What is the Mormen religion??
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The Church no longer, and hasn't for the better part of a century, practiced polygamy.\n\nWhen Jesus Christ lived on the earth, He organized His Church so that all people could receive His gospel and return one day to live with God, our Heavenly Father. After Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, His Apostles continued to receive revelation from Him on how to direct the work of His Church. However, after they were killed, members changed the teachings of the Church that He had established. While many good people and some truth remained, this Apostasy, or general falling away from the truth, brought about the withdrawal of the Church from the earth. The Apostle Peter prophesied that Jesus would restore His Church before His Second Coming (Acts 3:19–21).\n\nJesus Christ began to restore His Church in its fulness to the earth through the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1820. It has grown to become a worldwide Church with over 12 million members. It has the same teachings and basic organization as the Church established by Jesus in New Testament times.\n\nThe websites listed have all the information you would ever need...
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I don't see any listed here:\nhttp://oahsperesources.mccooknet.com/\n\nThey don't seem to advertise:\n http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithists_of_Kosmon
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never heard of Molokans, but keep in mind its not your religion that ostresized you, its a religious group.  As long as you still believe that way then thats what matters.  An excommunicated catholic could still be a christian.
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They call themselves Christian, but they deny the deity of Jesus.\n\nThat all by itself makes them a cult.\nAnd Jesus and Satan were not brothers, either.\n\n(Besides, I don't want a heaven that is merely another planet from which I will start another human race. That's just too creepy to me.)
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that they can become gods . have sputural children and have there own planet .wifes . and my ex, brother in law was a mormon . ever see those silly underwear that they wear. looks very silly. being sealed in there temples for all time ref. www. mormonnomore. no masnknows my history. ?
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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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Yes, but the converse is also true.  Mormen men only gain salvation through their wives.  Its a package deal in Mormonism. Families are a very big deal in Mormon theology. According to strict mormon theology only married couples can recieve exhaltation the highest level of salvation. Many mormons will disagree since they dont know their own theology as well as they should.
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They believe in some sort of God, but their god is some type of alien.\n\nWhile Scientologists acknowledge Jesus Christ as a great spiritual teacher, Scientology doctrine is not based on the teachings of Jesus.  Scientology has its roots in Nihayana Buddhism, and Scientology therefore acknowledges Siddharta Gautama as an exalted spiritual teacher. \nScientology however is not a philosophy of "faith" or "belief", but an application of practical principles to one's life in order to improve conditions.\n \n\nThey believe that your body is invaded with aliens that were banished from their planet a million years ago. And that when you are born, you have the spirits of about 2,000 aliens that you must rid yourself of. They call them Body Thetons (sp?) There's a book by Ron L Hubbard, called Dianetics (Sp?) in which this "religion" is based upon.... \n\nload of nutters if you ask me\n\nas for the amount of celebrities that get involved with it all i can say is they must be very bored with their lives and have way too much money that it has clouded their judgement.
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Here is a good link about Russian Orthodox beliefs and history. They are not Catholics.\n\nhttp://countrystudies.us/russia/38.htm
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Try going to the Morman Church. They have birth records going back hundreds of years.
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Just to add on to the first answerer's list...\n\nhttp://www.godchecker.com\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Deities_by_association\n\nAnd ignore the crazy Christians. As usual, they don't know what they're talking about.
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Wow! I never linked them together but these similarities are uncanny. The Mormons believe that God use to be a man, I don't think that the restoration movement teaches this.
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This site has links to groups who worship polytheistic deities from various cultures (Germanic, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Celtic, etc.)\nhttp://www.thetroth.org/memsvc/stewards/flyers/benw/reconflyer.pdf    (links are at the end of the essay)\n\nA more updated site for those who worship Celtic deities:\nhttp://paganachd.com/faq/index.html\n\nA good site about modern polytheism:\nhttp://www.manygods.org.uk/index.html
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not a religion, it's a cult!!
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Jehovah's Witnesses have the true religion.
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They are a cult, for sure.  Go here...\nhttp://www.rickross.com/groups/yahweh.html