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Now correct me if Im wrong or am asking a very noob question....BUT:

Isnt mormanism a form of christianity? In fact there are several religions that are considered christian but dont go by that name. Why is that?
 
HRD, yes, that's exactly right. Mormons are Christians, in that they follow the teachings of Christ, but they have some doctrines that are very contrary to the Catholic and Protestant sides of Christianity. I'm not an expert on Mormonism, so I may be butchering this, but I understand that they don't believe Jesus was the son of God in the same way that traditional Christians do. They believe he was a good man, and that by his goodness and self-sacrifice, I guess, he became a God. They believe that we can all, through following his teachings, or something, also become gods ourselves. Then they also have the extra-biblical Book of Mormon, where Jesus comes to America and visits the indians I guess. I'm sorry I haven't read it.

Edit: It's actually wilder than I thought.

There are also Jehovah's Witnesses. They don't believe in the deity of Christ either, to the point that they have their own translation of the Bible where in John 1 it says "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was a god." Notice the "a" and the lower case "g." (http://carm.org/religious-movements/jehovahs-witnesses/john-11-word-was-god)

I suppose that's why they're not technically called Christian faiths, but I'm not sure. I'll look more deeply into it tomorrow. Were there any others you were referring to that don't call themselves Christian?
 
There's a notion that some Christians are true Christians because of how they interpret the Bible, while other Christians who interpret the Bible in unpopular ways are easily dismissed as not being True Christians. I wonder if there are True Mormons, and then the deviants. Is polygamy the True Mormonism? Polygamy/Bigamy are the only differences I've found in Mormonism. Both sides of that Mormon rift seem to participate in post-humus Baptisms which is kind of controversial. Mainly because they're Baptizing the dead by proxy regardless of what faith they devoted themselves to in their life.

And Wombat. I'm not trying to say for you to be anything but proud of your religious devotion. I hope you know I'm not trying to detract from your personal faith and how you relate to it. I just think other people of other faiths should be able to have just as deep of a belief and devotion to their faith without it being diminished for not being what your idea of faith should be.

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Regardless of what the atheist thread spent it's time talking about, it was the atheist thread. The Christian thread has spent no less time talking about Atheism. They should have their place to discuss atheism from their perspective, we should have a place to discuss whatever religion/non religion from our perspective. Freedom for all or freedom for none.
 
UnseenWombat said:
HRD, yes, that's exactly right. Mormons are Christians, in that they follow the teachings of Christ, but they have some doctrines that are very contrary to the Catholic and Protestant sides of Christianity. I'm not an expert on Mormonism, so I may be butchering this, but I understand that they don't believe Jesus was the son of God in the same way that traditional Christians do. They believe he was a good man, and that by his goodness and self-sacrifice, I guess, he became a God. They believe that we can all, through following his teachings, or something, also become gods ourselves. Then they also have the extra-biblical Book of Mormon, where Jesus comes to America and visits the indians I guess. I'm sorry I haven't read it.

Edit: It's actually wilder than I thought.

There are also Jehovah's Witnesses. They don't believe in the deity of Christ either, to the point that they have their own translation of the Bible where in John 1 it says "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was a god." Notice the "a" and the lower case "g." (http://carm.org/religious-movements/jehovahs-witnesses/john-11-word-was-god)

I suppose that's why they're not technically called Christian faiths, but I'm not sure. I'll look more deeply into it tomorrow. Were there any others you were referring to that don't call themselves Christian?
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Holy crap (no pun intended) I gotta reach deep down in my brain for this one.

The whole "jesus visted some indians" thing is not right. A prophet named Moroni came to visit a person named Joesph Smith. And Moroni had some gold plates with some words of God on it. I dont think they were the commandments. They were something else IIRC.

I know some of the main differences between christianity/catholics is that some believe that God, Jesus and the holy ghost are all the same thing, and the other half thinks they are 3 seperate things. IIRC (jeez im a little embarrased now) I think the mormons believe that they are 3 seperate things. I may have that all wrong. I cant remember.
 
Well I'm a Christian and I don't think that my religion is superior. I respect every Relgion that preaches love and happiness.

UnseenWombat, you should always remember that you being born in a Muslim family would have probably resulted of you being Muslim.
 
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