I've been told that, as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon, I believe in a different Jesus than other Christians. I am only aware of one Jesus. Were there really two of them? Who was the other Jesus' mom? Did he still perform any miracles? Did they live around the same time? Did they know each other? Did they compete for followers? I'm really confused now.
2007-12-19 05:58:00 · 23 answers · asked by Senator John McClain 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Beta - that made me laugh out loud (for reals). It's like George Forman's kids all named George.
2007-12-19 06:13:58 · update #1
Here's my take on it......
Example 1
When I was 3, if you had asked me to describe my dad and then asked his coworkers to describe him.... How well would those two descriptions have matched?.... "That's not the (fill in name) I know..."
I suspect that since there was only one Jesus Christ, Son of God, we're simply using different descriptions of the same being.
Example 2
There's this cave near where I grew up- Minitonka Cave (I think it means dripping water or something like that). Anyway, there's this stalagtite/stalagmite (or whatever it is called when it's a formation on the floor) that is kinda interesting- if you look at it as you're going in, it looks like a young couple standing really close, all snuggled up against each other. But from the other side, it looks like an old man pushing a woman in a wheelchair..... So are they two different formations, or is it just a different point of view?
I think that we LDS simply have a different point of view regarding Jesus Christ.
We love, honor and worship him. We follow his teachings... We just have a different point of view, and a description that is a little different from other Christians.
2007-12-19 06:19:03 · answer #1 · answered by Yoda's Duck 6 · 9⤊ 1⤋
There are probably may different understandings of Jesus but there is only one correct understanding and we can find that in the Holy Bible as the Holy Spirit gives us understanding. Some people understand Jesus to be equal to His Heavenly Father and some people understand Jesus not be equal to His Heavenly Father (thus two very different Jesus'.)
Many years ago I asked God to give me correct understanding and I believe He has (at the same time l surrerendered my beliefs and previous understandings or, really, lack thereof.) That understanding I believe that He gave me is:
The Father of Jesus is the "Most High God". The Most High God has a Holy Spirit (or power) within Him to carry out His will.
The Most High God has always existed. He gave birth to the only begotten God, His Son-Jesus before anything in the world was created.
He created everything in the world through His Son.
Many years later, He sent His Son to dwell in flesh through being born of a virgin woman so that all people that believe, repent from sin and abide in the Father and Son would one day receive eternal life with the Father and Son forever.
So, we have the "Most High God" who is the always existent Father God and we also have the only begotten God, Jesus who would never want us to believe that He is equal to His God and Father. And that is perhaps Jesus' greatest strength. Thank you for your time.
2007-12-19 08:09:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There's only one, and he is the Savior of everyone. While many have different views on what and who Jesus was, it does not mean there are more than one.
While each of us think we know the "real" Jesus, it would be worth the time to explore "everyone Jesus" before dismissing claims of others' as bogus. What happens if the other guy's Jesus ended up being the real one, and you callously ignored it?
2007-12-20 03:02:30 · answer #3 · answered by Kerry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is an analogous personage in each and each of the religions. this is merely the translation of each and every faith of who and what Jesus is that's distinctive in those religions. some Protestant sects have Jesus as element of an analogous trinity because of the fact the Catholics do. some view the trinity somewhat in any different case. The Mormon Jesus is the sole Begotten Son of God the daddy in the flesh. He replaced into the writer, he's our Savior, and he would be our choose. under the process our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ created the earth. by His suffering in the backyard of Gethsemane and by potential of giving His existence on the pass (that's, by potential of appearing the Atonement) Jesus Christ saves us from our sins as we carry on with Him. by His Resurrection, Jesus Christ saves us from actual demise. because of the fact He overcame demise, we can all get carry of the present of resurrection. And @Cheryl, you're employing anti-Mormon textile. Mormons do not, nor have they ever, taught that God had actual intercourse with Mary. they suspect what the Bible says and much less. The Church teaches that because of the fact God the Holy Spirit are 2 separate personages, Jesus is the Son of God, not the Holy Ghost. The Bible states that the Holy Ghost overcame Mary, yet this replaced into to permit Mary to stand up to the presence of God. How God impregnated her continues to be a secret, yet as he's God, He has greater wisdom and potential at His command, He did not ought to apply mortal approaches. And Kolob _is not_ a planet, that's a megastar, like our sunlight. God would not stay to tell the story it.
2016-10-02 03:00:50 · answer #4 · answered by hannula 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sen: There is only ONE Jesus, He came to Joseph Smith at His age of 14.
After he prayed for knowledge, as found in James 1:-5-8
And was told that all other churches was not of Him (Christ)
And that He was to start a new RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS OF His true Church, that happened 6 April 1830. New York USA.
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/js_h/1
2007-12-20 02:25:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No I do not think there were 2 Jesus christs but maybe the mormons have some different ideas of his life I do not know.
2007-12-19 06:18:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
That's because there's not 2 or 3 different Jesus. There was only one. Each denomination had different understandings of him is all and all that really matters is that you believe he died and suffered for your sins. By that definition we all believe in the same Jesus no matter what Christian denomination we belong to.
2007-12-19 11:48:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There was only 1
2007-12-19 06:06:48 · answer #8 · answered by Bob N 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I have a cousin who is Mormon and she has never mentioned that her Jesus is different from my Jesus. To my knowledge the only Jesus Christ son of God is the one we are taught about in the Bible.
2007-12-19 06:02:31 · answer #9 · answered by 9_ladydi 5 · 11⤊ 0⤋
Didn't Gordon Hinkley say exactly that, in essence? I may not remember the quote exactly, but it was something to the effect of "The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak."
I hunted up the reference: LDS Church News June 20, 1998 & April 2002 LDS General Conference
2007-12-19 06:12:57 · answer #10 · answered by Marji 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