Monday, August 25, 2014

Mormonism


The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS), also known as Mormonism, was founded in 1833, when its founder Joseph Smith claimed to have received golden tablets with its doctrine written on them from the angel Moroni (not in the Bible).

They teach that the church died with the first apostles and was restored with Joseph Smith. They teach the Godhead is three separate beings, not a trinity in unity. God the Father has spirit babies in heaven (and Jesus and Satan were two of these) who inhabit human bodies when born. They believe that Jesus lived a perfect life and therefore, attained godhead, but that his death did not atone for our sins. Therefore, we must do good things to attain heaven, and can actually become gods of our own worlds if we are good enough.

Here I have attempted to compile a list of all of the early Christian Church Heresies they subscribe to:
  • Monarchianism, which is that God is a single person, not a trinity
    • Unitarianism, that Jesus is the son of God in some other sense
    • Dynamic Monarchianism, that Jesus is not-coeternal, but granted godhood
  • Audianism, where God the Father has a human form.
  • Montanism teaches that continued prophecy is important
  • Arianism that Jesus was created by the father in a non-physical form before becoming incarnate
  • Influences from Macedonianism. While they do not deny the divinity of the Holy Spirit, they deny he is one with the Father and the Son.
  • Palagiansim denies original sin and states that human nature is not bad
  • Monophysitism taught that Jesus has one nature.

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