Why is Mormonism growing so rapidly ?
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Several reasons.  \n\nFirstly, because it is becoming acceptable in society.  The above-mentioned Newsweek story is wonderful evidence. \n\nSecondly, because they have presented a strong image of centering on family.  Their family values and practices *are* good.  Mormons, for the most part, *are* very loving and caring people.  This is the traditional "wolf in sheep's clothing."  Satan is certainly willing to offer this in order to sell a doctrinal base as corrupted as the LDS belief system.  Furthermore, they promise family-oriented things which the Bible does not -- such as being *sealed in the temple* to your mate and your children in heaven for eternity.  Thereafter, you and your mate can birth planets and be "God" to those planets (note this is the same promise Satan gave Eve in Eden - "Ye shall be as gods" - and the reason Satan was cast out of heaven - for coveting equality with God).  Who doesn't want this on a base instinctual level???  But the Bible teaches the final goal of Christianity as perfect unity with God, and if your family is part of that "body of believers" then you will be in perfect unity with them as well.  A body is in unity with itself, right?  :)\n\nThirdly, because they are one of the richest organizations in the world, with some of the most beautiful temples I have ever seen.  They have all the money needed to propagate whatever image they desire. \n\nFourthly, yes, they go door to door.  And people starving for Truth let them in... \n\nAnd finally, because they encourage having children.  This tactic is as old as the Catholic church.  If you have children, you will raise them Mormon...and the church will grow, and so will it's influence.
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as a Mormon i have heard many things over the years and just let people know that i believe that they are wrong, and that they believe i am wrong.  i respect that everyone has their own opinions and i have mine.  people will also make fun of and challenge what is different from their beliefs.  one big thing that we get a lot is that we have more than one wife.  which is not true.  at one point in time we did, but even during that time only 2-5% were apart of polygamy.  another thing i hear a lot is that we re not Christians.  my response is yes we are.  i believe in Christ as my savior and brother to help me get through this life.  i use his teachings in the bible to guide me in what i say act and do.  if this is not a christian than i do not know what is.  getting into Joseph smith is sometimes hard to get  into with those who do not believe, but i just say i believe that he restored Christ church on earth and that he did see god and his son Jesus Christ.  people will either leave you alone or talk bad more.  hope that this helps.
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Well... i read in places that if islam continued to spread at it's current rate it would reach 100% of the world population in around 120years.\n\nWorlds fastest growing religion, while most religions are shrinking, islam is growing.
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Mormons believe that the "true" religion of christ was lost from the earth shortly after christ died.  This "true" christianity was then restored through their first prophet, Joseph Smith, in 1830 when god and jesus appeared to him and told him he had been chosen to restore the true church to the earth.  He also was visited by Moroni, supposedly a prophet from a lost race of ancient americans, who told him where to find golden plates on which was written the spiritual history of his people, similar to the bible but with all of the events taking place in ancient America.  The book he "translated" from these plates became the book of Mormon (Mormon was one of the ancient American prophets), and tells their history as well as the story of Jesus visiting the faithful in America after his resurrection.\nThey believe "as man now is, god once was...and as god now is, man may become" -- meaning that god was once a guy on a planet like us, he did good, achieved eternal life, and was given this earth to rule.  They believe that each of us can do the same, after our lives are over if we're righteous we can get our own world to create/rule over, populate with spirit children, etc.  You get to be a god!\nThey have secret rituals that are done in their temples that are derivatives of Masonic rituals, secret underwear that reminds them of the rituals done in the temples and which are supposed to protect them from harm, still hold plural marriage (polygamy) as a tenet of their religion although it's currently not practiced officially by church members.  They are adamant about collecting 10% tithing (you have to "settle" with your local church every year, showing your tax return and proving you paid your 10% to be considered a faithful member).  They're big on missionary work and getting new members, sending thousands of missionaries to every country in the world they can every year.  They believe they can do "sacraments" (baptism, temple marriages, etc.) for their relatives who have passed away and never had a chance to join the Mormon church, which will give them the chance to accept it in the afterlife.  There are other differences, but that's the gist of it :)\n\nI'm a former Mormon who did a 2-year missionary stint, and know the temple routines very well.  Send me an e-mail or IM if you want to know more.
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Mormons are Christians, first of all.  According to the teachings of the church, we must follow Christ and accept Him as our Savior.  They pray in the name of Christ, and perform all church ordinances in the name of Christ.  They sing hymns about Christ.  Christ is considered to be the Head of the church.  Yes, they believe Christ also visited the American continent after His death.  Yes, they believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and that God the Father and Jesus Christ are two separate beings, yet one in purpose.  And they believe that God continues to reveal His word to man through living prophets.  But how do these doctrines make them non-Christian?\n\nMormons study from the Bible just as much as they do from the Book of Mormon.  In fact, the curriculum for Sunday School lessons this year is the Old Testament.\n\nIf the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints only pretended that they believed in Christ, then why would people stay in the church after getting baptized?  Why would the church keep growing at such a tremendous rate if its members only pretended to believe in Christ in order to attract more converts?  More than two-thirds of its baptisms every year are convert baptisms.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the fastest growing religion of North and South America.  Joseph Smith, at a time when the church only had six members, prophesied that the church would fill North and South America, and eventually the whole world.  Brigham Young prophesied that the earth would be dotted with hundreds of temples, at a time when they were just beginning to be built.  We are seeing these prophesies fulfilled before our own eyes.\n\nSo many people have been deceived by a pack of liars, who say the Mormons aren't Christian, and consider the Mormon religion to be one of the most evil on the planet.  Christ said "Ye shall know them by their fruits."
