet Joseph Smith’s language), ‘God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens,’ and that men ‘have got to learn how to be Gods … the same as all Gods have done before.’
This is very interesting. I am not a Mormon, but I believe in something quite similar. There is an Universal God(s) as well as Planetary Gods. So when we worship, we are really worshiping the local ‘Earth’ God who was of course created by the Universal God. I wonder where the Mormon belief originated. Does Smith claim that this was revealed to him or did the ‘tablets’ say so?The Mormon god is not the single self-actualized principle of all being, but a divinized being with a distinct beginning among a multiplicity of such beings. Created human beings walking the earth now aspire to become the same (a misunderstanding of orthodox theosis).
So it looks like these are not actual beliefs in their scripture, but just somethings that some of their leaders have claimed over the years. Which part of this list is actually accepted by all Mormons?It’s interesting that you mention the “tablets”. The Book of Mormon which supposedly came from the tablets does not even closely describe the God of Mormonism. Read the Book of Mormon and see what it says about:
God having once been a man. Nothing
God having worked out his salvation as a mortal and earning Godhood. Nothing
God having fathered Jesus by sexual relations with Mary. Nothing
God having a body of flesh and bones. Nothing
God being a polygamist. Nothing
I could go on …
So do a lot of us. So do a lot of us.I wonder where the Mormon belief originated.