Is mormonism just another protestant religion?

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Answer 1

What Do Mormons Believe: The Primary Differences Between Mormonism & Christianity


What Do Mormons Believe: Divine Authority
The Mormon church uses two sources as its primary authorities: the Book of Mormon and the Bible. The Doctrine and Covenants and The Pearl of Great Price are also viewed as divinely authoritative. The Christian church uses the Holy Bible alone as its authority from God. Joseph Smith is not recognized as a prophet.

What Do Mormons Believe: The Nature of God
The Mormon church sees God as the Supreme Being of the universe. However, He gradually acquired that position over a long period of time by living a perfect and righteous life. God the Father has a body (flesh and bones). The Christian church proclaims God as eternally and infinitely supreme. He is the same today as always. He is a spirit Being.

What Do Mormons Believe: The Nature of Man
The Mormon church teaches that humans exist as spirit beings before their birth. At physical birth, bodies are given to these spirits. They are also given an opportunity for free-will choice. The physical world represents a period of probation. The status of a person in the afterlife is determined by the way that person lived their life on Earth. If the person lived by a satisfactory standard, (including the fulfillment of Mormon temple obligations) that person has the potential to become a god in the after-life. They can also produce "spirit children" to populate a world of his own (like God did with the earth). The Christian church holds that humans do not exist as spirits prior to being born into the world. Humans cannot attain godhood or populate other worlds with "spirit children."

What Do Mormons Believe: The Nature of Jesus Christ
The Mormon church views Jesus and Satan as spirit brothers and sons of God. God put forth His plan of salvation for the world, and Satan proposed his own plan. Jesus accepted the Father's plan and offered to implement it as the Savior. The Father chose Jesus, and the spirit of Jesus was given a body through the virgin Mary. He was crucified on a Roman cross, and rose from the dead three days later to establish His deity. The character and life of Jesus is attainable by anyone who performs at such a righteous level. The Christian church teaches that Jesus Christ has existed eternally as the Son of God, the second "person" of the Trinity. Jesus took on human flesh about 2000 years ago and was born into the world through the virgin Mary. He was crucified on a Roman cross for our sins, and rose from the dead three days later to establish His deity.

What Do Mormons Believe: How do we Achieve Salvation
The Mormon church holds that Jesus Christ overcame physical death and guaranteed physical resurrection to all mankind. However, spiritual death can only be avoided through personal obedience of God's commandments. Forgiveness of sins requires faith, repentance and baptism by an approved Mormon priest. The practice of baptism for the dead is an extension of this belief, in which Mormons are baptized in proxy for those who have died without proper baptism. The Christian church teaches that we are unable to live a life righteous enough to meet God's perfectly holy standard. Therefore, we establish a relationship with God by faith in the work of Christ on the cross, not by our own works. Baptism and good deeds are acts of obedience to God, but not the means for gaining eternal salvation.

What Do Mormons Believe: Life After Death
The Mormon church maintains that although there is temporary punishment for those that are most wicked, Jesus Christ will establish a new kingdom that will consist of three levels: the celestial kingdom, the terrestrial kingdom, and the telestial kingdom. The Christian church holds that there are only two possible fates after death, heaven or hell. These locations are final, both physically and spiritually.

Answer 2

Protestant is not a "religion". The religion is Christianity and no, Mormonism is not at all a form of Christianity, although they might use that terminology.

Mormonism believes:
1. God (Elohim) is only one of many gods and he came from a planet near the star Kolob.
2. Elohim has many wives and spirit children.
3. Two of Elohim's spirit children are Jesus and Lucifer.
4. As God once was, we are now. As God is now, we can become.
5. A woman's salvation is based only on making sure her husband gets to become a god.

Biblical Christianity believes:
1. There is only one God who is eternally existent in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, all equal in purpose and one in being.
2. Jesus is God and He NEVER married nor did He ever have a wife.
3. Jesus is God and Lucifer (aka Satan) is merely a created being.
4. We are not and will never be gods. There is only ONE God, and we are not Him.
5. ALL people are saved through faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross. Nothing we can ever DO will save us.

I could go on, and on, but I think that's enough to give you an idea of difference.

Answer 3

None of the previous answers have offered one shred of objective truth or explanation at all. They should be ignored by any educated person.

