What is the differences between a mormon and christain/baptist.?
475966
The diferences between Mormons and Christians/Baptists are so many and so great that mainline Christians almost universally consider Mormons to be unsaved cult members and not Christians.\n\nFor one thing, Mormons do not consider Jesus to be God. A Christian believes in the Trinity-God being made up of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.\n\nMormons consider Jesus to be a brother of satan and merely a man. Christians believe that Jesus is also God. Christians believe that one cannot deny the Jesus of the Bible and be saved. \n\nMormons believe that God was once a man and later became God. They believe that God has a number of heavenly wives and that God lives near a star called Kolob. They believe that Jesus was conceived by God coming to earth as a man and having phsyical relations with the virgin Mary. Christians believe that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and that Mary was still a virgin at his birth.\n\nMormons believe everyone has two sets of parents-spiritual parents and earthly parents. They believe they are first born as spirits and then sit around until a couple on earth conceives a baby and then they are assigned a body. Mormons have a lot of children because their church has told them that there are a surplus of spirit babies waiting for earthly bodies, so it is the church members responsibility to provide them. \n\nThe men of the Mormon church in the 1800s were encouraged to take multiple wives so they could create a lot of eartly babies for these spirit babies. Many times women were strong-armed into accepting additional wives into their families because they were told by their husband and the church leaders that they wouldn't get into heaven if they disagreed. \n\nYoung women who might not want to marry an old guy with several wives already were also told that they wouldn't get into heaven if they didn't marry some old geezer they didn't like.\n\nUpon marrying women were given a new spiritual name and so were their husbands. The men would know the woman's name but not vica versa. This was so the man could supposedly call his wife into heaven someday. It was also kind of hung over her head that she had to be obedient or her husband wouldn't call her into heaven.\n\nIt is my understanding that until recently the Mormon church in some of its special ceremonies had participants pretend to cut their throats or tear out their organs if they would leave the church. \n\n\nMormons actually believe that they will each become gods someday and rule heavens. Christians believe that men are men, that men do not become gods. Christians do not have this strange spiritual belief and pride that Mormons do.\n\n Mormons believe in heavenly marriages. Jesus taught that marriages are just while people are on earth. Mormons perform "eternal" marriages in their temples in the belief that in the afterlife when they think they are gods and godesses that they can make lots of spirit babies which in turn will be sent to earth to some human couple who conceives.\n\nMormons believe in baptizing the dead into their church, so frequent baptisms are held in their temple for ancestors of Mormons who they believe may not have been baptized into the Mormon church. They have also taken upon themselves to baptized most dead US presidents as well as a number of Jewish holocaust victims, until a number of those of the Jewish faith complained. \n\nThis is why Mormons are so interested in genealogy. They want to marry and baptize all these dead people.\n\nMormons believe in a three tiered heaven-a telestial, terrestial, and celestial heaven. They believe that only married Mormons can attain their highest level of heaven (celestial), so single Mormons are always encouraged to look attractive and find a mate so they can make the highest level. \n\nChristians believe in one heaven, not a multi-tiered one. Christians don't believe being married has any affect on their status in heaven.\n\nTo get into a Mormon temple to b
834453
Remember that Christ fortold about false prophets, I believe the Book of Mormon is  false prophecy,  I believe that a dedicated Christian church, one that follows  scripture, believes in baptism (full submerssion)and follows Christs teachings is the best answer.  I know many Catholics that were not finding the relationship with God that was intended by him,  and they started going to a Christian Church and now have that relationship.  I have confronted Jehovas witnesses and I believe that they are brain washed,and are following cult like practices.  As far as holiday's go--  be with your family and share God,  forget the malls and the decor,   on Christmas remember that God loves us enough to give us a savior, and on easter remember that Jesus loves us so much that he gave his life.
490481
I am a christian and i dont belive that Joseph smith is a true prophet of God. Nor do i believe that the lds church is christian. Since they belive in earning them selfes in heaven. Just ask them, this is what they belive. There is no eternal marriage Jesus said there is no reason for it that is why we have a marriage till death do you part. Speaking as a true christian and not as other.