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Mormons DO BELIEVE IN CHRIST! Their true name is in fact "The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter Day Saints" In fact as you can see from their name he is the center of their religion.  There are a lot of rumors going around like "they have 10 wives" but this is not true.  It is true that back in the 1800s they did practice polygyny (polygamy, with more than one wife), but that was only because at that time the Mormons where being kicked out of every place that they would move to, and the men would be killed by the mobs, women back then did not have the rights they have now, in order for the women to be respected was to be married.  So now that a lot of the men were being killed the only way to let the women be respected is if they have a husband, but what do you do when all of the men are taken?  This is why they started polygyny.  They believe that families can be together forever, even after death.  They believe in one hell, and 3 degrees of heaven.  They believe in the Bible, and in another book called the Book of Mormon.  This is a second testament of Jesus Christ, which teaches about Jesus Christ's coming to the Americas after his Resurrection. I Am Mormon, and I have seen many different religions, and studied many different religions too, but none of them has captured my heart as much as the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints.  I KNOW their religion to be true! and I have had many experiences to tell me that it is true.  Have faith first and then proof will come.
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The Mormon man can marry as many women as he can, as long as he can provide for them and their children.  There are several forms of marriages or relations in the Mormon faith, and some of them are called concubines.  Some practice that rule, such as Smith.  Had several wives, but didn't live with them openly.  Brigham Young had more than 50 wives, 19 were connubial wives, and with all these women had 56 children.\n\nTo answer your questions.  Yes, but many of them don't have multiple wives.  and, Yes Mormons are polygamist.  Same with the Muslims, they are permitted to have four wives at a time, plus the concubine, plus the pleasure wives, but they too, most don't have more than one wife.
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I think that Mormons have an amazing life style.  If you look in the bible and seek out the life that Christ had, you will notice that Mormons are Saints that beilive Christ, they believe EVERYTHING he has said, he says and all that he will say.  He speaks to his prophets.  God has called a prophet today to lead His children.  Mormons believe this. They are people that are far from perfect. But that's why they keep going to church, cuz they know that keeping the commandments is showing the Savior that they love him.  Jesus Christ is and always will be at the head of His church.  That's why the mormon church is really called "The Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints".  It has this name because when  Christ was on earth he had his church, being the name of Jesus Christ.  But because the people didn't believe him back then and they killed his apostals, his perfect church was lost.  So, that's why God had to call a prophet today to organize and RESTORE his true and living church on the earth today.\n                The Jehova Witnesses are God fearing people.  But we shouldn't fear God so much that we don't love him.  I've met them.  They are children of God as well.  But they change the word of God and they have no prophet and they don't believe in certain scriptures or commandments.  The seventh day adventists are good people as well.  They just have the wrong day.   If you truly know the bible, you'll see that Christ broke bread on the FIRST DAY of the week.  SUNDAY !!!!
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The only thing that comes to mind is population growth.  The more people (or whatever organisms) there are, the faster their population grows.
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Honestly, I have never heard of anyone thinking that Mormons don't believe in Christ.  That's news to me.  Mormons believe in Christ just as much as the next person.  I'm not Mormon, in fact, I was baptised Lutheran but ever since I was a kid (I'm 43 now), I've gone to quite a few churches.  I've gone to Lutheran churches, Catholic, Baptist, etc.  And I have to say, the best time I had was when I was in first grade through 5th grade as I went to church with my neighbors who were Mormons.  We did Sunday church, Wednesday was primary school (I can still hear the song in my head), and Monday nights I was always invited to participate in their family home evenings.  It was a great experience!
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Way too many. Here is a good link to do some research.\n\nhttp://www.carm.org/mormon.htm\n\nMormons not only claim to be Christians, but to be the only true Christians. According to them, the early Christian church went through an apostacy, lost the true teaching of God, and is built on a Bible that, according to them, is translated incorrectly and is missing many books.\n\nInterestingly, while LDS Church president Gordon Hinckley assures the press that "the New Testament is a fundamental scripture for us," (Note 1) he fails to point out the Mormons' bias against the Bible.\n\nArticle 8 of the Mormon Articles of Faith (Note 2) says, "We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it has been translated correctly." This approach allows Mormons to ignore key Bible Scriptures which refute Mormon doctrines. Bible verses used to counter Mormon teachings are brushed off in favor of passages from the Book of Mormon and other Mormon scriptures (as well as ongoing revelation that often contradicts previous LDS Church teachings).\n\nIt should be noted that the LDS Church has published its own version of the King James Bible, incorporating footnotes explaining what corrections from Joseph Smith's "inspired version" of the Bible (a version full of errors and plagiarized material) should be taken into account.\n\nHowever, in spite of their efforts at revisionism, Mormons have not been able to support their claims. On the contrary. While Mormon allegations regarding the Bible and the course of Christianity are refuted by history, archeology, and other sciences, the scriptures of the Mormon church are problematic at every turn. Far from showing us so-called 'restored truth,' they are testimonies to the deceptive nature of Mormonism.
