i have a question about the second coming of christ (mormons please help)?
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I sincerely hope that your family is able to heal and recover from it's terrible loss.\n\nAll the best.
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I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, better known be nonmembers a Mormons\n\nIntroduction to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints \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). \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\nBasic beliefs \n\nYou may have questions about what members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe. Some of the basic beliefs of the Church are: \nGod is our Heavenly Father. He loves us and wants us to return to Him. \nJesus Christ is the Son of God. He is our Savior. He redeems us from death by providing the Resurrection. He saves us from sin as we repent. \nThrough the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can return to live with God if we keep His commandments. \nThe Holy Ghost helps us to recognize truth. \nThe first principles and ordinances of the gospel are faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism, and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. \nThe Church of Jesus Christ has been restored to the earth. \nThe priesthood authority of God exists in His Church today, just as it did in the original Church. \nThe Bible and the Book of Mormon are the word of God. \nGod reveals His will to prophets today, just as He did anciently. \nOur life has a sacred purpose. \nFamilies can be together forever. \nThrough serving others, we can experience joy and draw closer to God. \n\nhttp://www.mormon.org/
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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.
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First, in order to understand this issue, you have to consider it context.  This can be a very long explanation, but I'll try to keep it short and sweet.  Basically, this is referring to the second coming of Christ.  This concerns His judgment at that second coming.
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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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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.
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A very good question; and very sincere. Shows that you want to learn more about how a real Christian beleives. Read the above Bible verses, and check out 1 Cor. 15, and come to your own conclusions, based on the Bible. You can also look up the words "2nd coming" and will be lead to Biblical verses concerning Christ's coming ( no "rapture", as you know) \nEnjoy the Bible study, and God Bless you.
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The book for explaining God's salvation plan is in the Bible. The Book of Mormon will not have this because Mormons are not a\nchristian religion. Although they acknowledge Jesus, they consider Him either a prophet or just one of many different gods, which they believe they themselves will become some day.\nPeople confuse Mormons' good works and family values with being a christian religion. Christians base their salvation on Christ's life sacrificed as the atonement for sins. Because He is God's son and therefore holy, Christ was the perfect sacrifice and part of God's plan from the start to redeem mankind from sin. There is only one God, not many, Within that Godhead are    three persons - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, which is a mystery to many.  Belief or trust in Christ's sacrifice as the atonement to cover our repented sins is the basis for our salvation and eternal life. These are the main tenets of \nthe Christian faith which Mormons do not embrace. Several places in scripture have words from Jesus, Paul and John warning against adding or changing the inspired words of God.The subtitle on a "Book of Mormon" that I received on a tour of the Mormon premises in Salt Lake City reads "Another Testament of Jesus Christ". The one and only reliable source of truth is the Bible.
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Mormons are Christian.  The difference is doctrine like the many different facets of Christianity.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - called "Mormons" because we believe in The Book of Mormon. We believe in God the Eternal Father, His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. We believe that God loves us as much today as he did during biblical times, so he gives us continuous revelation through a living prophet today - just as in ancient times. We believe that through Christ's Atonement we can be saved & live with Him in the kingdom of God. The Book of Mormon is a book of scripture similar to the Bible. It does not replace the Bible but is an additional witness that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. It was written by the inhabitants of ancient America about the same time as the Bible was written in Jerusalem. It contains God's teachings to them including Jesus Christ's personal visit to them after his death & resurection. The church's headquarters is in Salt Lake City, Utah. It actually started in New York.  In 1820 Joseph Smith,  founder &  prophet had a vision & saw God the Father & His Son Jesus Christ. Eventually, he recieved the Priesthood Authority of God from Peter, James & John - 3 of Christ's origional Apostles, & restored the Church of Jesus Christ to the earth. (The Authority had been lost from the earth after the death of Christ's Apostles.) He also had visitations from an angel who told him about an ancient record on gold plates. He was able to translate this record by the power of God. It is called The Book of Mormon.  Because of severe persecution, the church moved to Ohio, then Misouri, & finally Illinois. There, Joseph Smith, was killed, along with his brother Hyram. Many other Mormons were killed or driven out. In 1847 they fled to Utah for religious freedom. From there, through missionary work, the church has grown world wide. There are currently over 12,500,000 members throughout the world.\n For more information go to www.lds.org. Hope this helps you understand a bit more about "Mormons".
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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.