171110
1. Baptist are those protestant Christians who are characterized by a belief in believers baptism by emersion.\n2, fundamentalist believe that the bible is the inerrant exact word for word literal word of god without any mixture of error \n3. Independent means they are not members of either the Southern or Northern associations. They do have their own association.
922935
It really depends on where you go as to what kind of experience you're going to get.\n\nI'm Pagan, but I attend church with my Mormon parents-in-law when I visit them in Virginia, but I've never heard a single word uttered about Joseph Smith, and I've heard many about Jesus.\n\nThere are many little differences, but essentially Mormonism and other Christian faiths are the same.\n\nOne difference is that Mormons don't believe in the Trinity - they believe that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate entities instead of three aspects of one entity. And, if you do your research, you'll find that the idea of a Triune god is actually a Pagan ideal - one of many stolen by Christianity in it's earlier years.\n\nThey also have more respect for others' beliefs and their right to have them. They do evangelize during 2-year long missions (which are optional), but they do not push the issue if they are told that someone is not interested (at least, they're not supposed to).\n\nThey believe in three different "layers" of Heaven: Celestial (the best/top), Terrestrial, and Telestial (the bottom/worst). They also believe in Hell, but they believe that Hell is only reserved for those of truly unforgivable evil. Even if you are not Mormon, so long as you have lived a reasonably good life, they believe that you can still go to Heaven, however you cannot reach the Celestial level unless you follow every commandment, are married in the Temple, etc. The Celestial level is where it is believed that God and Jesus themselves reside.\n\nThey are also the only denomination that uses additional scripture in conjunction with the Bible. They do not favor it over the Bible as many believe (not all of them, anyway), but they do have three extra books that they regard as scripture: The Book of Mormon (for which they are nicknamed), Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.\n\nThey also believe in one additional prophet, which no other Christian Church acknowledges: Joseph Smith.\n\nLast, but not least, they believe that as "man was created in God's image," God was once a man Himself, under the rule of another god when He was human. I don't fully understand the conditions, but I know that it is believed that under certain circumstances, you can reach godly status after you die, and are given the power to create and control a planet as God created and controls this one.\n\nTo my understanding, these are the most prominent differences between LDS faith and other Christian faiths.
345005
How many of you have read the Book of Mormon (I know you dont think you have to to understand that is evil and forged)?\nDoes anyone have anything useful or valid to add to this question?  You know now just blatent statements without evidence?\nI know matter of factly that the LDS religion accpets the teachings of Christ, in fact their church is based on Christs original founded church, with a prophet, and 12 apostles (if you really studied it you would find that it is the closest thing to the church of Christ when he was alive - factually speaking - I am not going into revelations)  Add it up, see the similarities, but then again, how would you know if you never studied their teachings.  \n\nHAVE ANY OF YOU even sat through an LDS church session?  Do you actually know the things they teach and speak of on Sunday?  If not, than how can you say they dont belive in Christ or follow His teachings?  \n\nI hear a lot of claims from people about the LDS church, and I often wonder where you get your material from?  I sincerly doubt that it came from the actaully teachings of the church, because everyone I hear is false, and you would know that if you didnt study literature written by anti-mormons or biased imbittered apostates.  \n\nIF YOU HAVE ANYTHING VALID OR FACTUAL TO SAY, PLEASE DO, OH AND DONT FORGET TO SITE YOUR VALID REFERENCE :)\n\nI HEARD ONE TIME . . . (doesnt count)\n\nIf your going to debate or make claims against a subject, know what you are talking about, do your research, actaully study it.  I am always open to hear someone elses view on any subject, but not if you dont know what your talking about, and vice versa, if I dont know, I most likely wont be able to participate, but I would go study it to find out for myself, if I didnt I would just make myself sound inintelligent, or at the worst ignorant.
