What Spiritual gifts do Mormons claim & experience in their faith?

Question

There are biblical gifts of the Holy Spirit. What are the spiritual gifts of the Mormon religion?

drumbum, You have the best answer so far.

Others say they are same as bible, but that is not true.

The bible Holy Spirit is different than the Mormon spirits. So the gifts would be of a different spirit.

Answer 1

Not kidding you on this but:
A planet that they are gods on
Former un -mormon christians as slaves
Women must wait to be called from the grave by their husbands using their secret temple name.The they get to produce spirit babies

They claim to read the bible but if they did they would know that their BOM challenges so many important aspects of the Bible.Their God and Jesus are not the Christian God or Jesus

EDIT: Thanks :). http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/basic/afterlife/degrees_glory_eom.htm
http://www.allaboutcults.org/what-do-mormons-believe.htm
this site might interest you....

EDIT: this might help too....I lost the site link sorry..but this is pretty in depth:
What Mormons will say they believe about salvation:

All are redeemed by the Savior's self-sacrifice, from the consequences of the fall.
Immortality comes as a free gift, by the grace of God alone, without works.
Jesus is our Savior.
Why Mormon salvation is not Christian salvation:
According to Mormonism, everyone and everything — all of creation — has been redeemed and therefore "saved".
His salvation gains, for all human beings, a physical resurrection only — not eternal life. Eternal life is not "salvation"; it is "exaltation".
If you ask a Mormon if he is saved (per Evangelical parlance), he will answer yes.
If you ask him if he believes you are saved, he will answer yes. This confuses Christians who do not understand that being "saved" and gaining "eternal life" are not the same thing in Mormon thinking.
It is further confused by the Mormon distinction between "immortality" (salvation to physical resurrection) and "eternal life" (exaltation to godhood).
The Mormons have a saying: "Salvation without exaltation is damnation."
Therefore, a Mormon can, with a straight face, tell you he believes you are "saved", while he also believes you are damned.
Christian answer:
We define salvation according to what we are saved from. We are saved from sin and from the wages of sin — death.
To be saved from sin is to be justified and sanctified. To be saved from death is to receive eternal life (Rom. 6. 22, 23).
Being saved, justified, sanctified and given eternal life by the grace of God are all things which are interconnected in the scriptures. There is no biblical basis for separating them (Rom. 5th).
Seeking exaltation is contrary to the spirit of Christ. We are rather to humble ourselves, recognize our sinfulness and call upon the Lord for mercy and forgiveness (James 4. 6-10).
Why the Mormon hope is not the Christian hope:
It is the hope of the male Mormon to progress to the point where he will be a god like God the Father and be ruling over his own planet. This is "exaltation", and depends upon the Mormon "Plan of Eternal Progression".
The hope of Mormon females depends upon their being married, in a temple ceremony, to a Mormon male who achieves exaltation.
Mormon women married to non-Mormons ("Gentiles") can arrange for a "temple sealing" (marriage by proxy) to a Mormon male after their death. This is to assure that in eternity they are considered to have been married to and produced their children from a Mormon husband so that they and their children can be exalted.
Mormon males expect to produce offspring in heaven with their mate(s), offspring who will subsequently be sent to populate their planet and achieve their own exaltation to godhood and so on and so on …
Christian answer:
The God of the Bible is the Creator and God of all the universe, of all worlds, not just our planet. He made man for Himself and in His image to be in communion with God and enter into the love of the Holy Trinity.
When man fell into sin and marred the image of God in his own being, the second person of the Trinity became incarnate — taking human nature to Himself.
He then did what He could not do in the form of God — He died to save us from sin and death, so that we could come back into communion with God and share the love of the Holy Trinity. Our hope is to be with God, not to be God (Gen. 1st-3rd; Phil. 2. 5-11).


EDIT:Mormen master...read your old docturne...plus most mormens admit to alot of this "outragous"stuff....Is this also why the missionaries about sprint from my door when I ask them this...Is this why your "prophet" claim "I don't know that we teach that" When it's IN your old documents...of course you wouldnt know about it though....Your church doesnt want you to read anything that might make you think about your faith Read the history of your church...If you would actually read a bible cover to cover and compare the BOM to it,then you would see hoe different they truely are..BTW I know J.Ws...you are different yet alot alike.There is no confusion...everything I got I got from YOUR Documents.Also your Jesus is different then a christian Jesus...He said He is the same yesterday,today and forever...he is unchanging...Do you think he ascended then was like"opps I need to go back...darn I knew I forgot something?" No.He is unchangeing.Your documents which are "inspired" by God have had so many changes to them it's not even funny....and no I'm not talking about minor changes...I'm talking 1440 MAJOR changes to your BOM alone,not to mention changes to the Pearl of Great Price,etc.

Note the following quote from the Mormon Journal of Discourses, vol. 1, page 123, made by the LDS Apostle Orson Hyde:

"Remember that God, our heavenly Father, was perhaps once a child, a mortal like we ourselves, and rose step by step in the scale of progress, in the school of advancement; has moved forward and overcome, until He has arrived at the point were He is."

Lorenzo Snow, late President of the Mormon church, made this statement in the second verse of his famous poem entitled, "Man's Destiny":

"As Abra'm, Isaac, Jacob, too, babes, then men--to gods they grew. As man now is, our God once was; As now God is, so man may be,-- Which doth unfold man's destiny. . ."


God has been God since forever,there were no God's before him,nor wil there be any after him...This came from your lituature...

