{"id":1457,"date":"2013-01-02T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/mormonism-part-1-of-2-who-are-the-mormons\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:56:08","slug":"mormonism-part-1-of-2-who-are-the-mormons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/mormonism-part-1-of-2-who-are-the-mormons\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormonism (part 1 of 2): Who are the Mormons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-1456\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/mormonism1%20copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 10px 15px;\" width=\"425\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Mormonism &#8211; <\/em>the doctrines and practices of the Mormon Church based on the Book of Mormon<em>.<\/em>[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mormons are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.\u00a0 The name Latter-day comes from \u00a0the belief that after the death of the early apostles, the Christian church fell into apostasy \u00a0and needed to be restored in the \u201clatter days\u201d.[2]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS) was established in 1830 and since that time it has grown from a small congregation to a worldwide religion of over 14 million adherents.\u00a0 Although the centre of the church is in the American state of Utah, only 14% of Mormons live there.\u00a0 The Church has nearly 30,000 congregations in more than 130 temples across the globe.\u00a0 It prints monthly magazines in 50 languages, and has published more than 100 million copies of the Book of Mormon in over 93 languages.\u00a0 Currently (2012), LDS has more than 50,000 missionaries in 162 countries.[3]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the most basic level Mormonism shares most Judeo-Christian beliefs; the creation of the world, the stories of Adam and Eve, the flood and the prophets.\u00a0 However they do take a slightly different approach to some of these stories.\u00a0 For example, Mormon\u2019s believe that the archangel Michael was born on earth as Adam, the first mortal man.\u00a0 In the Mormon version of the creation story, Jesus Christ, who before his birth was the Jehovah of the Hebrew Bible, created the earth and all things on it at the direction of God the Father.\u00a0 This is a notion very similar to the beliefs of the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses.[4]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Mormon understanding of God is quite distinct from what most Christian denominations believe and it goes without saying that it is very different from both Judaism and Islam.\u00a0 Mormons believe that God is immortal and that He was once a man albeit a perfect and exalted man.\u00a0 God is not of another species, nor is he the great unknowable one; he is indeed our Father in heaven.\u00a0 God according to the Church of Latter-day Saints is literally the father of every human being.\u00a0 He has a body, and emotions like all human beings.\u00a0 To Muslims and Christians alike this sounds blasphemous and contributes to the reasons why most Christian denominations do not consider Mormons to be Christians.\u00a0 In fact in both the Catholic and Methodist denominations Mormons who convert are required to be baptised into the Christian faith, which is not usually the case when Christians leave one Christian denomination for another.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Mormon belief that strikes at the very heart of anyone practising one of the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) is the insistence that Jesus is the Son of God in the most literal sense.\u00a0 He is the eldest brother of all mortals and the firstborn spirit child of God.\u00a0 They believe that from Mary, a mortal woman, Jesus inherited the capacity to die, and from God, an exalted being, he inherited the capacity to live forever.[5]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Consequently and based on what most Christians believe, the Mormon version of the Trinity is somewhat unusual.\u00a0 According to Mormons, the Trinity is a Godhead that consists of three separate, distinct beings, God the Father, also called Elohim, Jesus Christ, who is also the Jehovah of the Old Testament and the Holy Ghost.\u00a0 Mormons also believe that there is more than one God and that human beings have the potential to become gods.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Like a pendulum Mormon beliefs swing between what is accepted by mainstream Christian churches and their own peculiar mix of Christianity and visionary stories.\u00a0 According to research scientist and former Mormon Bishop, Simon G.\u00a0 Southerton[6], The Book of Mormon is based on the concept that Meso-America was an uninhabited land peopled by Jews who floated across the ocean in a boat that resembled two large dishes fastened together to form a hollow.\u00a0 Needless to say there is no historical or archaeological evidence to support this theory.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nonetheless Mormons believe that the resurrected Jesus ministered to these people, called the Nephites.\u00a0 He appeared before a congregation in their temple, and allowed them to feel the wounds in his hands and feet.\u00a0 He stayed with them for several days, teaching and healing and ordained twelve disciples.\u00a0 He gave the people various commandments and presented them with the gift of the Holy Ghost.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mormons earnestly believe that Jesus Christ began his restoration of his church on earth through the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1820.\u00a0 Joseph began having visions of restoring the church at age 14, and claimed to have the same teachings and basic organization as the Church established by Jesus in New Testament times.\u00a0 According to an LDS official website[7], \u201cIn 1823 Joseph Smith was visited by a heavenly messenger named Moroni just as angels often appeared to Apostles in the New Testament.\u00a0 Moroni told Joseph about a record of the ancient inhabitants of the American continent (the Nephites) that was buried in a nearby hill and was written on thin metal sheets of gold.\u201d \u00a0Joseph found the plates near his home in Palmyra, New York.\u00a0 With heavenly inspiration, because Joseph did not understand the \u201creformed Egyptian\u201d language written on the plates, he translated the book into English.\u00a0 The book was named the Book of Mormon after the ancient prophet who compiled it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Along with the Book of Mormon, Mormons believe the Bible is sacred and like Muslims they believe that the words of God found in the Bible are a mixture of truth and error because many have been changed, or forgotten.\u00a0 However the Mormon version is in no way acceptable to Islam.\u00a0 The Mormon sacred scripture also includes a book called The Pearl of Great Price, which includes two lost books of the Bible, a translation of the Gospel of Matthew, and the 13 Articles of Faith; and The Doctrine and Covenants, a group of 138 revelations from God and two other official documents.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">In the next article we will continue to explore the differences between Mormonism, mainstream Christianity and Islam.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"text-align: justify;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Footnotes: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[1] (wordnetweb.princeton.edu\/perl\/webwn)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[2] (http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Faiths\/Christianity\/Latter-Day-Saints)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[3] (http:\/\/mormon.org\/faq\/the-mormons)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[4] (http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Library\/Mormonism\/)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[5] (http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Faiths\/Christianity\/Latter-Day-Saints\/)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[6] http:\/\/www.ctlibrary.com\/ct\/2004\/october\/8.20.html<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[7] Ibid<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ref: www.islamreligion.com<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mormonism &#8211; the doctrines and practices of the Mormon Church based on the Book of Mormon.[1] Mormons are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day&hellip; 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