What do you know about Mormons?  What do they believe?  How do they live?
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To counter some of the misinformation of the previous answers:\n\nMormons "don't have sex" --actually Mormons DO have sex, just not supposed to before marriage and thereafter only with the person you are married to. \n\nMormons "don't drink caffeine" --actually a lot of Mormons do. What is not partaken of is Coffee, Tea, or any Alcohol. \n\nMormons "have millions of kids" --actually they only have a half millions kids. ;) There is currently no doctrine as to how many children families should have. Officially: Husband and Wife should decide (with God's help) how many children to have. \n\nMormons "have arranged marriages" --actually, I live in the heart of Mormonville and have NEVER heard of or seen a single Mormon couple wedded that had an arranged marriage. Official doctrine: it is your choice, not anyone else's. \n\nMormons "believe they are each going to get their own planet" --I dare you to find any high ranking Mormon leader within the last 100 years that has said anything to further that idea. \n\nMormons "also believe in polygamy" --Actually they only believe in it as much as most other Christians, that it was once practiced, but is no longer sanctioned. What Christian could say anything different? Abraham anyone? Isaac? Jacob? Yeah, so Mormons practiced it more recently than Christianity at large--but it is no longer practiced and any member who does practice it is excommunicated. \n\nAnd as for having a list as long as your arm as to what can get you cast into 'outer darkness'?? I would surely like to see that list as I have never even heard of it. As far as I've known in my 20+ years as a Mormon, you could count on one hand the things that will get you cast in to 'outer darkness' (one of the usages of "Hell"). \n\nPlease people, don't speak unless you know what you are talking about. It just gets so annoying.
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www.lds.org  go to basic believes. \n\nI wouldn't believe any of these others who told you crap about the church. I've researched every question I've heard about the church and I've always from answers from our scholars. The problem most people seem to have is they accept the word of so called "scholars" that supposedly had already asked the churches scholars about all these "facts" of why the church is wrong. These "scholars" never ask the churches responses in any of their publication, but always say they do, a pure lie. This makes the reader of these lies and deceptions believe that there is no answer other than what they just read.\n\nIf you want to know the truth for YOURSELF I challange you to talk to the LDS missionaries and read the Book of Mormon for yourself. If it is of God you will know it to be, if it is not you will know it to be. Read it and ask God in prayer if it is true. I read the book and found every part to agree wholeheartedly with the bible which I have read several times. I have prayed about it and know it to be a testimony of Jesus christ, a true book.
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your right. MORMONS THINK IT! \n The Holy Bible nor God Himself thinks it. Period.\n\nDead people are just that. Dead people. Jesus Himself said: "Let the dead bury the dead".\n YOU can't touch a dead person's soul.  End of Story.\n  \n   I think one would be wise to concentrate on Respecting \nthe Living as opposed to Disrespecting the dead. \n The Holy Bible will show you ways to do this. I have yet to read anything here on Yahoo about it.\n\nTo: destinepyle: Read Romans 10-9-10 Each one of us will give account of ourselves to God.\n How can a Mormon give account for another person? using a Holy Bible?  not they're own Bingham version?
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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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Yes, Mormons are Christians.\n\nMormons practiced polygamy until 1890.  It was then abolished.  For more information about the abolishment of polygamy, go here: http://scriptures.lds.org/od/1.\n\nAs far as the Bible, we believe the Bible to believe the word of God as far as it is translated correctly.  There are some mistranslations in the Bible, and as far as the translations are true, the Bible is true in our eyes.\n\nWe do not have our "own Bible".  We do however have the Book of Mormon.  It does not replace the Bible.  To best explain it, it is another set of historical and spiritual documents that were translated into English (just like the Bible was).  For more information about exactly what the Book of Mormon is, go here: http://scriptures.lds.org/bm/intrdctn.\n\nLet me know if you have any further questions.\n\n(Modification:  All scriptures that the Mormons, aka LDS, uses can be found in their entirety here: http://scriptures.lds.org/contents.
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That a girl, keep up the good fight. It's funny to watch people respond. They give you a link to a lying anti-mormon video, and expect that it will change your mind. Ha! People like that don't rely on faith. \n\nSome of those who make it their mission to attack the church believe that they are honest. They take the stand which they believe their conscience requires. There are many more, who feel that the Mormon church deserves their contempt. These people do not feel constrained to stick with the truth. Many misrepresentations and falsehoods are deliberately used if it achieves their objective of further discrediting the LDS church.\n\nMany people do not feel that a just God would allow some of the evils which are so prevalent. Or they may also question why a loving Father doesn't answer our questions in a more straightforward and direct manner. But they overlook the essential ingredient in the Plan of Salvation, that we need to choose for ourselves what is right. And that choice can not be too simple or we haven't actually chosen, we have simply picked the obvious. How we choose will be built upon faith that we are doing the right thing. Hugh B. Brown has said, "Man cannot live without faith, because in life's adventure the central problem is character-building--which is not a product of logic, but of faith in ideals and sacrificial devotion to them."\n\nI believe that the Lord continues to keep the information we have balanced. If the opposition is getting too strong then he will reveal additional knowledge that will build faith. If a testimony can be built only on logic, then he will allow the adversary to add some additional information to encourage study, soul searching and prayer. The type of knowledge we gain may also be geared to our level of understanding. The stronger challenges might come to those who have the stronger testimonies. There are those who have as their goal to present attacks against the church that will be stronger than the testimonies of those to whom they are speaking. It is my goal to provide an answer to those critics. Let us realize that the critics will be there, but we need to be balanced in our understanding. Many criticisms can actually build faith if they are correctly understood. With the information available we can either build faith or create doubt depending on the perspective we use to analyze the data.