Now for the protestant question. No, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is not a protestant faith. Protestant faiths were formed when they protested against the Catholic Church and broke away. The LDS church did not do this--it is a restoration of the original church organization and priesthood enjoyed by members of the Lord's church when He was living on the earth. The LDS church does not claim to receive its priesthood authority through the Catholic Church, they state that this priesthood was restored to the earth in 1829 by John the Baptist and later the higher priesthood by Peter, James, and John. So there is no connection with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and protestant roots at all.

Answer 4

Depends who you ask. A Mormon (or "Latter Day Saint," as they are often called), will tell you that he is a "Christian." Most mainline Christians would disagree. Including me.
Mormons do believe in God and His son, Jesus, but from there our beliefs diverge significantly.
Christians believe Jesus Christ is equal to God, in other words, Christ IS diety. Mormons place Jesus' status a bit lower, and don't accept the idea of the Trinity (God being one, and yet also three: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).
Mormons believe Jesus and Lucifer (the Devil) are equal, a notion completely out of line with Christian beliefs.
For a more detailed (if lengthy) explanation of Mormonism, try checking out the following link:
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Cults/mormon.htm
Hope that helps.

Answer 5

Mormonism is a cult. It is not a protestant religion. The Mormons have taken liberties with the Bible and have actual taken things out of the Bible and claim other things in the Bible to be false.

Answer 6

No... mormonism is a man invented cult that has absolutly nothing to back up the claims of it's founder.

They are NOT of the Christian Faith... In fact they taught for generations that "christians" were the enemy and that The Bible of the "christians" was not God's Word... J Smith, their founder, claimed to have been given the "true" bible dirctly from god. And all of his highest followers touted it as being absolutly the final and true "bible" directly from god....BUT, to this day they do not even teach their own masses from that work... why? because it is so full of errors that it is kept from the majority of mormons...

Now the Lost and Deceived of Satan(LDS) claime to be "christian" and actulay claim to follow the "christian" "bible"...King James version no less...

But there is no way in hell they are of The Christian Faith.

But they for sure are a man made"religion/cult"

Answer 7

Nope! Very Unique.... Every man will be a god with his own planet - populated with his eternally pregnant WIVES which he may decide to call by their secret name at the last moment. Originator Joseph Smith was kicked out of Masons for divulging secrets so started his own group that are now known as Mormons or Church of Latter day Saints.

Much more aout them known.

Answer 8

Mormonism diverges from Protestant Christianity in a number of ways, but most notably in their acceptance of the Book of Mormon.

Answer 9

No its a cult with the leader of Joseph Smith. They add another book called Book of Mormon that the other Christian denominations do not accept as Holy Scripture.

Answer 10

It's got to be because it is based on the Bible and on Jesus.

The Bible admits to being a hoax, which makes Mormonism another product of the hoax that is Christianity.

All of Christianity depends on a mystery, which is the easiest way to deceive. You can neither understand nor explain a mystery, and what better way is there to reject reason and call for strict blindness?

Everybody's got a book and theirs came mysteriously, like the baby in the basket that is left on a doorstep, all because Uncle Sam permitted freedom of worship, so what difference does another angle make?

I once worked at a Mormon's Head Office and I observed a Clint-Eastwood version of Jesus wearing what can only be described as a factory-made pair of sandals, and I wondered if this did not justify the Rastafarians taking Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia for their Son of God, him being a descendent of Jesus and dubbed the Lion of Judah, in their desire to turn away from the white man's version of Jesus and take a black man as their Living God.

A young Mormon "Elder" once came to my door and when I told him that Jesus was a combination of Jah and Zeus he told me that I must be crazy to pull Zeus out of a hat, and he asked me where i got this Zeus from.

I asked him to go to Acts of the Apostles 14:12-13 and see what it says.

He opened his Bible and would not raise his head for what seemed to be ages. I thought his Bible may have used Jupiter in place of Zeus, Jupiter being the Latin for Zeus, and I did not want to have to explain this to him since I thought it would have given him reason to think I was even more crazy than he said.

I reached out to him and took his Bible away from him, and there it was, "And they called Barnabas Zeus..... Then the priest of Zeus....."

I put the Bible back into his hands and he never raised his head to make further eye contact with me, but left with his head down.

Mormonism is not just another Protestant religion, but another religion of the Hoax of the Crucifixion of Christ that the Bible documents as the Crucifixion of Two Thieves named Jesus in the hunt to draw the Islam of the Children of Israel into Greek Pagan worship of Zeus the Sun God.

Pity the blind leading/following the blind.

Amen