mormons what is your testimony of jesus christ as your lord and savior who died on the cross for your sins?

Question

http://www.lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb69095bd3e44916a0/?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=ff161f4b23fae010VgnVCM100000176f620a____&hideNav=1

http://www.lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.062a5ea6a5e8d8661b622015f1e543a0/?vgnextoid=84010fd41d93b010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&hideNav=1&pageNumber=1&maxResults=20&NARROW_BY=&query=converting&bucket=AllChurchContent&dateFrom=&dateTo=&AUTHOR_CATEGORY=&AUTHOR_NAME=&FORMAT=&submitSearch=Search&dateFromDisplay=&dateToDisplay=&findByAuthor=

Answer 1

I have been a mormon all my life and we believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are first faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, second repentance, third baptism by emersion for the remission of sins, and forth laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost. We believe that Christ is the savior of the world and that people will be saved through his grace after they do all that they can do to be a good honest person. Repentance is a process of being forgiven through Christ by confessing and forsaking your sins and having a change of heart to become a better person.

Answer 2

Jesus Christ is the literal son of God, he is the one who made this world and all in it. He is the one who did on the cross to save our souls. He is the only way to salvation. I could go on and on. The Church of Jesus Christ is his church on earth. The temple is his house. I am proud to be a (Mormon).

Answer 3

I know that He is the Lord and savior and that He died on the cross for ALL of our sins,if we repent and come to Him,and endure to the end.

Answer 4

Do you really want a Mormon to testify of Christ, or are you trying to bait someone into a religious debate? The request does not seem genuine.

Answer 5

Excuse me, but the clear doctrine of the LDS is that Jesus did NOT atone for the sins of the world on the Cross - but in the Garden of Gethsemane - putting Mormon faith at direct odds with Biblical Christianity - another "Jesus" and a different "Gospel"

Mormon Apostle Bruce McConkie, stated, “Where and under what circumstances was the atoning sacrifice of the Son of God made? Was it on the Cross of Calvary or in the Garden of Gethsemane? It is to the Cross of Christ that most Christians look when centering their attention upon the infinite and eternal atonement. And certainly the sacrifice of our Lord was completed when he was lifted up by men; also, that part of his life and suffering is more dramatic and, perhaps, more soul stirring. But in reality the pain and suffering, the triumph and grandeur, **of the atonement took place primarily in Gethsemane**,” (Doctrinal New Testament Commentary 1:774, emphasis mine).

While Scripture is clear on the matter, and about the CROSS:

God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." Galatians 6:14

"...the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are saved it is the power of God." 1 Corinthians 1:18

"For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ; whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame -- who set their mind on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body...." Philippians 3:18-21

"Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are saved and among those who are perishing. To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life." 2 Corinthians 2:14-16

Answer 6

go preach your dogma somewhere else and to quote patti smith: jesus died for somebody's sins, NOT mine. so buzz off

Answer 7

just 2b clear, i answer these questions before looking up the other answers...

now, on to the show...
...
okay, here is my testimony - the pg rated version...as given to a couple elder missionaries upon their request...amended to represent current miracles.. note that this was written a week b4 i was baptised (immersion = death; submersion = cleansing of sin; emersion = rebirth into glory)

I was born in the US Midwest, the youngest son of a family of four. My mother was histrionic, and my dad was an ‘unpredictable’ alcoholic. In my very young years, I was sexually abused by both parents and my older brother. In addition, I endured numerous incidents of physical abuse (being thrown thru a car windshield at age 4, for example). By this time, I was diagnosed as ‘disturbed and mentally retarded’. As a result, I was forbidden to have friends and was often tied to the crib I slept in. I created a vast imaginary life to make up for the lack of socializing with other kids. When I read an entire encyclopedia in three weeks and beat an ‘unbeatable’ computer in 3D tic-tac-toe when I was 7, I was suddenly acknowledged as gifted. All the while, I was very hyperactive, which created headaches for my family.