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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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I am LDS as well, Destiney did a great job with answering your question, I'm impressed about all the time she put into it.\n\nIgnore all these people who arn't members but say they know more than we do about our own religion. They don't. And if you have questions you may ask me and I'll do my best to answer.\n\nYes we do believe that Jesus died for us and suffered for our sins. However as destiney stated several times just because we ask for forgiveness and to be saved does not mean we will go to heaven. We must follow the commandments and do our best to follow a christ like life and when our lives our over we will be judged on what we have done.\nRev 20:12   "and I saw the dead, small and great, stand before god, and the books were opened and another book was opened which is the book of live, and the DEAD were JUDGED out of those things which were written in the books, according to their WORKS".\n\nThis states clearly that we will decide where we will end up by what we do here on earth.\nWhy would Christ tell us to keep the commandments and be humble, forgiving, charitable, caring, exc. If we did not need to? If we only needed to ask to go do heaven? Why would Paul and other apostles teach in their epistles to new members of the church to follow the commandments and tell them to repent if they were already saved?\n\nThe reason the apostles existed were to teach the members of the church true doctrine and call them to repentece, why did they need to exist if all people needed to do was ask to be saved? There were extremly neccessary through the scriptures as satan tried to mislead the saints constantly. The apostles guided the church and recieved revelation for that was neccessary for it's members at that time.\n\nIt is very clear as you look through history how neccessary the apostles were. After they were all murdered the church had no authority. The bishops of the time were all confused about church doctrine because there were no apostles to ask about it. After those bishops died the church did no know how to appoint new bishops for it's masses, as the apostles were the only ones who had appointed and chose those under them. The bishops were chosen by majority vote of the people. This eventually led to small wars, assasination and violence as to who would be bishop. \nLater new doctrines were added to the church. The trinity (or legos as it was called by the gnostics who started teaching it) began to be taught and became an enforced doctrine by constantine (who was not a christian at the tiime but a sun worshiper). He established the Cathlic church and changed the sacrament, baptism, bishop requirments, just a couple from off the top of my head. All churches branched from the Cathlic church. \nNow there are about 600,000 different denominations of christianity. \n\nYou might be interested in knowing that we did not branch from any church and believe in revelation from God. We have the original organization of the church, like the twelve apostles, the presidency of the church. We believe that God loves us just as much as the people in the scriptures, and we need as much need of direction, if not more, than those people (as you can constantly see in the differences of christians worldwide). Therefore we have a prophet and twelve apostles who have the authority of God to teach and direct us, just like God had in the original church. \n\nIf you are interested in learning more feel free to contact me, or the missionaries of the church, and ask any question you need to.
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I'm LDS.  \n\nIt is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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Mormons believe: God is an exalted man.  Elohim, the God of this universe, was previously a man in a prior existence.  As a result of having kept the requirements of Mormanism, he was exalted to godhood and inherited his own universe.  God is confined to a body of flesh and bones and yet is thought to be omniscient and omnipotent.  He obviously can not be omnipresent.  There are an infininte number of gods with their own worlds.  These too were previously men, The Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ and "Heavenly Father" comprise 3 separate and distinct gods. Heavenly Father sires spiritual children in heaven destined for human life on earth.  All humans, as well as Jesus Christ and Lucifer, are gods heavenly children.  Every human being has the potential of becoming a god by keeping the requirements of Mormonism.  The Morman plan of salvation is built on the idea that all people have eternal life, but only the most faithful Mormons have godhood or enter the celestial kingdom.  In order to obtain this ultimate step, Mormons must exercise faith in the God of Mormonism, its Christ, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; exercise repentence; and be baptisted in the LDS church.  Additionaly Mormons must keep the "Word of Wisdom" by abstaning from alcohol, tobacco, and caffiene; tithe to the church; attend weekly sacrament meetings; support the Mormon prophet; do temple works; and be active in their support of the Church.  \n\nIs this Christianity, I think not.
