What do Mormons believe?

[SteveVH]

It is through the Church and by the Church that Jesus changed the world. Without “that error called Christianity,” as someone has defined it[16], we would not be here to speak about him. Jesus would be, today, an obscure Galilean rabbi whose name we would find only if we were to read a note on the writings of Tacitus or Flavius Josephus. There would have been no Augustine, no Francis of Assisi, no Thomas Aquinas, Luther, Pascal; there would have been no Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque churches, no Dante, no paintings of the Renaissance schools, no Michelangelo or Sistine Chapel, Bach or his Passions, Mozart and his Masses. There would, above all, have been none of the innumerable crowds of men and women who, in the name of the Christ they knew through the Church, dedicated themselves utterly to the care of suffering humanity.

Compliments of EWTN.

Thanks for this. I hope you don’t mind but I have quoted this on another thread as it is apropos to the discussion.

Thanks again.

Steve

 

[Marie5890]

By the time line of the Historical Jesus, and try explain how Christianity has so far ever last in its origins. I am racking my memory banks will bring more.

God Bless

For the vast majority of TBM’s, this would not work.
You have to understand their theology of a great apostasy and what they perceive as a need for a restoration to understand.

 

[onenow1]

For the vast majority of TBM’s, this would not work.
You have to understand their theology of a great apostasy and what they perceive as a need for a restoration to understand.

“YES”! Marie, Joseph Smith convinced his credulous followers, most of them simple rural folk, that he’d been chosen, in what Mormons have come to call the First Vision, to be the first post-apostasy prophet—God’s hand picked agent charged with restoring the true gospel.
From…Patrick Madrid…

Noting new in the world Marie, for instance Islam, shades of the same thing.

God Bless

 

[debbie_h]

The process is from the ground up, meaning any LDS member can submit any name, and they do. The BVM was proxy baptized and sealed as a spouse to the Mormon Heavenly Father in 2009. Why any Mormon would think that is necessary is beyond me.

This is just insane & frankly I find the notion that the LDS believe this about Mary is very insulting. A church claiming to be the restoration of the gospel, why didn’t Jesus just perform the sealing himself while he was alive???

 

[RebeccaJ]

This is just insane & frankly I find the notion that the LDS believe this about Mary is very insulting. A church claiming to be the restoration of the gospel, why didn’t Jesus just perform the sealing himself while he was alive???

Good question.