Mormons operate one of the world’s largest genealogical libraries. Are Mormons Christians? While many other religions do not recognize Mormons as being Christians, the LDS church believes otherwise. They believe that they are Christians because they do follow Jesus Christ just as other Christian religions do. They state that what separates them from the more traditional Christian churches is the way that they practice their Christianity.
With all of the differences in the dogmas between Christianity and Mormonism, there is strong evidence that these two faiths cannot be linked together solely on the fact that they both believe in Jesus Christ being the savior of mankind. Many Christians believe that Mormonism is not a true Christian religion, although Mormons make the claim that they are based on their faith in the Christ Jesus as the sole savior of the world. Can Mormonism, a polytheistic religion, truly be considered Christian, when Christianity
There are people who live in a secular world, worlds that is non-religious, but who identify, in their hearts, with Christianity. They are a breed of people who are challenging the Church to become ecumenical in its thinking and if the Church will not get out into the community to help others this group will be found doing the work of the ‘Church’. Pastoral Carers and/or Ministers have challenging roles that must include these Christians who will most likely never come into their Churches. The inclusion of these people will exemplify the most powerful form of love that could ever exist, a love that is unconditional and a love that does not come with wrong motives. The traditions of man must give way to this new generation of worshippers, worshippers who are not frequenting the Church but are in the communities helping, reading ‘spiritual’ books to help them learn about being great people, and having a relationship with God.
What seems to be obvious might not be true at all. Conventional wisdom can be considered as convenient. Some people would rather believe what others tell them to believe because it might be safer to be politically correct. Some people don’t have to worry about figuring it out because it has already been figured out for them. The major problem with conventional wisdom is that is difficult to prove otherwise because it is already fixed in people’s
A benefit for my position would be that you don't have to do something just because some deity or someone says its right. You do something because you know its right. Also, you are not restricted in what you do by something. You can live your life how you want to. But a drawback would be that you wouldn't be living for goodness or for a deity, you would be living for yourself and this could seem selfish to some.
Jon Belisle Anthropology 330-01 Chapter 5: Religious Beliefs and Practice: The Mormons The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints sounds like an innocent name to a religious Christian group. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is also known by many as The Mormons and has been in the making from around the early 1800’s, originated from a man named Joseph Smith. The Mormons have been fighting exclusion from the American Society from the start of their history because of different beliefs and practices than those of the “normal” Christians in America. Their journey started when Joseph Smith gathered a group of believers and headed west to Missouri and then eventually moved to the banks of the Mississippi.
Morality does not come directly from God. This is the idea behind the Autonomy thesis. This option says that an act is either immoral or moral based on things apart from the commands of God. Actions are right or wrong in and of themselves regardless of God’s commands. The issues with this option mainly deal with the definition of a theistic God.
Calvin’s idea of predestination suggests that some people are God’s ‘elect’ and that, after death, these ‘elect’ will join God in heaven. Believers in predestination claim that our actions, whether ‘elect’ or ‘damned’, are predestined or decided by God; meaning that we have very little, if any at all, free will in our decision making or actions. This theory of predestination often leads people to believe in a God ‘who favours some but not all of his creation’, which would be intrinsically linked to miracles in the sense that, regardless of what we do, God has already decided whether he will interact with the world or perform a miracle. Miracles, in this sense, are seen not as unsystematic breaches of natural law but rather as the eternal intention of God for the world. For this reason, people who agree with Calvin in believing in predestination often find it difficult to understand why miracles aren’t common occurrences.
The celestial kingdom is reserved for those individuals who believe and have faith in Christ, are baptized and confirmed members of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and they must receive all of the necessary ordinances of the Mormon temple to be able to be accepted into the celestial kingdom. The terrestrial kingdom is also called the glory of the moon. Individuals who once rejected the gospel but then accepted it after death will be granted acceptance into the terrestrial kingdom. This would also be true for those who did not abide by the commandments for both Mormons and non-Mormons. The third and final kingdom is the telestial kingdom which is also called the glory of stars.
Perhaps more so than Emotivists, Prescriptivists see ethical language as fairly meaningful. They believe that the terms used are able to create absolute rules that everyone ought to follow. It would seem that ethical language is seen by many as very meaningful, although for varying reasons. However agent centred theories such as Virtue Ethics would argue that our main focus of morality should be on becoming as virtuous as possible, rather than deciding what is meant by ethical language. Therefore it would seem that perhaps morality should be more focussed on individuals’ actions rather then defining what is meant by ‘good’ and