Christian to Mormon?

Question

can i be christan and go to a mormon church and i forgot what r the diffferance's from mormon and christian ??

Answer 1

Yes, you can "be christan and go to a mormon church" and that might be a good way to get past some of the misconceptions you may have or may have heard.

Contrary to what many would have you believe, Mormons are Christian - that is if you define a Christian “one who believes or professes … to believe in Jesus Christ and the truth as taught by him … one whose life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ.” Or another common meaning is “a member of a church or group professing Christian doctrine or belief.”

Under either of these two definitions, Latter-day Saints (Mormons) qualify as Christians. However, if a special definition is created under which Christian means “only those who believe as I do,” then others might claim Latter-day Saints aren’t Christians.

As to "what r the diffferance's from mormon and christian" part of your question . . . the difference is not as great as is many believe. Just as there are differences between, for example, Baptists and Methodists, Catholics and Lutherans, etc., their are some points of doctrine that are different but many that are similar.

Answer 2

Yes, you can be Christian and go to a Mormon church. The full name of the LDS church is Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Mormons believe differs from Mainstream christianity, but as they are christian---I'm really not sure which church you are coming from to give you the differences.

Answer 3

All depends on which kind of christian do you are. The so called Mormon church real name is the Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter Day Saints. So it´s the restored Christ´s church.
If your mind and your hearth are open and you focus your participation in following the Savior it will be possible for you to find if it can be the true christian church or wont.

Answer 4

Mormons aren't that different from mainstream christianity (at least in my view).

They believe that they have a modern day prophet - and that the 'book of mormon' that Joseph Smith found was another testament of jesus christ, which outlines Jesus coming to the american continent years before europeans came here.

They used to allow polygamy (which had less to do with the church, and more to do with the society they lived in). It is no longer condoned by the church, though there are some offshoots of mormonism that still practice it - they are not recognized by the church itself.

Mainstream fundamentalist christians still view mormonism as a 'cult' - which is going to make it amusing to watch them squirm if the GOP nominates Mitt Romney.

Answer 5

Mormons believe the church Jesus established in Palestine, before its disintegration, was identical to the Mormon Church of today, with ceremonies such as baptism for the dead, a polytheistic concept of God (including eternal progression, the notion that God was a man who evolved into a god and that worthy Mormon males can evolve into gods), and other peculiar Mormon beliefs. The fact that no historical evidence exists to corroborate this position doesn't put much of a dent in the average Mormon's mental armor.

A chief reason is the devotion Mormons have for Joseph Smith. They hold he was God's mouthpiece. His "revelations" came directly from God. This belief points to Mormonism's weak point. If you can demonstrate to a Mormon that Smith was wrong about the great apostasy, Mormonism crashes down in a heap. If Smith was wrong about this point, he could not have been a true prophet of God, and Mormonism loses its basis (The Bible has strong words to say about false prophets in Deuteronomy 13:2-6 and 18:20-22.)

If Smith was right about apostasy, then Jesus was a pathetic failure when it came to establishing his Church. After all, what are we to think of his promises? If there really was a complete apostasy, how do we explain our Lord's claim that his Church never would be overcome, "Upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matt 16:19)? What about his promise that he would be with his Church until the end of time (Matt 28:20)? What about his promise to send the Holy Spirit as a guide who would abide with the Church (John 14:16,26)? What about the Holy Spirit guiding the Church into all truth (John 16:13)?

A key difficulty for Mormons is that they can't say exactly when the apostasy took place nor can they point to any definitive historical event of it. Other than Smith's claims there is only an interior feeling or testimony on which Mormons can base their beliefs, but such subjective proof proves nothing.

There are only a few chosen choices: (1) Jesus' words in the passages just cited were misreported; (2) Jesus did in fact say these things but didn't really mean them—at least not in the way they had been understood by Christians for the first eighteen centuries; (3) Jesus was a liar, or (4)Joseph Smith was wrong and Jesus meant what he said.

Mormonism's claim to be the "restored" church hangs upon there having been a complete apostasy. The late James E. Talmadge, prolific Mormon writer and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, wrote, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims the restoration of the Gospel, and re-establishment of the Church as of old, in this, the dispensation of the fullness of times. Such restoration and re-establishment, with the modern bestowal of the holy priesthood, would be unnecessary and indeed impossible had the Church of Christ continued among men with unbroken succession of priesthood and power, since the meridian of time [the time of Christ].

"The restored Church affirms that a general apostasy developed during and after the apostolic period, and that the primitive Church lost its power, authority, and graces as a divine institution, and degenerated into an earthly organization only. The significance and importance of this apostasy, as a condition precedent to the re-establishment of the Church in modern times, is obvious. IF THE ALLEGED APOSTASY OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH WAS NOT A REALITY, THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS IS NOT THE DIVINE INSTITUTION ITS NAME PROCLAIMS"[2] (emphasis added).
Therefore in evaluating the consequences we find that if no apostasy, no restoration, and if no restoration, no Mormonism.

God Bless
Robin
PS
This post is not a stab at denegrating the individual Mormon. There are some very fine individuals that are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Ladder-Day Saints. I was simply critiquing their belief system.

Answer 6

mormons missionaries (they had the name plates) show up to my church and handed out some info, we also had bishops shpw up to see why our church was so big (4 thousand strong), I am sure the mormons did not liek the coffee bar. Yes christians cna go to mormon churchs as for the differances, I said I would be nice to the mormons so, I will not answer that protion of the question here.

Answer 7

Technicalities. The Mormons added a new collection of writings to the bible, the Book of Mormon.

Answer 8

They practice baptism for the dead, Christians do not.
They practice eternal marriage, Christians do not.
They believe they are embryonic Gods and when they die they will be given their own planet to rule over, Christians do not.
They don't practice polygamy only because it is against Federal Law.
They don't practice Blood Atonement only because it is against the law.
Either you are a Mormon or you are a Apostate, punishment for being a Apostate is death.
I could go on and on with the differences but there simply is not enough space here.
Try reading The Kingdom of the Cults by Dr. Walter Martin.

Answer 9

First, since the LDS church is a CHRISTIAN church, and you are a Christian, well....

Anyway, ANYONE is welcome to attend our meetings every Sunday.

The biggest differences are: belief in living prophets and apostles; belief in extra-Biblical revelation; and belief in extra-Biblical scripture.

edit:
Robin, have you ever read Tallmage's book "The Great Apostasy"? You might just come away a believer.

Answer 10

mormons are christian despite what fundies will say. mormons believe that jesus is the savior of mankind, they've just added some wierd stuff to the whole mythology.