Mormons, what is your authority?

Question

Is it the Bible? and other books too? or the Church? And if it is the Bible, do you believe in all of it or just what agrees with LDS Church?

Answer 1

* Christian churches regard the question of authority — the divine right to preach, act in the name of God and direct the Lord’s church — in different ways. Some, like the Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Coptic churches, emphasize a continuous line of authority from the early apostles. Some who broke away from those churches say they find authority in the inerrancy of the Bible. Others rely heavily on a sense of “calling” to the ministry. Latter-day Saints have a distinctive view of priesthood authority that helps define them.
* The New Testament describes the church established by Jesus Christ as one with structure and form. The apostles were at its head, and as recipients both of ordained authority and revelation, they were charged with guiding the church and keeping its doctrines pure as it expanded throughout the known world.
* The fact that the original church of Jesus Christ would eventually fall into a state of apostasy was foretold by ancient prophets and by the apostles in Christ’s day.
* Although Latter-day Saints believe that divine authority was lost in the ancient church after the death of the apostles and required a restoration by divine intervention, they do not dismiss or diminish the validity of other people’s religious experiences:
o Much of the true doctrine taught by Jesus Christ is found in churches today.
o Members of other churches who accept Jesus Christ and try to live by the principles he taught are entitled to divine guidance and inspiration in their lives.
o Faithful Christians who are not Latter-day Saints still go to heaven, and those who live according to all the truth and light they have will open themselves to further light in the hereafter.
o Anyone who accepts Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the Redeemer of the world is a Christian, regardless of differences in theology.
o The Bible is a revelation from God, of immense value for the powerful impact it has to change the lives of men and women. It is not diminished by the existence of additional scripture.
* For Latter-day Saints, the restoration of priesthood authority in the first half of the 19th century was a literal act through angelic visitations from those who held the authority anciently. Divine authority was restored to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through a visitation of the resurrected John the Baptist in 1829 near Harmony (now Oakland), Pennsylvania, and sometime afterwards through the appearance of the resurrected ancient apostles Peter, James and John.
* Today, all members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who hold the priesthood trace their authority directly to these visitations and bestowal of the priesthood of God on Joseph Smith and early leaders of the Church. A person receiving the priesthood today customarily sits while a person who already holds the priesthood stands and places his hands on the recipient’s head and formally confers that authority.
* The “Apostolic Keys” of priesthood authority today — by which is meant the right to direct the Church — are believed to be vested in the modern apostles in the same way that the ancient apostles had the authority to direct the early church.

Answer 2

I was raised a Mormon but I don't believe it now.
However I do think this description is fairly accurate to a current Mormon's beliefs.

This is the 2nd Article of Faith that describes the Mormon belief,

"We believe the Bible is the word of God as far as it is translated correctly, We also believe the Book of Mormon is the word of God" _-I think I got it in the right order.


Mormons believe in the prophets of the Mormon church. There is always one and when he (always Male) dies the next one in the line up takes his place.

The first prophet "translated" a set of scriptures from golden plates. (IDK... do only mormons believe that the bible came from translated brass plates?) Anyway the book of Mormon is translated "correctly". The bible was translated so many times that it has glitches. Joseph smith (the first latter day prophet- made some translations to the bible) But all in all the prophets give clarification when needed. The scriptures are usually metaphors and parables tied together with history.

Answer 3

Our authority? Ummm, I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but we believe the Bible to be true as long as it is translated correctly. Basically, the Bible has been changed a lot since the original writings which has caused many contradictions (as many people seem very happy to point out). However, the prophet Joseph Smith received revelations about certain corrections that needed to be made to the bible. For example, in John (I can't remember the chapter or verse, sorry) it says something like "No man has ever seen God" However, in Exodus it says that Moses talked to God "as a man speaketh to a friend" How then, can it be written that no man has seen God? Well, Joseph Smith got the revelation that the original verse in John was something along the lines of "No sinful man has seen God" Well, that makes more sense, doesn't it. So it's things like that that got changed.
If you have any more questions feel free to e-mail me. I hope I answered this question to your satisfaction.

Answer 4

Paul wrote in Galatians " But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

In the same manner Heavenly father gave guidance to his people in ancient times, he does today through prophets:

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

Further the priesthood was restored to the earth by Christ's apostles who were last authorized to have the power and keys.

We agree with all the Bible that is translated correctly. It is others who omit the plain and precious truths that have been restored. This is not surprising. Christ quoted Psalms said is it not written in your scripture that ye are gods? The people there wanted to stone Him. When Joseph Smith said the same thing, he was defamed.

Answer 5

The four standard works: the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. The modern prophet: Gordon B. Hinckley. And the other modern prophets and apostles.

Answer 6

that's as complimentary to the Bible as Moby Dick is complimentary to the Bible. that's yet another e book, it seems comparable to it while that's sitting on a table. I also have a tough time respecting the Mormon doctrine through fact I even have actually study it, as against being raised interior the Mormon church and having it shoved into my suggestions very such as a suppository is shoved into the anus. The e book of Mormon is an excellent gadget to extra efficient understand the heretical ideals that have been held via many early Christian communities (the 1st via 4th century). I do exactly not be conscious of the way Mormons can declare to be a monotheistic faith while their literature is something yet. i think that's like attempting to place a around peg right into a sq. hollow. The Mormon faith purely would not in high-quality condition interior the Christian faith. I do besides the fact that could supply props to Joseph Smith to being the biggest con artist who has ever lived. My father exchange into very adversarial in direction of me announcing that Mormonism did not originate interior the nineteenth century yet actually closer to the 1st century. that's, besides the fact that, a actuality. Joseph Smith could have had some form of information of the gnostics with the intention to create such an intricate scam. The backyard of Eden exchange into not in Missouri, Jesus by no capacity got here to the Americas, black human beings are not cursed via G-d. Come on now Mormons. enable's initiate utilising our brains quite of our (expletive).

Answer 7

They accept the entire Bible, Book of Mormon, and what the current prophet says.

Answer 8

It's the authority of the prophet and the apostles. They tend to change things that are supposedly "scripture" to go along with social pressure of the time.

For example:
-Letting African Americans have the priesthood
-Banning polygamy
-changes to the Book of mormon and other written works.

Answer 9

I believe in the Bible from front to back and I believe in the Book of Mormans.

Answer 10

Mormons rely more on the book of mormon than the Bible. Their church is not Biblical and they know it.