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Yes, Mormons do believe that.  But, like someone already stated, they believe that we were all brothers in sisters in the "Spirit World" (where our souls lived before getting a physical body here on earth).\n\nThey believe that there was a council in the Spirit World, where God ("Heavenly Father"), wanted to conceive a plan for humans to be able to return back to Him.\n\nAccording to Mormon belief, Satan's idea was to make everyone faithful to God and to not give free will to humans.\n\nHowever, Jesus' idea was to give humans the ability to choose with their hearts who to follow.  It basically was the concept that being worshiped by choice is much more rewarding than being worshiped by force or not having any other option.\n\nMormons believe there was a "war in heaven" between Jesus and Satan.  God chose Jesus' idea, which made Satan rebel.  While Jesus was made "Savior," Satan was thrown out of heaven.  With him went 1/3 of the spirits - those who chose to rebel, as well.
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I am a Mormon myself. I have been my whole life.  Mormons are CHRISTIANS. The name of our church is The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-Day Saints.  We basically have the same beliefs as other Christian religions. We belive in God, Jesus the Savior, and the Holy Spirit. We believe in baptisim. We believe strongly in the Bible.  The main difference is that we have The Book of Mormon also that we have a testimony of, just like we do the Bible. The Book of Mormon is another testiment of Jesus Christ. When Jesus came to the American continent. \n\nWe do not critize any other religion, that is not Christian like to do so. Also because our beliefs are basically the same. We believe in Heaven and Hell. The Plan of Salvation that God has for us.  We believe that Jesus Christ died for us, to allow us to be able to repent humbly and Jesus will remember our sins NO more if we do so. \n\nI hope this is not too confusing. I could go on for hours. Thanks for the question though\n\nKayla\n\nBTW-- We have not changed the Book Of Mormon over and over again. It was written by Latter-Day prophets back when Jesus was on earth.  In order to see for yourself, contact a local active Mormon near you and ask them for a Book of Mormon. First read Moroni chapter 10. Pray to have understanding of The Book of Mormon and to be able to feel the Holy Spirit as you read The Book of Mormon. \n:)
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Mormons are Christian.  The difference is doctrine like the many different facets of Christianity.
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I was married to a mormon once, and her daddy was a bishop.  For her sake I tried to validate mormonism, but Joseph Smith was a lying con artist who victimized the weak and ignorant.  This is based on the mormons version of the mormon history.\n\nBeyond that, their doctrine is a perversion of Biblical truth on almost every point of their doctrine.
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What bothers me most about Mormons are their false scriptures and false prophets. They have three false scripture-the book of Mormon, a Pearl of Great Price and Doctrines and Covenants. Starting with the founder Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and all their church presidents are false prohphets. What changes would I recommend. Throw out their scriptures, read their Bibles and forget about their prophets. \n\nA short summary for those not familiar with Mormonism\n\n\nThe Mormon church has some very unusual doctrines and beliefs and is considered to be a cult by most conventional Christian denominations.\n\nFor example, they believe their God has a number of heavenly wives. They believe God lives on a planet near a star names Kolob. They believe that they can become gods in the afterlife. They believe in a three tiered heaven which can only be reached through works including marriage to another mormon. Single Mormons can not reach this third level of their heaven. They believe their God used to be a man of flesh and bones and later became God. They believe God came down to earth as a man to impregnate the virgin Mary. \n\nThey believe Satan and Jesus are brothers. They believe everyone has two sets of parents-heavenly parents that create spirit babies and the earthly parents who create the bodies into which these supposed spirt babies go. The reason Mormons have so many children is that they believe that there are a surplus of spirit babies and so members are encouraged to have as many babies as possible to make a place for the spirit bodies to live.\n\nThey believe in marrying and baptizing all their dead relations into the Mormon church, hence the interest in geneology. They have also baptized most dead US presidents and a number of holocaust victims until they got quite a few complaints from members of the Jewish faith. \n\nThe church is very controlling and a person must pass an interview with a church official each year to get a temple recommend pass-this includes a promise of tithing, believing the prophets, work in the church, etc. \n\nThe mormon church was founded by Joseph Smith a local ne'r do well, who spent most of his time treasure hunting, and one day ta-dah he discovered supposedly gold plates from the angel Moroni in New York. The book of Mormon, as opposed to the Bible is historically and archeologically unsound. For example, Bethlehem and Jericho existed. Not so for the locations in the book of Mormon. Joseph Smith as a child made up lots of involved stories regarding Indians and other inhabitants of America. Not so surprisingly the same type of stories are in his book of Mormon, which he claimed came down on gold plates from God. According to Mormon doctrines dark skinned people were dark skinned because of a "curse" placed on them.
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These other answers are funny.  Mormons do not only date and marry mormons.  All you need to know is we believe in Christ as the son of God- if you can't see that you won't get far with this girl at all.  Some basic things- We believe are salvation can only come through Christ, we believe the Bible and the Book of Mormon to be the word of God, we believe in our churches being lead by actual revelation from God- rather than anyone trying to interpret the Bible for us.  If you'd like to know more my email is Flournoi@yahoo.com  I have a site you might be interested in too.