At 12, I decided to move out of the house, and lived off-and-on on the streets until I got clean at 20. I remember sleeping in dumpsters and abandoned garages in sub-zero weather, using a blow dryer to keep warm. Eventually the police would arrest me and reunite me with my family, where the whole abuse-runaway cycle would continue. Around the time I was 14, I started shooting heroin and cocaine; a counselor suggested a Quaker private school to straighten me out and my parents paid for it and enrolled me. Yet, I didn’t fit in, and the result was numerous suicide attempts and much loneliness. No women ever seemed to be interested in me, so I wanted to die.

Between 14-20, I used drugs heavily. I was hospitalized in psychiatric units, institutions and rehabs for excessive LSD use. Several times, I was told that I was incurably insane. I had numerous drug overdoses, and had been declared medically dead at least 7 times. At 18, I met a girl and moved in with her and her mother, and then stole several thousand dollars from her mother so we could move out and live together. We did a common-law marriage thing, but she ran out on me because she saw that I was hopeless drug abuser (ironically, she died of drinking later on). The last time I used drugs, I OD’d and wound up in a coma that I wasn’t supposed to awaken from.

When I came to, I knew that I had been touched by God, because I had the strong sense that I would never use drugs again. I started up NA in Iowa with a few other folks, and got heavily involved in service to other addicts, even unto the World Service Board of NA (think 12 Apostles). I started a suicide hotline and by the time I was 26, I was the director of an inpatient adult/youth treatment program with 60 patients recovering from drug/alcohol abuse and prison lifestyles.

During this time, I had met my second wife in NA, and we married and had a daughter. Soon after, I worked 2 jobs to pay for things…and my wife returned to drug use and committed adultery with a number of men. I was compelled to divorce her (she later became a lesbian), and I endured a half-year of emotional despair because of the suddenness, as I still loved her. Around this time, I started getting very depressed and delusional, and was told that I had schizophrenia and severe depression. I have lived with these 2 afflictions for the past 16 years, struggling to survive a mental illness that has a 50% suicide rate among men within the first 5 years of diagnosis.

I continued to stay clean in NA, and was in and out of psych units for depression. Yet, I was also advancing spiritually by leaps and bounds. My dad died in 2001, and I went to his funeral. After the funeral, I called United Airlines and was given the option to leave a day early on my return flight. So I flew back to Hawaii on Sept 10th, 2001.

God has a plan for me, which I am now engaged in as a grateful member of the JC-LDS.. I am paying off deep karma, and I have been called to be of service in many ways. The Mormon Church is giving me the opportunity to connect with the Christian aspect of spirituality in a way that is exciting and mirrors my own spiritual practice. I’m a spiritual searcher (Lutheran, Quaker, Islam, Zen, Tao, etc). I want to commit myself to lead a moral life, the lifestyle Christ exemplified on his Mission here on Earth. I consider myself a very loving, caring person…and I hope that my talent (intelligence) can be channeled to the good. It is my good fortune to find the Church at this stage of my life. Despite the hardships, I have a lot to be grateful for, because I have been permitted to survive Hell so I can reach Heaven. In the past 10 months since baptism, I have been challenged by all sorts of trials brought on by my own mistakes and the workings of the deceiver. In each sense, I have come out stronger.

Here is my testimony...in the 9 months since I was baptised, I have been healed of a disese for which there is no healing. Schizo-affective Disorder has an almost 0% remission rate; instances of someone becoming 'well' with it are much more scarce than recovery from terminal lymphomic cancer/AIDs/etc. Today, I do not have the symptoms. Today, I am considered 'totally free' of Schizo-affective Disorder. Today, I am able to work in a professional capacity with clients with the most intensive category of combined drug addiction/severe mental health issues. Today, I may have saved a client's life. Today, I have my life back.

This humble miracle wrought in my life, is surely the result of Heavenly Father's love and Christ's redemptive power. No human power or willingness on my part could have done it. All the love in the world couldn't envelope me with enough strength to release a lifelong mental illness. I was personally granted a true miracle, one that strengthens my testimony that there is a true church, a true prophet, a true redemption and a true resurrection. I hope that I can pass along this gift by blessing others, so that I can edify Jesus Christ, Heavenly Father, and all else.

No one is beyond redemption. Change we must, because God is loving us now.

Answer 8

Dont bother them they only know what they are told.