493957
I will do my best to answer your questions.  Yes, we consider ourselves Christians.  We accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and Redeemer.  No, we do not teach that only Mormons go to heaven.  We believe that people will be judged by the knowledge they have.  Thus, if someone grows up without having the word of God, they are only judged by what they were taught in life.\n\nWhen you say "to be saved" do you mean "go to heaven"?  The answer to that question is that, no, we do not think that people have to believe in the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith to go to heaven.  We are taught that good people will go to heaven.  However, in our religion we are also taught that there are different degrees of heaven.  The better you do on earth, the higher up you go.  The highest degree of heaven is what we call the "Celestial Kingdom".  To get there, we believe that we must accept the gospel of Jesus Christ (and that includes believing in the Book of Mormon and that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God).\n\nThose who are not Mormon can still go to heaven.  And we believe that after this life, people who have died without the chance to hear the gospel will get the chance to hear it in the next life.  And that in the next life, they will have the choice to accept it or reject it.
347069
I have never heard this before, and I have studied a lot on the religion.  Because they are so secrative rumors like this start.  However, there are so many wrong teachings of the mormons that there is no need to make stuff up about them!\n\nMormonism teaches:\n\nThat there is more than one God.\nThat God the Father is really just an exalted man with flesh and bones just like you and me.\nThat we also can become gods.\nThat the apostle John is still alive today, but yet believe that the church went into complete apostacy (meaning John must have left Jesus, too).\nThat Adam and Eve didn't really sin.\nThat salvation is earned and that grace is nothing more than "enabling power" that aids people as they seek perfection.\nTeaches that the Father actually had sex with Mary and that she was not a virgin.\n\nI have been told that the last one is not widely believed by the Mormon church, and is not an "official" church doctrine.  I know that Doctrines of Salvation vol. 1:18 says that Jesus was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.  I do not know if that is one of their "official" sources of doctrine.  I know this does, however, contradict both Matthew 1:18, and even the Book of Mormon (Alma 7:10).  \n\nMormonism IS a cult, IS a perversion of the gospel of Christ, and IS NOT the "true church" as they claim.
713131
They believe that God's true church has been restored to the earth through a modern-day prophet.  They believe that Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father still speak to people.  They believe that families can be forever.  The Book of Mormon is similar to the Bible in that it testifies of the divinity of Jesus Christ.  The LDS church worships Jesus Christ as the son of God.\n\nFor more about the basic beliefs of the LDS church, check out their websites:\n\nwww.lds.org\nor\nhttp://www.mormon.org/learn/0,8672,1082-1,00.html
650091
Christian; specifically...Baptist.
11890
Baptists are a branch of the Puritan movement that flourished in England during the 17th century. Most of them believed in predestination, and they believed that baptism was only for adult believers that had come to faith on their own. They also fervently advocated for the separation of church and state.\n\nMethodism, on the other hand, was the church that came out of the 18th century revivals that were led, among others, by John and Charles Wesley. They did not believe in predestination, but they continued to baptise infants. They eventually made a reluctant break from the Church of England.\n\nSo, Methodists baptise babies while Baptists don't, and while Baptists used to affirm predestination while Methodists rarely did, most Baptists don't believe in it any more, either. As far as Christian truth is concerned, there is no real difference between the two.\n\nAnd there ARE some Baptists, like this one, who affirm the ordination of women to the pastorate!
