Mormon Church?

Question

What are your honest thoughts about the LDS Religion?

Answer 1

I'd like 'em better if they didn't send people door-too-door (the JWs are bad enough!) and if they didn't have some pseudo-Calvinistic aversion when it comes to caffine and a few other things... or if some of the followers weren't such jerks (broken down in the snow, a guy comes up with a tool kit to help and asks if LDS, say "no, Catholic" and he packs up the tools and walks back to his car and drives off... a Baptist would at least try to get you saved! *LOL*)

Answer 2

Is a little weird and have some odd rituals. There are things I don't agree with it like the secrecy of temple rituals and wedding ceremonies exluclude non-LDS members. Also, Joseph Smith was a polygamist and the church practiced it until 1890 which I think is a mistake and puts into question Smith's credibility. I find it peculiar that the LDS church doesn't have a cross despite that is a Christian religion. I've never met a Mormom so I haven't had the chance to speak to a member about this but I've done a lot of research.

Answer 3

As a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I absolutely love it. Our church places a strong emphasis on the importance of family, a strong work ethic, and good morals. These values helped shape the person that I am today, and I am so thankful for it.

Our beliefs may look somewhat different to an outsider, but I think that is pretty much the case with all religions. Being a member of this Church has done so much good for me and my family. I feel very blessed.

Answer 4

I love it! I converted when I was 19 and life has been SO much better since.

Sarah, I'm sorry you had a bad experience. We are not taught to be that way. We are encouraged to help others no matter what their religion. Please know that does not represent the majority of us.

cynical, we don't have a cross because while we are extremely grateful for what Christ did for us, which culminated with His dieing on the cross for us, we prefer to remember the Resurrected Christ, that He lives. Yes, He was dead, and He did many great and important things during that time, but He lives. He who once was dead, now lives.

You can always ask questions here about us, and a lot of us would be happy to answer you.

Answer 5

I love being LDS and I am so proud to tell others, especially people who think it's a cult, I'm happy and that's that. being LDS is not easy....every time I go past Starbucks I think Latte latte latte...Even if you think LDS is crap or a cult, at least they believe in family values :D Family is the most important thing to us, I don't quite see how putting family 1st and not indulging in addictions makes us a cult.....Oh well :D

Answer 6

I am so glad that I left it. I feel like the blinders have been lifted from my eyes. I'm free, free to worship at in a real Christian church. I can go to Church and hear about Jesus, not about some false prophet. I can sing songs about Jesus, the Pastor actually reads from the Bible. It's amazing, I've been born-again. I didn't know what I was missing. I am so grateful to my Father in Heaven for leading my family out to of that darkness.

Answer 7

They go way outside the Bible. Their entire faith is based on the teaching that Christ came to North America and preached to the Natives.

Could have happened, but there is no evidence of that ever happening. Christ arrived in Israel, taught 12 people for 3 years. So powerful was his influence and his story that Christianity spread like wildfire not only across Israel, but all across the Mediterranean into Gaul and Spain, and Germany and to the coasts of the Pacific Ocean by the time those 12 men died. Christianity was in every known corner of the world by the 15th century, including China and Japan.

But according to the Mormons, Christ came to North America and preached to people there. So powerful and awesome was this, a God visiting the shores of the Americas that nothing happened. 1500 years later, the Natives were worshipping the Bear and the Snake. And the only "record" is this thing that Joe Smith claims to have dug up.

Christ came to Asia and changed even the way we tell time! Had Christ not come, we would not know this year as 2007. This would be "The seventh year of the Reign of President Bush." That was how the years and time was identified before Christ came and the Christian emperors changed the Roman calendar.

Christ comes to America, and nothing happens! One man wrote an account and then buried it. So inspired was that man he did not bother to preach the Gospel. He buried it for 1800 years for someone named Joe Smith to find. That is the beginning of the fallacy of the LDS Church.

Answer 8

QUOTED "They go way outside the Bible. Their entire faith is based on the teaching that Christ came to North America and preached to the Natives."

Not true...
Yes we believed that happen but our entire faith isnt based on the whole north american thing...

We do also believe in The Bible (King James version)

Answer 9

It is the church of God and a man (or woman) will get closer to God by living its precepts than by any other way.

Answer 10

Its a cult. The doctrines are dangerous and false. How can they call themselves Christians when they don't believe Jesus died on the cross for their sins? Any "church" that has a book to go w/the Bible is false and not right with God. Its funny, they try soo hard to get you to read their book, but won't take a tract from another church. Hmm, maybe they're afraid of the truth?