It's April 27, 2024, 05:54:51 PM
i myself am a christian but i love to study islam but whoat else do they believe?
p.s. i was watching south park and i wanna know what they believe or are!
bla bla bla bla.... bla bla........//....... and it's a shame, really, because you'll never hear a mormon say a negative word about anybody. As a matter of fact, most mormons believe that almost anyone can enter heaven, no matter what religion you are.
Lot of ignorance here.Mormons believe that shortly after Jesus died, the church of Jesus Christ on the earth became corrupt, and lost it's priesthood authority (which was passed down from Adam all the way to John the Baptist, and then given to Jesus Christ by the laying on of hands). That's why the Catholic church, which Christ actually founded through Peter as the Church of Jesus Christ, became so corrupt in the dark ages, etc. They had no preisthood authority, which is the power to act in the name of god as a priest of his church.In 1830 a young boy named Joseph Smith claimed he saw God & Jesus, and they appeared to him and told him where a book was buried. He claimed he dug up the book, and translated it into what has become the book of mormon, a book compiled by an ancient american writer named, ironically, mormon. It tells of a lost tribe of Israel that moved to the Americas around 600 B.C., apparently with God's intent being to preserve a copy of the bible in America without the corruption that would take place in Christ's church after his death (the book would be buried in America, to be reopened later). Smith claimed he was visited not only by God, and Christ, but by several ressurrected beings, Peter, James, and John, John the Baptist, and the priest who hid the book, Moroni. Joseph Smith was hated for his views, and the members of his church (which he tought was the restored church of Christ on the earth) were driven from Ohio, New York, and other states. Smith was eventually killed by a mob while in Prison, but never once denied his story, even after his family was threatened, the harsh winter weather on the move killed one of his children, etc. etc. The Mormons moved west, and settled in Utah, where they probably killed a ton of Indians who had the land before them, I don't know, that's what Native American's apparently believe. Since generally, this is how we aquired all of America, I imagine it's correct. I don't know about the idea that they brought weed to Utah, but Mormons were counseled before they even left for Utah by Joseph Smith that God had told him Wine, Tobacco, and Caffiene were damaging to the body, and that it was a 'word of wisdom' from God not to take any of those products into their body, of course since then time has basically proven he was correct on all 3. Mormons can drink tea or caffiene or Wine or Coffee if they want, but most choose not to. Mormons do believe in Hell, they just believe you have to be a pretty bad person to go there. They believe in 3 heavens, because it's mentioned by Paul in 1st Corinthians, in the new Testament (I think several christian religions believe in Levels of Heaven). The book of Mormon tells the story of the history of the Americas (from a mormon belief), and early on in the book, there's a story of a king telling the Jewish people in America that it's against God's will to marry more than 1 woman.... When the Mormons moved to Utah, many, many Mormons died on the trip, because they left Ohio late in the fall, and travelled through the winter. Since Mormons believe it's a sin to live with a woman who's not your wife, many of the single women who had no husband or who's husband died on the trip opted to marry a man who was already married. Although I'm sure there were exceptions, most instances of Mormon Polygamy were out of necessity, not because they were trying to get their rocks off with 2 or 3 different women. The president of the church at the time, Brigham Young was married to several women, mainly because he was a fairly rich man. In the years to come, Mormons repeatedly tried to build a temple in Salt Lake city (where they settled) only to have problem after problem arise, the U.S. government even sent the U.S. army to Utah to destroy the temple, which Brigham Young had buried under the Utah sand to save it. The main purpose of the Mormon temples around the world is to marry two mormons found worthy of a temple or celestial marriage by the church Priesthood. The secondary purpose of the temple is to perform baptisms in proxy for all the people of the world who have died without hearing Christ's message, or having joined Christ's church. Mormons believe that if you baptise in proxy someone who died 200 years or so, their spirit which has been in a spiritual world can be freed to enter the church of Christ, and go on to join him in Heaven. They also believe the spirit has the choice not to accept the baptism into Christ's church, but they feel that any spirit who has passed on would jump at the opportunity. Mormons really aren't that weird. If you talk to any, they're just really spiritual christians. They're basically hated by other christians though, most christians don't feel that Mormons respect the sacrifice of Christ, since mormons feel that you aren't saved by Christ's grace alone, you have to work and do good deeds in order to be saved by Christ's grace (as it says in John chapters 3 and 4).
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