I was thinking of past religions and I noticed that Mormons have similarities with Catholics Lutherans and Assemblys of God (in church)
2007-05-23 05:11:13 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It only makes sense that all Christian sects and denominations would many similarities. After all, they all use the Bible and recognize Jesus Christ as their Savior.
While there are many differences in how they view the Savior and how they worship, the two things above will guarantee that there will be similarities.
2007-05-23 08:54:03 · answer #1 · answered by Raising6Ducklings! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot of similarities.
Obviously all are Christian religions. That will account for most of the similarities.
Catholics and Mormons both believe in a centralized priesthood. Lutherans believe in a variant idea. (Well, sort of.)
Assembly's of God believe in gifts of the Spirit, as do LDS (Mormons).
Lutherans and Catholics both have a similar liturgy. Actually Mormons have a private "liturgy" (they don't call it that, but the concept is somewhat similar.)
Assembly's of God and Mormons both believe in modern revelation, at least at a personal level.
Catholics and Lutherans have massive overlap of doctrines because Martin Luther was just trying to be "catholics" with a few tweaks.
Catholics and Lutherans both believe that the communion literally becomes the body and blood of Christ.
All believe the Bible to be the word of God. All believe in the Trinity (though Mormons interpret it differently). All believe in salvation through grace.
In short, there is a lot of overlap between each of them, but they are significantly different in many ways.
2007-05-25 18:04:31 · answer #2 · answered by BryanN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholics had a very bad past and so do the Mormons. However, I think that the Catholics past is worse than the Mormon past. That is just my personal opinion on what I know about the past of both churches. I think
God sees both as having been corrupt and in his mind it doesn't matter which one was worse. I don't know anything about Lutherans or Assembly's of God
2007-05-23 20:55:14 · answer #3 · answered by Peggy Pirate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics = AG
Lutheran = Catholic (I know, Martin Luther would be flippin in his grave!!!)
We have deviated so much since the awesome Protestant Reformation!!! The AG church is an abomination! It all came out of Finney's feel-good-gospel crap and even worse, he denied that Christ's sinless life and death secured salvation for no one but Himself! This is the roots of the AG. No wonder it's so wacked today.
2007-05-23 12:16:40 · answer #4 · answered by Soundtrack to a Nightmare 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All Christian religions would have similarities in that the profess to believe in Jesus Christ. That would be the similarities. Additionally, most denominations have differences as well; that is why they are separate.
2007-05-23 12:18:56 · answer #5 · answered by Kerry 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, probably. The Abrahamic belief systems have many overlapping similarities as well as differences.
2007-05-23 12:14:35 · answer #6 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, as it is a made up religion. But, I better watch what I say because they tend to jump on people that point this out.
2007-05-23 12:14:50 · answer #7 · answered by Jed 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
There's a Mormon group in the US that openly swap and marry children, so I suppose it's not too unlike the Catholic priests that also abused children..
They would've voted for Bush too..!!
2007-05-23 12:16:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
There are some similarities but there are more differences.
2007-05-23 12:16:04 · answer #9 · answered by stpolycarp77 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
just to let everyone know that don't know that anything that isn't Catholic is a protestant and Christan's and Catholics are the same thing if you were smart enough you would know this.
2007-05-23 12:17:16 · answer #10 · answered by Lynn77 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