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Mormons were started by a man named Joe Smith in the 1800s. When Joe was a teenager he used to try to con people with "peep" stones that he claimed gave him psychic sight. His dad was a treasure hunter and the community they lived in petitioned to drive them out. The petition particularly cited Joe as a person of low moral character.\n\nJoe tried to convince his family that he saw two angels in the woods. His family dismissed it as another one of his cons. He read books and novels about Jews escaping the grip of the Egypitians and Romans by moving to other lands. This gave him the idea of Jews coming to North America later. Later he began to tell people he saw the two angels in the woods story again. He later changed it and said they were in fact Jehovah and Jesus. Then later changed it angels again. He actually started to gather a small following of people. He paid a Professor to "validate" golden tablets he claimed God showed him hidden in the woods that gave another book to the bible. The book Doctrine and Covenants describes the professor and the translating. In reality the professor later confessed to his colleague in a letter that his statements were false and there was not tablets or translating.\n\nAnyhow as the story was told Joe hid in a room away from the professor and used his peep stones to translate Greek and Hebrew gold tablets into English. Now these tablets were supposidly stories wrote by Jews in America ranging in 2000bc to 400ad. Strangely enough the book of Mormon translated straight from Greek and Hebrew alledgely ended up in 1600s Queen's English just like the King James Version of the bible. Not only that but even quotes the KJV exactly in many passages and even shares the same chapter number and verse. The question is why would they translate into Queen's English when 1800s had modern English and use the exact KJV passages, even ones that were mis-translated by the King James translators. Also why would the chapter and verses match up in numbers when chapter/verse numbers were not added till the English versions of the bible.\n\nSo Joe wrote his book of Mormon but made some serious mistakes in it. First of all he addresses the issue of having another book of the bible. According to the book of Mormon the Jews of 33ad when they met Jesus asked why they needed more bibles. The term bible is Latin for "small books" and did not exist at that time. So why is a word used in the book of Mormon in 33ad that did not exist and further the book of Mormon was supposed to be in Greek and Hebrew not Latin? Another mistake was Jesus showed the American Jews he visited shortly after his crucifixion, the nail prints in his hands to prove he was the messiah. The problem here is these people did not see the crucifixion so how would nail prints prove anything to them?\n\nAnother good one is the book of Mormon claims that when Jesus was crucified he went to North America and for three days he caused darkness to where not even torches could be lit. He flew around screaming and destroying countless cities of the American Jews. After three days of mayhem he finally calmed down and decided to talk to the people. According to the bible Jesus went to the belly of the earth for 3 days before resurrecting. The darkness at the crucifixion lasted for 10 hours and was a fairly local event. Other cultures do not report darkness as Israel did at that time.\n\nThe book of Mormon says Jesus was born in Jerusalem. The bible says Bethlehem. A Mormon bishop told me one time that prophets make mistakes and Joe simply made a mistake. I told him how could it be a mistake when it is translated from golden tablets distributed by God? Prophets that make mistakes are called false prophets.\n\nBut the most damaging evidence of its falesness is the fact that no North/South Native American Indian has any history even remotely validating any claim by the book of Mormon. There is no archaeological evidence of the c
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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
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Wow! Some of the people that gave you answers should learn to be a little more excepting of other religions! Mormons probably think that their veiws are a load of crap too! Anyway, I think that you are over looking the fact that changes in the bible did cause a bit of controversy. And I think that maybe since The Book of Mormon hasn't been changed alot in the past (if at all), then they don't want to ruin such a holy and unchanged thing.
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I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I can tell you. Members of the LDS Church (that's the prefered term, though most know us as "Mormons") believe that Joseph Smith, at the age of fourteen, was searching for God's church on the Earth. After looking into so many, he was a bit confused and asked the Bible. He read in the book of James, Chapter 1, verse 5, that: "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him." Continuing on in verse 6, it says: "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering•. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed." Reading this, Joseph wanted a quiet place to pray, so he went into  a grove of trees, where he knelt to pray. He asked God to tell him which church was His, which church to join.In the Joseph Smith History, it speaks of this account: "After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.\n\nBut, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction—not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being—just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.\n\nIt no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!\n \nMy object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.\n\nI was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all awrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”\n\nHe again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, mother inquired what the matter was. I replied, “Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.” I then said to my mother, “I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.” It seems as though the adversary was aware, at a very early period of my life, that I was destined to prove a disturber and an annoyer of his kingdom; else why should the powers of darkness combine against me? Why the opposition and persecution that arose against me, almost in my infancy?"\n\n\nI hope that ans
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As you mentioned, since both Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians, we have a lot in common, such as a belief in Jesus Christ and a belief in the Bible.  For that reason we probably have much more in common than what we disagree on.\n\nIn addition, my understanding of another thing we have in common is that we believe that God the Father and Jesus Christ are separate beings.  In other words, neither religion is Trinitarian.  (I think this is why many other Christians say we are not Christian, because they think that you have to be Trinitarian to be Christian.)\n\nOne belief I'm aware of that we disagree on is resurrection.  The Church of Jesus Christ teaches that Jesus Christ was the first person to be resurrected.  However, I believe that Jehovah's Witnesses teach that many people were resurrected before Jesus Christ.  I think that this stems from a different understanding about what resurrection is.  I believe Jehovah's Witnesses believe that resurrection means simply coming back to life after death, such as when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead.  However, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, resurrection is used to refer to the immortal state that we will receive after death.  So although people were brought back to life from the dead before the resurrection of Jesus Christ, they were brought back to a mortal state, not an immortal one, so they weren't resurrected.\n\nAnother doctrine that I believe we disagree on is the identity of Jehovah.  I think that Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jehovah (the God of the Old Testament) was God the Father, but the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that He was Jesus Christ, operating under the authority of the Father.\n\nI have not studied enough about the beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses to be able to identify more about what we do or don't have in common, but I hope this answer has been helpful.
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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!