What does the Reorganized LDS church believe in???

Question

Is it just like the LDS church/Mormon/Chruch of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints or are their differances, besides the fact that Smith's sion took over instead of Brigham Young???

Is there a website???

Answer 1

Yes, there are a lot of differences!
rlds:
God
The one eternal, living God is triune: one God in three persons. The God who meets us in the testimony of Israel is the same God who meets us in Jesus Christ, and who indwells creation as the Holy Spirit. God is the Eternal Creator, the source of love, life, and truth. God actively loves and cares for each person. All things that exist owe their being to God who alone is worthy of our worship.

Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ is "God with us," the Son of God, and the living expression of God in the flesh. Jesus Christ lived, was crucified, died, and rose again. The nature, love, and purpose of God are most clearly seen in Jesus Christ, our Savior.

Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the continuing presence of God in the world. The Spirit works in our minds and hearts through intelligence, comfort, guidance, love, and power to sustain, inspire, and remake us.

Salvation
God loves us even though we are sinful. Through the ministry of Christ and the presence of the Holy Spirit, we are able to turn to God and receive the gifts of salvation and eternal life. Those who accept the gospel are called to respond to Christ through baptism and committed discipleship. As individuals exercise faith in Christ and follow his example and teachings, they become new people.

The Church
Christian discipleship is most fully possible when it is pursued in a community of committed believers. The church, as part of the body of Christ, is the means through which the ministry of Christ continues in the world today. It is a community of people seeking to bring God's love to all through compassionate ministry, worship, the sacraments, and witness.

Revelation
The process through which God reveals divine will and love is called revelation. God continues to reveal today as in the past. God is revealed to us through scripture, the faith community, prayer, nature, and in human history.

Scripture
The scriptures provide divine guidance and inspired insight for life when responsibly interpreted and faithfully applied. With other Christians, we affirm the Bible as scripture for the church. In our tradition, the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants are additional scriptural witnesses of God’s love and Christ’s ministry.

Sacraments
The sacraments express the continuing presence of Christ through the church. They help us establish and continually renew our relationship with God. Through them we establish or reaffirm our covenant with God in response to God's grace. The sacraments of the church are baptism, confirmation of membership, the Lord's Supper (Communion), marriage, blessing of children, administration to the sick, ordination to the priesthood, and the evangelist's blessing.

Human Worth
God loves each of us equally and unconditionally. All persons have great worth and should be respected as creations of God with basic human rights. The willingness to love and accept others is essential to faithfulness to the gospel of Christ.

All Are Called
All men, women, youth, and children are given gifts and abilities to enhance life and to become involved in Christ's mission. Some are called to particular responsibility as ordained ministers (priesthood) in the church. The church provides for a wide range of priesthood ministries through calling and ordination of both men and women.

Free Agency
All people are free to choose, resulting in real consequences of good and evil to our lives, the lives of others, and our environment. Commitment to Christ, sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, and participation in the faith community help people make responsible choices that enhance human life and respect creation.

Stewardship
All things were created by God and should be used for God’s purposes. Stewardship is the wise management of gifts and resources to enrich personal, family, congregational, and community life, as well as utilizing natural resources for the good of all creation.

The Kingdom
God's kingdom is present wherever people acknowledge the lordship of God over life, relationships, and creation. The full coming of the kingdom awaits the final victory over evil when divine rule is established and justice, peace, and righteousness prevail.

Zion
The "cause of Zion" expresses our commitment to pursuing God's kingdom through the establishment of Christ-centered communities in families, congregations, neighborhoods, cities, and throughout the world.

Peace
Because of our commitment to Christ and belief in the worth of all people and the value of community building, we dedicate our lives to the pursuit of peace and justice for all people.

Resurrection
God conserves and renews life as revealed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, a sign of God's ultimate victory over death. In Christ’s resurrection, we find hope and courage for living. Through resurrection, God transforms individuals, bringing them into the fullness of eternal life.

Judgment
Our eternal destiny is determined by God according to divine wisdom and love and according to our response to God's call to us. God's judgment is just and is based on the kind of people we have become in relation to the potential of our lives.

