God Heavenly Father is an exalted man with a physical body of flesh and bone. The trinity is denied with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost seen as three separate entities. His atonement death and resurrection provides immortality for all people regardless of their faith.
Because of his atonement, everyone born on this earth will be resurrected. This condition is called immortality. See GP , pp. The Doctrine of Humanity: Historic Christianity. People are the preexisted spiritual offspring of the Heavenly Father and Mother. Exaltation godhood is available only to Mormons through obedience to LDS teachings: faith, baptism, endowments, celestial marriage, and tithing.
They will have their righteous family members with them and will be able to have spirit children also. These spirit children will have the same relationship to them as we do to our Heavenly Father.
They will be an eternal family. The onus is on you. This seems in sharp contrast to the grace-filled message of the Bible Eph. The view of faith in the Mormon scriptures differs from the Bible.
Now I ask, is this faith? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for if a man knoweth a thing he hath no cause to believe, for he knoweth it. If we knew it, there would be no need for faith. But the Bible proposes a different relationship between faith and reason. Knowledge is not the opposite of belief, as the Mormon scriptures suggest.
Rather, the Bible presents a view of faith that is based upon what we do know. Jesus healed the paralytic so the people would know that he has the authority of God Mark That distinctiveness flows from the knowledge restored to this earth, together with the power of the Holy Ghost present in the Church because of restored priesthood authority, keys, ordinances, and the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The fruits of the restored gospel are evident in the lives of its faithful members. While members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have no desire to compromise the distinctiveness of the restored Church of Jesus Christ, they wish to work together with other Christians—and people of all faiths—to recognize and remedy many of the moral and family issues faced by society.
The Christian conversation is richer for what the Latter-day Saints bring to the table. There is no good reason for Christian faiths to ostracize each other when there has never been more urgent need for unity in proclaiming the divinity and teachings of Jesus Christ. Gospel Topics Essays. Are Mormons Christian? Peace and Violence among 19th-Century Latter-day Saints.
The most oft-used reasons are the following: Latter-day Saints do not accept the creeds, confessions, and formulations of post—New Testament Christianity. Subscribers receive full access to the archives. Reviews Book Review. Gerald McDermott September 7, Our Rating.
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