Where did the term Mormon come from?

Question

And why are Mormons known as Mormons?

Gumby - Don't worry i won't thumbs you down for explaining your religion. If anything I just gave you a thumbs up.

Answer 1

Because of the Book of Mormon. It's scripture that we consider another Testament of Christ. It goes hand in hand with the bible. Our officially name is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. (LDS)
Mormon was the prophet who arranged the Book of Mormon.

Please no thumbs down here. If you don't agree with my religion that's fine, but this is why we're know as Mormons.

Answer 2

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It comes from The Book Of Mormon, sacred to the Mormon Church. It is believed by Mormons to be an abridgement by a certain prophet (Mormon) of a record of certain ancient peoples in America. It is said to have been written on golden plates, and discovered and translated by Joseph Smith. Smith founded the Church of Latter Day Saints.
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edit: Wow... I gotta start reading the other answers first! Lotta knowledge signed in here tonight!
for Gumby... I sure hope not! Yours is a succinct explaination, and as accurate as any I've ever heard.

Answer 3

We have been given the term "Mormon" from our belief in the Book of Mormon. The official name for the our religion is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Book of Mormon, by the way, was named after a prophet whose name was Mormon. Mormon authored some of the Book of Mormon, and edited and abridged other parts of it onto gold plates (as gold was plentiful in the Americas and easy to work with). Joseph Smith then translated the plates into the present-day Book of Mormon.

Answer 4

Joseph Smith was called by God to be a prophet and to restore Christs church to the earth.

He was commanded to find and translate an ancient text that was written by prophets who lived in the Americas more or less during biblical times.

Many prophets wrote their words. Mormon was one of the last prophets. He compiled many of their writings into one Book that is now known as the "Book of Mormon."

So the term Mormon became a nickname for someone who belonged to "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints".

Answer 5

Mormons are actually members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Mormons was a nickname given in the 19th century and its obviously stuck. Officially though, we prefer the term LDS, but most Mormons are fine with the term "Mormon" and we use it amongst ourselves as much as the term LDS.

Answer 6

Mormon was (we believe) an ancient prophet of God, living on the western hemisphere. He wrote, as he was inspired by God, and edited what other prophets wrote, and left the plates in a place where someone else could find them later. Joseph Smith was the one who Moroni (Mormon's son) helped find the plates and translate tem into what we know today as the Book of Mormon, another testament of Jesus Christ.

Answer 7

The term "Mormon fundamentalist" appears to have been coined in the 1940s by LDS Church Apostle Mark E. Petersen.[12] Today, however, the LDS Church considers the word "Mormon" to apply only to its members, not to members of other sects of the Latter Day Saint movement. The LDS Church therefore claims that there is no such thing as a "Mormon fundamentalist," nor that there are any "Mormon sects." The LDS Church suggests that the correct term to describe these splinter groups is "polygamist sects." [13]

Answer 8

The term is first recorded around 145 BC. It was the name of an area in ancient Americas that had a pool of water and was sometimes inhabited by wild animals. A group of people had to flee their homes because of persecution and would meet there and were baptized. http://scriptures.lds.org/en/mosiah/18

Later, it was the name of a prophet-historian. He was named after his father. He took about 1000 years of writings of other prophets in the ancient Americas and compiled them into a single record, and called it the Book of Mormon, and gave it to his son, Moroni. Moroni added a few writings of his own and others and buried them. In 1827, Moroni returned as an angel and gave this record to Joseph Smith who was able to translate them into English.

Later, people who believed Joseph were called "Mormons" in a deregatory term similar to n*gger. We came to accept it and even embraced it for a while. Lately, the leaders of the Church have encouraged us to refer to ourselves as Latter-day Saints instead of Mormons.

Answer 9

Joseph Smith came up with that name.

One other thing--the book of Mormon doesn't complement the Word of God.

The Word of God says that it is appointed unto man to die once and after that is the judgment.

There is no more chance for repentance once you have died.

II was given a dvd by the Mormons that showed how Joseph Smith discovered the book of Mormom.

In that dvd he quoted scripture from the King James bible (one verse from Psalms 119 and I forgot the other scripture).

Then a light shone down from heaven (whom he said was God).

According to the Word of God, no man can see God and live. So how did Joseph Smith still manage to live after he had seen God?

Can any of you Mormons answer that question?

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