For those who are LDS?
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Being on a Mission is a hard thing. You are usually at the height of your sexuality, you're made to room with another guy, or if you're a female, another woman.. your loved ones are alone.. back home and you want to feel they are waiting for you, but you are always worried. \n\nIf you truly love this person, your degree of committment will be tested by this.. If you aren't sure, you will mess around. But no matter  what , you'll have to live with yourself after.. So pray about this, and if you decide to date, tell your boyfriend. If you do date without telling him, you''ll feed bad, way down deep and you will regret it.\n\nI think, your asking the question, really answers it.. You don't want to be alone for two years, you want companionship and love, and you aren't ready for a serious adult relationship. This doesn't make you a bad person, it simply indicates that you're still young, and that is not a bad thing. Perhaps you need to date and when he gets home , you can start up with him again? \n\nI personally think you should date, because you don't seem ready to settle down just yet. \n\nI think I'm right. So now it's up to you to decide if I'm right or not?
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I'm kind of flaky with my actual faith, but I've been an active Mormon for a while now.\n\nI have to say that we believe in a pre-mortal existence. That we were all present at the Council of Heaevn when God was establishing his plan of salvation. Satan and Jesus both had ideas about how to do it. Essentially, Satan wanted glory for himself and Jesus wanted to give Glory to God. In order to actually believe this though you have to have a better understanding of the basic principles that under lie the LDS Church.\n\nAnd to say, out right, that the Church is wrong or that the book of mormon is bogus is really childish. There are millions of LDS people in the world today, I find it hard to believe that all of them are wrong.\n\nAnd the Bible says that the Father and the Son are One. This doesn't mean LITERALLY, look at the gospels, Jesus approaches the Father as his Father. They are One in purpose - To bring to pass the immortal life of man, but they are two seperate beings. Even if you look at Hebrew texts they use to words for God - elohim and yahweh. The reason for this is because God is no one being. But like I said, you have to have at least an undersatnding of where the book of mormon came from.\n\nI don't bash other religions. There are so many times I want to say, "No, you've got it all wrong" but I don't because I understand that every person has every right to be what they are.\n\n-------------\nTo Asker:\nI don't believe in one religion. When I say "we believe" in the Mormon church I should have been saying "they believe" My whole philosophy on life is that every religion is right... for someone. That doesn't mean is right or wrong. My friend and I have discussed religion at length and I've come to my own conclusions regarding it. She's Muslim and I am whatever I am. I used to say this to my brother, "Belief in something is better then belief in nothing." That something specific of course referred to God. But anywho, not sure if that answered your question. I'm not totally with it. Perpetually tired.\n\n-------------\nTo Asker:\nMy brother is an atheist and I find it hard to believe in nothing. I think to know that this is all we have and after this is only death is a really hard thing to cope with. Maybe it's what really is, but I think it's better to believe that there is some greater purpose for this life. The Book of Mormon has it's own set of doctrine and beliefs set out. The purpose of it is to testify that Christ is the Savior and help us understand how to live righteously. I'd strongly encourage everyone to read it. My faith is unique. I believe the teachings of the LDS church are correct in some sense. I just have too many things I'm questioning in my life. I'm working on resolving them and I don't know where it is going. Sorry for the confusion. don't base your views on the LDS Church on me because I'm far from the best person. If a person wants to know more I'd suggest lds.org and you can actually read the conference talks etc. Or even talking to missionaries. Anywho, sorry.
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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.
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I hope you will be fair and clear on your research, and make the distintion between fundamental Mormons and\nThe church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.\n\nAs a LDS for 30yrs, I love the LDS doctrines.\nIt is the best path I choose.\nI always disappointed in most people who missundertood or got the wrong idea about LDS, because so many wrong info out there. \nI could say, LDS can respect other religions, but unfortunately, not all religion can tolerate LDS.
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As usual, the so eloquently named EATGIZZ and I differ.  I AM A MORMON.  Are Mormons Christian? YES!! Latter-day Saints believe in Christ as the Savior, the Redeemer, the Son of God, the Creator of the earth, and the only source of salvation. It is His love and grace that give meaning to life and hope to humanity. We believe in the Bible, which plainly teaches that Christ is our Savior and that all men must repent and come unto Christ to be saved. Some critics proclaim that Mormons are not Christians and don't believe in Christ. I really don't like other people telling me what I believe! As a Latter-day Saint, I have been taught, and have personally chosen, to accept Christ as my Savior. I am taught to follow Him, to rely on His love, and to feast on His word. I know that real Mormons are Christians. We worship Christ and covenant to follow Him. We are baptized in His name to follow Him, we partake of the sacrament (the holy communion) weekly to remember the sacrifice of His blood and to remember His victory over death, we pray to the Father in His name, and we strive to obey Him, knowing that it is only through His merits and grace that we are saved. He is constantly held up in our meetings as our Savior, our Redeemer, our Lord, and the author of our faith and our salvation. We believe that He stands at the head of His living Church, leading it as in days of old through revelation to His prophets and apostles. The Christ we worship is the living Christ, the Son of God, foretold in the Old Testament, revealed in the New Testament, and affirmed in The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ.
