Do/ Did your parents have different religions?

Question

Were you raised between 2 religions? how was it, what did you choose?

My dad is Pentecostal and my mom is Catholic and I ended up being Mormon. I baptized 4 months ago at the age of 18 ^_^ Both of my parents liked it :P the only one who does not agree with my desicion is my JW aunt and she looks down my Book of Mormon and anything I have church related.... but she's always nice to me as long as I don't talk about church.

Answer 1

The only observation that a non-Mormon might make regarding this question is simply to acknowledge that Mormons themselves claim to be nontrinitarian Christians; that is, they believe that Jesus the Son is a distinct person from God the Father. However, Mormons do not believe that the "God" of the so-called "New Testament" is the same "God" of the so-called "Old Testament"; Mormonism teaches that the pre-human Jesus is the "God" or "Jehovah" of the so-called "Old Testament".

This is obviously a fundamentally different theology than the other great nontrinitarian Christian religion, Jehovah's Witnesses. Jehovah's Witnesses believe the bible to teach that there are several references to Jesus in the so-called "Old Testament" which indicate that he is distinct from the "God" or "Jehovah" of the so-called "Old Testament". It is not enough to simply assert that a doctrine is true, and so Jehovah's Witnesses reason from the Scriptures on the matter...


It seems rather obvious that the apostle Luke at Acts 4:25-27 quotes from Psalms 2:1,2. Although these passages are part of the Christian and Hebrew Scriptures respectively, BOTH passages make it plain that there is an "anointed one" who is distinct from God. The Psalm plains calls that God by the name "Jehovah" (explicitly using the Tetragrammaton) and Acts plainly calls the anointed one by the name "Jesus".

(Psalm 2:1,2) [David wrote] Why have the nations been in tumult and the national groups themselves kept muttering an empty thing? 2 The kings of earth take their stand And high officials themselves have massed together as one against Jehovah and against his anointed one

(Acts 4:24-27) [Peter, John, and fellow Christians] with one accord raised their voices to God and said: “Sovereign Lord, you are the One who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them, 25 and who through holy spirit said by the mouth of our forefather David, your servant, ‘Why did nations become tumultuous and peoples meditate upon empty things? 26 The kings of the earth took their stand and the rulers massed together as one against Jehovah and against his anointed one.’ 27 Even so, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with men of nations and with peoples of Israel were in actuality gathered together in this city against your holy servant Jesus


Similarly, the apostle Paul at 1 Cor 2:16 and Rom 11:33,34 paraphrases Isaiah 40:13. Note that Isaiah explicitly uses the name "Jehovah" (the Hebrew Tetragrammaton), and 1 Corinthians plainly CONTRASTS the mind of Jehovah with the mind of Christ Jesus.

(1 Corinthians 2:16) For “who has come to know the mind of Jehovah, that he may instruct him?” But we do have the mind of Christ.

(Romans 11:33-34) O the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable his judgments are and past tracing out his ways are! 34 For “who has come to know Jehovah’s mind, or who has become his counselor?”

(Isaiah 40:13) Who has taken the proportions of the spirit of Jehovah, and who as his man of counsel can make him know anything?

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Answer 2

My dad was raised catholic, my mother mormon. He converted at 19 to mormonism, and hence I was raised as a LDS too. However, all my aunts and uncles are still Catholic :)

Answer 3

My folks were Roman Catholic! My WHOLE family is
Roman Catholic! I don't go to ANY Church. Is Church
Positive Thinking OR is it Dreamful Thinking; "If I say,
Jesus Sweet Jesus 3 times and give in the collection plate
then I'll go to Heaven!'

Is there a Heaven or is it a state of mind?

- John

Answer 4

My mom was a non-practicing Christian (Baptist, I think...) who was close to converting to Judaism and my dad was Jewish when they got married. For a little bit they were Unitarians because of the location of where they lived, then my mom converted to Judaism. So by the time I was born they were both Jewish. Whooo.... That's confusing.

Answer 5

Dad is a Trinitarian Christian, mom is.... ehhh...... well she believes in all this psychic stuff, ghosts, communicating with the dead, etc....

I am somewhat of a Biblical Unitarian Christian. I believe in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but I do not make the Trinity part of my creed.

Answer 6

My parents raised me Methodist, and when I converted to the LDS church at 15, they didn't care...my mom always said at least I didn't join a gang :p.

Answer 7

I wasn't raised in two different religions, but you have to be converted whether or not you're raised in any church, but especially an LDS one.

Answer 8

No, but all of my family on my dad's side are Born-Again Christians. There aren't really any problems. People ask me questions and I am happy to answer. One time my cousin told me that I don't believe in God. I responded by laughing in his face.

Answer 9

We were raised catholic, then my Mom went Buddhist, my dad went diestist sort of Methodist, my sister is Wiccan as is her husband, I'm Pagan and my husband is athiest. His family was Souther Baptist and my brother in law's family was/is Catholic. We have fun holidays. :)

Answer 10

Hey, Kim!
Well, to answer your question, both of my parents are LDS. My grandpa was in the Quarum (wrong spelling) of the Seventy! Isn't that awesome! Well, see ya on 360!

Answer 11

yes.
dad= Catholic [raised, really agnostic]
mom= Jewish

i chose my given religion which was Judaism, because in the Jewish religion, you are what your mom is. and also its way more logical that Catholicism.