819694
The Truth About  Mormonism\n\nMost LDS (This stands for Latter Day Saint, That's what they like to call themselves) won't tell you what the Church believes because it is so bizarre. These strange beliefs are the reason mainline Christians Churches say that Mormonism is a non-christian cult. In the next paragraph I will tell you what they believe and add what the Bible teaches on the subject where appropriate.\nMormons teach that our god is a glorified man. A being of flesh and bone. The Bible makes it very clear that God is spirit. The Mormon god  stated out in the great expanse of uncreated space. There in the darkness of a pre-spiritual existence, god the father, Jesus, you, and I will there all equal and co-eternal. Then a god had sexual intercourse with one of his wives and our god was given a spiritual body. He happened to be the first born of this god so he became the savior of this god's world just like Jesus is for our world. He lived, and taught Mormonism to those who would listen to mine. He died just like Jesus did here and if others on that world would repent and be baptized by the Mormon priest there and live to the end of their lives in righteousness they were allow to return to their god. If they didn't measure up they were assigned to other kingdoms that that god has created for them. Kingdoms overseen by their savior  (who became our god) and another valiant spirit that was given the office of holy ghost. (What do you think, is this getting complex?) After the end of the world that our god did his mortal ministry on, he was given many worthy females at he could have sex with and thereby create spirit children (us) to send to a world that he created. Oh, by the way these worlds weren't really created they were organized out of the matter available in space (matter is co-eternal with god and can't be created or destroyed). Jesus was the first born of our god and Lucifer the second born (who became the devil). Can you believe this Mormons don't just say that Jesus is our spiritual brother but also he and we are brothers of Satan. Lucifer wanted to force us all to be good and bring us all back to god Jesus wanted to give us freedom to make our own decision. Jesus won this battle and became god the son. Well Mormons believe this process is repeated again and again. It is their goal to live a perfect life through their first principles of their gospel they are:\n          1. Faith in the Mormon Jesus\n          2. Baptism by immersion (Done only by their priests)\n          3. Laying on of hands for the gift of the Mormon Holy Ghost  ( Done only by their elders)\n          4. Repentance ( You have to repent of every sin you commit, You better have a good memory)\n          5. Enduring to the end of your life in righteousness. Go to step 4 each time to you sin.\nAlong with this there is marriage in the  Mormon temple (You can't become a god without being married). Everyone is also asked to pay a full tithe (Ok they got one thing right) and do volunteer service for the church (They have no paid ministry. That isn't bad either but someone should tell them that pastoring a local christian church is a full time and a half job and it doesn't pay well at all. Men and women that do it are called of God No one would go into that kind of work on their own..\n\n\nJim
406000
I'm LDS.  \n\nIt is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
600492
OK, I'm a Mormon (convert of ten years) and am amazed at the level of ignorance shown here. Here's how it really is:\n\nWe DO NOT believe that God had sex with Mary. (Pernicious falsehood started by anti-Mormons)\n\nWe DO believe "that Jesus is Lord and that He died on the cross and he rose from the dead on the third day". [c.f. "Jesus_is_awesome"]\n\nWe believe that Jesus and satan are spirit brothers ONLY IN THE SENSE that everyone and everything, even satan, are created by God. People created by the same father are brothers.\n\nWe DO believe in salvation by grace, and we DO NOT believe that our good works save us. However, when we confess faith in Jesus Christ we promise to follow him. "If ye love me, keep my commandments". Our works are what show that He is Lord of our lives. If we deliberately fail to live according to his will we cannot really have meant that prayer. (But we know we can repent when we make a mistake.)\n\nI recently asked "What must I do to be saved?" I had 33 answrs, all of which said something along the lines of "Accept Jesus Christ and repent of your sins." I have done that, therefore I am saved and going to heaven. I also happen to be a Mormon.
44782
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.
323558
I believe you to be true in what your saying.\nYou seem to me like a christian. I find demons to be in mormons. I find them to stick together like a cult group as well. They have hard time figuring out what is real and what is correct. Have you noticed that non member is always corrected even when you join "you get corrected".\nLike that other girl said For some reason like other post of yours you seem to know alot about mormons. \nTalking to the mormon lady who spoke up  well so what if he does! Do you want convert him cause you lose people more and more everyday! Wake up silly mormon tricks are from  the \ndevil not from God. Real christians know that mormons dont live the way God says in the bible. Real christians know that mormons have to have there way. Real christians also know you dont go by a cross you go by a spare that sticks straight up. Nothing you can say can change a christ follower thats "christ", no one else shall i follow, but christ. As a christian follows a true christian knows they can not do works to get there self in to heaven. By the way there is only one heaven and one hell. Sorry that i had to be the one to tell you the true truth.
824708
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 !!!!