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Mormons are Christians. I cannot see a problem, but then again, I am a Pagan.
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Well it is interesting that you ask that. My brother who is not mormon recently married a mormon. They were married in the temple and we were not alowed to attend because we are not mormon. We asked what the big deal was and we were told that the temple is considered a sacred ground for the worship of mormons to their god and that non mormons entering this temple curses the belief of the church. I know it sounds ridiculous but that is part of there religion and so be it I guess. I sure am glad I am not mormon.
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I'm LDS, and I'm proud!  \nI have been looking around a bit, and I think that the lies that are posted are outragous!  I mean, if someone asks a question about us LDS people, how about you let US LDS people answer them?  We are the ones who live the religion (it's not a cult, and we don't have communes, etc.), and we are the ones who go to church each week.  Most of the sites that people are reffering to are full of lies!  It's sickening.  If anybody wants to know what we REALLY believe, you can go to www.mormon.ORG, or www.lds.ORG.  Check your facts with LDS people folks, not quasi-religious polygamist cults using the name of our church.
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I am LDS as well. First, soul, for us, usually refers to the united entity of both body and spirit. Since we believe that all living things were created spiritually before they were created physically, we therefore believe that all living things  have "souls. " (Doctrine and Covenants 72:2)\nWe also believe that, during Christ's millenial reign, we will live in peace with the animals (Isa. 11:6-9). Since animals are subject to mortal death and fulfil the measure of their creation, we also believe that they will be in heaven by the grace of Christ's atonement for all living beings. Hence, many prophets have spoken out against killing for sport or abusing animals in any manner.  Despite this, we also believe that meat was given to us for our sustinance (Gen 9:3) but that it should be used sparingly (D & C 89:12). President Joseph F. Smith said, "I do not believe any man should kill animals or birds unless he needs them for food, and then he should not kill innocent little birds that are not intended for food for man. I think it is wicked for men to thirst in their souls to kill almost everything which possesses animal life. It is wrong."\nThat said, we are not anti-hunting. I fish, spearfish, and hunt lobster regularly. I do not waste anything that I legally catch. While I could go to the store, my family and I prefer fresh sea food with all those rich omega three fatty acids!
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yes. I have been a mormon for all my life.  Why you may ask?\nWell, that's simple: because I know the doctrines and principles that the church teaches are true.
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I know the LDS church openly says they have something like 12 million members.  If you're doing a paper or something (which it sounds like you are), you should search for a newspaper article that came out a while back.  It said that there are offically 12 million members, but most of them are inactive or have left the church--the article estimated that there are around 4 million members instead.
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From the perspective of an outsider, this is my brief experience with coming across Mormon faith: They are good people; a lot of them give their lives for their faith. I respect this very much. But...I used to live in Taipei for a long period of time, during this time, I came across many Mormon youth who had come to Asia to preach their faith.\nOne incident that struck me negatively was a certain day when I witnessed a group of 2 Mormon youths (early 20's) approaching a Taiwanese man on the subway (also known as the MRT). This man was quietly reading his newspaper when they interrupted him (this is not acceptable etiquette-wise in Taiwan and was obviously embarrassing to this middle-aged man in the crowded compartment) to speak about their faith. I looked on, in awe at the profoundness of their go-get-it approach. A few minutes later, they noticed me (a white female foreigner) and obviously wanted to talk to me too. When Sister Something and the other Sister something approached I felt quite uncomfortable and felt like a was being interrogated. I then asked them how their evangelization was going. They then explained how each team was assigned a certain line of the subway system to meet potential followers. I was surprised at this, because according to the local laws, no political party or any other organization has the power to use the subway system for purposes other than traveling. What they were pursuing was clearing outside regulations. Not only this, but the method they used to interact with locals was not exactly what I call "localzied". Anway, I still believe that Mormons are good-hearted people. The only thing I would encourage them to do is "strive for communion with other Christians".
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check out a few of these"PRO" pages\n\nhttp://www.lightplanet.com/response/answers/contents.htm\nhttp://www.fairlds.org/apol/morm201/m20100a.html\nhttp://www.geocities.com/promormon/index.html\nhttp://www2.ida.net/graphics/shirtail/linksto.htm\nhttp://www.aros.net/~wenglund/Point.htm\nhttp://www.adherents.com/people/pt/Jerald_Sandra_Tanner.html\nhttp://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/FQ_BMProb2.shtml\nhttp://www.jefflindsay.com/myturn.shtml
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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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dont you mean "When are people finally going to accept the fact that the LDS chruch DOES NOT practice nor sanction polygamy anymore?\nLDs but not all mormons?\nwho were those members? Joseph Smith \nDoes the LDS church teach that Pologamy will be practiced in heaven?\nWhat political event led to the LDS God changing the rules?
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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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I'm a Mormon and to see my basic beliefs check out www.Mormon.org and search for "Basic Beliefs" I would type the Articles of Faith but who wants to read that much on these?