Answer 2

Gee, there are sure some strange ideas floating around here. I've been an enthusiastic "Mormon" since I was a sophomore in college, and I really wouldn’t recognize my faith in most of the answers I’ve read so far.
What spiritual gifts do members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints experience?
Well, all of ‘em, I guess.
Mormons aren’t really part of the Catholic or Protestant branches of Christianity. We believe the original gospel of Jesus Christ was restored to the earth, beginning in 1830. As part of that restoration, the same power and authority given to Peter and the original apostles was restored, including the spiritual gifts Christ gave them.
Of course, we don’t believe in seeking for signs, and don’t put on displays of such things to satisfy the curious. However, I’m forced to admit that I’ve seen the power of God manifest many times in my lifetime, from the healing of the sick to the gift of tongues and the interpretation of tongues – which reminds me of a Mormon joke about learning Finnish, a very difficult language. It goes like this:
Who can learn Finnish? Two groups – babies and Mormon missionaries.

Answer 3

the same, we also believe in personal revelation(answers for our selves and our families). We believe in continuing revelation from God to direct us and we enjoy the complete restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. God could not be the author of so much confusion and the Bible has been translated and handled so many times that many plain and precious doctrines were lost and God called a prophet to restore His church to the earth for the last time before the second coming of Christ.

Answer 4

Try looking up these sections and chapters

D:C sec 46 http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/46/24-25#24

Moroni ch. 10 http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moro/10

1 Corinthians ch. 12 http://scriptures.lds.org/en/1_cor/12/4#4

We believe in all these gifts of the Spirit

Answer 5

The exact same ones in the bible!

Answer 6

I'm not sure all what they believe and think is promised to them...but I know it's very different from many others who believe in God. I've heard them talk about it...I just don't remember the details.

Answer 7

The ones you read in the Bible. Those are the ones we believe in.

Answer 8

Interesting question...I can't wait to read the answers....very interesting !

Answer 9

They believe in modern day prophets.

Answer 10

Okay, If you really want to know what mormons are about you should ask our missionaries. They know a lot more than "drumbum"(whose comments are outrageously false) and myself. I am a mormon, so yes I know what our religion is about to some degree. Since drumbum's comments are the most common and crazy assumptions about our faith I will answer to her comments. First I need to clarify the polygamy thing. When Our church was first organized by a guy named Joseph Smith, there wasn't any polygamy. Polygamy was instituted in our church for around 35 years. If you think about it logically it makes sense. We had a VERY small membership at the time and we kept being pushed west by mobs. From NY to Ohio to missouri and finally to Utah. A large % of the men in our church were killed by mobs. As a result there were a lot of widows with kids to take care of. That was why it was nessesary for polygamy. Sex in our church was not increased very much by the induction of polygamy either. After we were safe from the mobs in Utah polygamy was discarded and hasn't ever since then been put into practice. There was a group (Community church of Christ-- also known as RLDS) who broke off from our church early. They still practice polygamy (that is probably where the mormon polygamy rumers started). Anyway our church no longer does it.
Next thing is this idea of us inheriting planets. We believe that after Christ comes, the earth will be "renewed". We don't know the exact interperetation of this-- however some anti-mormons have probably assumed we are going to inherit planets.
I don't even have a clue about the slave thing drum bum talked about. Our church teaches nothing about that.
In the next Paragraph drum bum goes off on a tangent. I think he got us confused with Jehovah's witnesses. We believe as drumbum probably does that "faith without works is dead being alone" (James 2:17) People are saved by believing in Christ and testifying to that belief by "keeping his commandments" (John 14:15). We do not however believe in a trinity. We believe like drumbum that god made man in his own image. However, god, christ, and the holy ghost are not one being. This is proved many times throughout the bible (Christ's baptism-christ in the water, holy ghost in the form of a dove, and gods voice from heaven----Steven's martyrdom-"the son of man standing on the right hand of god" (Acts 7:56) These are just two examples I do know of more.
Next thing: Mormons are Christians!!! What is the definition of a Christian anyway? Most people define it as someone who accepts Christ as their redeemer or follows after his teachings. Mormons believe in both those things. So we are Christian.
This last issue I feel is most important. Our temples--- We believe that they are sanctified by god as holy places. I personally have been in many different temples and we don't do the practices that drumbum has said. We do however do baptisms for the dead(1 Cor. 15:29)-- this is where we are baptised in proxy for someone who has died who hasn't heard of christ. I don't know if drumbum believes you can't get to heaven without believing in christ, however this may just be me but I personally wouldn't like heaven if my great grandpa(who isn't christian) couldn't be with me. Baptisms for the dead remedy that issue. That is the only ordinance I have been able to perform thus far in the temple but there are others. They are very sacred. One of them is eternal marriage. This helps your family stay together forever-- not just "till death do you part"
Now I can answer the question presented at the top. Our spiritual gifts are included in a personal blessing given from a patriarch (or evangelist as mentioned in Eph. 4:11-14). It endows us so to speak with spiritual gifts. It gives us our lineage(direct or adopted) in the Abrahamic Covenant. It also supplys us with admonitions, warnings and instructions to recieve spiritual gifts such as prophecy, healing, the ability to be healed, revelation, visions, inturperetation and speaking in tougues, and miracles. As long as we stay worthy we can have these gifts with us.
I can testify to you that I have seen these gifts in action on a regular basis in our church. I have attended other churches, but they don't have the same spirit their as they do in the mormon church.

Anyway this is long, but a lot needed to be covered. I hope I covered everything. You can email me if you have more questions about mormonism or the BOM (book of mormon)[e-mail]. Or just ask our missionaries. You should be able to find them in a crowd. They have white shirts, ties and nametags with LDS on them. (this stands for our official name--- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. If you are still skeptacle about what his stuff all means just ask a mormon in your area. "By their friuts ye shall know them" (Matt. 7:20)

Answer 11

The ability to have so many wifes they get sex at least once a week instead of once very six months!