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Not always. Remember the Flood in Genesis? Or the hurricane in New Orleans? Or the influenza epidemic in the early 1900's? But God is expanding his creation, just not always. He told Abraham that his descendents would be as numorous as the grains of sand. Humans have certainly expanded over the years.
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You're right.  \n\nAs man becomes more intelligent, the nonsense of religion just becomes more and more ludicrous.\n\nIt's dying fast.\n\nChurches are almost empty now.  Even those people who pretend to be religious would rather be in the DIY superstore on a Sunday instead of church.\n\nWere it not for the vast wealth of the churches, which they acquired through stealing all those years ago, Christianity plc would now be bankrupt.
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Trinity3 obviously is an authority on what isn't true.\nThere are more members of the LDS church outside the USA and Canada then there are inside.  There are also more non-English speakers in the church than English speakers in the church with Spaninsh being the largest portion of that group.  I can assure you that there are plenty of minorities in the church.
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Hahhaha, I've never heard that, but it wouldn't surprise me.  Mormons ARE NOT Christians, and if they did do something as bizarre as that, that would just further cement the fact that they are some strange cult-ish following.
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They aren't, they aren't even CLOSE to it.  They can't complete with the sheer numbers of Islamic converts and those in Christianity.  It's a bald faced lie that alot of religions tell to make themselves look good.  As a matter of fact they are losing ground to non-believers and pagan religions just like all the others.  Percentage-wise their growth is stagnant like all other religions counting those coming in and going out.  While the numbers going in are good, like most religions, those leaving are even greater.  \nhttp://www.listology.com/content_show.cf...\n\nTop 10 Fastest Growing Religions in the US by baker \nSikh 18,900.0 \nHindu 810.0 \nMuslim 537.5 \nBuddhist 290.0 \nBaha’i 117.4 \nEvangelical Christians 42.8 \nOrthodox 28.4 \nRoman Catholic 14.2 \nJews -16.4 \nAnglican -27.3
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Depends on who you ask or where you look. Here are 2 different articles with different data.\n\n\n\nThere are more new Christians added to the world population than any other religion on earth every day. This data makes the entire discussion about "rates of growth" irrelevant. The fact is today, that Christianity is the fastest growing religion on this most critical basis. This may change, but today, in 2004 AD, Christians take the prize for being the fastest growing religion. \nOn none of the 6 continents are Muslims the fastest growing religion. \nThat Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world is pure myth at best and at worst a deliberate deception of solid statistical facts.\n\n\n[edit] Buddhism\nAverage annual growth of 16% / 31,600 for the period 1996 to 2001 (200,000→358,000 - Australian data) [1] \n\n[edit] Falun Gong\nno reliable data available - established in 1992, estimates for 1999 range from 2 million [2] to 100 million [3] \n\n[edit] Christianity\nThe U.S. Center for World Mission claimed a growth rate of 2.3% for the period 1970 to 1996, (slightly higher than the world population growth rate at the time). This increased the percentage Christians from 33.7% to 33.9%. \nChristianity is estimated to receive 2,500,000 converts a year.[1] \n\n[edit] Islam\nAverage annual growth of 5% / 10,228,750 claimed for the period of 1935 to 1983 (209,020,000→700,000,000) [4] but note that this value is unreliable as these rates are calculated from two separate sources, which may have used different counting rules. \nUnited Nations' survey showed that between 1989 and 1998, Europe's Muslim population grew by more than 100 percent. Today, about 13 million Muslims live in Western Europe: 3.9 million in Germany, 3.3 million in Britain, 7.5 million in France, and the rest in other countries. [5]. Global warming may accelerate Muslim migration to Europe. [6] \nOntario Consultants on Religious Tolerance have a claim of 2.9% per year \nIt is estimated to receive 865,000 converts a year.[2] \nIn 2006 countries with a Muslim majority have an average population growth rate of 1.8% per year (when weighted by percentage Muslim and population size)[7]. This compares with a world population growth rate of 1.12% per year. [8] \n\n[edit] Non-Religious\nAverage annual growth of 10% / 1,372,727 for the period 1990 to 2001 (14,300,000→29,400,000 - U.S. data) [9],[10] \n\n[edit] Wicca\nAverage annual growth of 143% / 11,454 for the period 1990 to 2001 (8,000→134,000 - U.S. data / similar for Canada & Australia) [9],[10]