End Time
God is acting in history to reconcile all creation to divine purpose. The meaning and end to which history moves is revealed in Christ. The ultimate victory of righteousness and peace over injustice, evil, and sin is assured because of the unfailing love of God and the conviction that Christ is coming again.
lds:
We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression.
We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.
We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon this the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.
(i couldn't copy and paste everything so just go to mormon.org if you want more)
and we aren't racist!

Answer 2

nicely the 1st version isn't the FLDS it somewhat is the community of Christ until now the RLDS- or Reorganized LDS. The FLDS broke off in some unspecified time interior the destiny after the church stopped the prepare of polygamy. i'm not sure while that occured. The LDS church believes in abiding by the regulations of the land. The prepare of polygamy stopped presently after a federal regulation banned plural marriage. Wilford Woodruff, the church president on the time recieved a revelation telling him to end the prepare- i'm useful that part of the rationalization the Lord stopped the prepare is so as that His human beings could be abiding by the regulations of the land. i think of there have been different motives too. as long via fact the Lord commanded it, the church could prepare it- inspite of what sort of outdoors tension there grew to become into. it somewhat is the Lord's church, no longer Joseph Smith's, no longer Wilford Woodruff's and not Thomas S. Monson's. The LDS faith is God's Church and He sits on the pinnacle and the church and directs it by his prophet. Edit i do no longer think of the FLDS ought to be observed as the unique church in any respect. If the flaws it somewhat is being pronounced on the subject of the church on the information are authentic, the FLDS isn't even training any of the unique doctrines. the only link is they use the e book of Mormon. The LDS Church by no potential forbade it somewhat is contributors from associating with the outdoors international and by no potential forced ladies into marriages. the unique LDS church by no potential taught the disgusting doctrines that the FLDS church teaches it somewhat is human beings. The extra I study on the subject of the FLDS church, the extra i comprehend that they broke faraway from the unique doctrines and characteristic perverted some alluring doctrines- and that they declare to do it interior the call of God.

Answer 3

The RLDS or their official public name "Community of Christ" their legal name is "Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Ladder Day Saints", is now run by a voted in through political means one Stephen M. Veazey. He is no relation to Joseph Smith or any relative so the patriarchal order as the grounds for establishing the church is now at an end. Veazey is the eighth president of the church and the second who is not a direct descendant of the church founder Joseph Smith, Jr.

They are a church of about 250,000 started 15 years after Joseph Smith was murdered. We have about 12,000,000 more added in the same time frame. There current leader has been shifting their doctrine closer and closer to mainstream beliefs so they better fit in with the standard Christian community. We believe that God set down a doctrinal map and you go His way regardless of the community of Christians.

Their "First Presidency" does not have to come from the "Council of Twelve Apostles" as we believe and they have women that serve in those same quorums. Therefore, leadership is a political activity not ordained with Priesthood authority and through many years of active leadership. We know the way it is done is that worthy selected priesthood holders are called into the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the senior member of that quorum (President of the quorum) becomes the new prophet. It takes a unanimous agreement of all 14 members (the first presidency comes out of the quorum and the survivors return to the quorum making it 14) to set apart a new president of the church.

Answer 4

RCJCLDS or The Community of Christ accepts the Trinity,One Almighty Eternal God who did not start out as a human being on some other planet,the equality of the Son with the Father and the Holy Ghost. They also ,however, accept the Book of Mormon as sacred but do not accept the "Brighamite Additions." They always rejected polygamy

Answer 5

Second largest Mormon group or whatever the terminology is.
I think it goes LDS, RLDS, FLDS.
They do not do baptisms for the dead, marriage is not eternal, I do not think they have a temple (they do not belive in LDS temple rituals) They do not have missionaries.

The RLDS Church has never held the view of the blacks not able to hold the priesthood (as the LDS church did until 1978) although Joseph Smith III claimed to have received a revelation which warned the RLDS Church to “not be hasty in ordaining men of the ***** race to offices in my church” since “all are not acceptable unto me as servants ...” (Reorganized Doctrine and Covenants 116:4.)

They do not believe Joseph Smith was a polygamist?
They used to be called the community of christ, lots of different beliefs from LDS.