i’m no longer mormon but my family still is, and i’ve never ever heard such heretical things as those above after years in the mormon church.

mormons believe that the bible is the word of God, but that revelation was missing from his church until Joe Smith came along and restored this. they believe that salvation is only thru Christ, thru his atonement for our sins – not grace. that we don’t need to blame infants for adam & eve’s ‘transgression,’ but respect them as our earthly parents and worry about our own sins. that life is a lesson we were meant to learn and that after death we continue to progress. that Christ is the son of God but there is only one God. only one. they believe in the holy spirit, but don’t refer to these three as ‘the trinity,’ as there is only one god.

their biggest digression is that Jesus, after resurrecting, came to the Americas to teach the people here – ergo the book of mormon.

as a christian, i try to respect varied beliefs, for we all serve the same God. He created us all. judgmental myopia only tears us apart, especially when it comes to Islam nowadays. Mohammad apparently believed in Jesus, and taught that Allah was the same god as that of Moses and Abraham. if God deemed to reveal a way for the arab people to worship him, then who are we to judge? if so, God even sent his same angel gabriel to both Mohammad and Mary – and still we discount fellow believers of the same God, and fight over who’s better or closer to Him.

Christianity should be based on being Christ-like, not dogma, or else we are no better than the pharisees that believe in the letter rather than the spirit of the law. and even though i dont believe in the mormon religion, i do believe what Christ said is true: by their fruits ye shall know them. And aside from mormon intolerance against 10% of the population, whom God also created (and which is equally present in His animal world), i would say that otherwise, mormons have proven themselves to be true lovers and friends of their fellow men.

why belittle beliefs? we don’t need to believe the same thing to love one another, do we?

It’s been a while since I did this exercise, but I was able to proof text almost the entire Apostles Creed, phrase by phrase, from the Book of Mormon.

All the weird stuff comes in the later writings. I mention this only because if you’re witnessing to Mormons, sometimes it’s easier to start with the Book of Mormon which they trust. Surprisingly, the Book of Mormon is basically sound in its theology, just really wild with its history.

Also, the FAQ falsely states that all Mormons believe grace to be is what gets one a free resurrection. But Mormons also believe God’s grace to be what grants remission of sins and changes one’s heart so that one no longer desires to sin.

The funniest thing about the FAQ is the Bible passages cited in support of the claims. Some of them just don’t support the claims at all. Most obviously, this is true of the claims about the Trinity. The Bible simply does not support this doctrine, as real theologians will readily admit.

If I may, allow me to point everyone to GodNeverSinned.com, where I have done video interviews asking Mormons if they believe that God the Father was once perhaps a sinner before achieving godhood. The bulk of them are on the side of yes. If there one thing that most separates Mormonism and Biblical Christianity, it is that Biblical Christianity has a rock-solid position that God the Father never was a sinner.