Posted on 01/17/2008 8:01:32 AM PST by greyfoxx39
Key Tenets of Mormon Faith By The Associated Press – 18 hours ago
Key tenets of the Mormon faith:
_Nature of God: God once was a mortal who became an eternal being after a great trial.
_Jesus Christ: Christ was God's first-born spirit child, his only earthly child and the only perfect mortal.
_No Trinity: Mormons reject the idea of the Christian Trinity — God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit as one ethereal being. Instead, they believe the three are separate beings joined in a common purpose.
_Pre-existence and the afterlife: Before their mortal birth, humans existed in pre-mortality and were born in the spirit world to heavenly parents. Mormons also believe in the resurrection and teach that most people will receive some measure of salvation and have a place in a three-level eternal kingdom.
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FReepers have been condemned here for bringing up the probability that Romney's religion will be used against him in the general election if he is the nominee. In my opinion, THIS is just the beginning, FIVE pages of Google results.
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Look, I’m no Mitt fan, but please let’s leave his faith out of it...to me it is no more stranger than some in my church believe: Transustantiation.
Transustantiation=Transubstantiation
I can’t imagine why the Mormonism should matter in any way.
I think the media is trying to rile up evangelical Christians.
It is not right to say doctrine doesn't matter at all. Take Islam, for instance. It would be dangerously naive to assume, as American civil religion does, that all religions are pretty much the same. It's true that most religions share core ethical teachings, but orthodox Islam also teaches unambiguously that there is to be no separation of religion and state, that non-Muslims are to live subservient under law to Muslims, and in some sects that Allah commands a jihad or "holy war" be waged against non-Muslim "infidels". To the extent that a Muslim wishes to preside over our pluralist liberal democracy, he will have had to break radically from his faith's fundamentals.
Liberals who insist that religion has no place at all in American politics have to account for the Christian roots of many social reforms. Consider for example the abolitionism and the civil rights movement. When faced with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and other black clergymen explicitly appealing to Christian scripture against Jim Crow, Southern segregationists groused that religion had no business in politics. You can't praise religion's role in political discourse only when it advances causes of which you approve or is practiced by constituencies blacks, say, that vote Democratic.
If God doesn't exist, then by what standard do we decide right from wrong? If a society recognizes no independent, transcendent guardian of the moral order, will it not, over time, lose its self-discipline and decline into barbarism? The eminent sociologist Philip Rieff, who was not a believer, said that man would either live in fear of God or would be condemned to live in fear of the evil in himself.
Mitt, himself, has placed his Mormon faith under scrutiny. In his recent speech on Mormonism, Mitt said that a person should not be rejected . . . because of his faith. His supporters say it is akin to rejecting a Barack Obama because he is black. But Obama was born black; Romney is a Mormon because he accepts the beliefs of the Mormon faith. This permits us, therefore, to make inferences about his judgment and character, good or bad.
Mitt has promised to fully obey Mormon teachings without hesitation and without question.
In his February 26, 1980 speech at BYU titled Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet, LDS President Ezra Taft Benson maintained the Mormon Church President spoke with inerrant authority on "any matter, temporal or spiritual " and was "not required to have any particular earthly training or credentials to speak on any subject or act on any matter at any time."Mitt either intended to honor his promises to follow another man's instructions, or he lied. In the case of the former, we are entitled to know where these directives lead, and in the alternative, we should be concerned about Mitt's honesty.As a Temple Mormon, Mormon Bishop and Stake President, Mitt has sworn among other things, he recognizes the President of the LDS Church as a "prophet, seer and revelator," and will "obey the rules, laws, and commandments of the gospel" as proclaimed by Mormon Prophets.
Mitt made these solemn vows with the understanding they effect "time and all eternity."
Therefore, contrary to what others have said on other threads, and will likely say on this thread, I assert the teachings of the Mormon Church and its prophets are an issue of extreme importance in this election.
Yall kind of missed the part where the LDS Church does not require any members to conform his political beliefs to the Church’s teachings. And how Romney did just that in Massachusetts.
Why all the links to the same article? I’m assuming most know that AP is widely picked up by the general press.
Also, where does this come from:
>Nature of God: God once was a mortal who became an eternal being after a great trial.
That’s not in LDS scripture (except maybe you could suggest that from the scripture that Christ has done all things that he saw the Father do).
What specifically would Mitt do, based upon his faith, that is of concern?
If Romney is elected and he if makes no attempt to influence law or policy with Morman doctrine. then what difference does it make if he is Mormon.
blah blah blah
Doesn’t help me pick a President
What are Romney’s issue stances? I can’t seem to remember with all these posts about his religion.
I agree. Some of our better presidents were Unitarian (Jefferson (Episcopalian when elected, later started US Unitarian Church), John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, & William Howard Taft). Eisenhower was a Jehovah's Witness. What's our track record of Baptist Presidents? Clinton & Carter? As long as the president has a strong moral foundation, I don't mind various religious dogma.
LDS isn’t confined by or to its ‘scriptures’, as the practice of polygamy proved. The assertion is founded on what LDS were being taught, unless it has changed in recent years. Has it?
And as Christians (Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, whatever), we don't.
What a novel idea.
Labels can be dangerous. It would be wise to avoid them, but if you choose to be labeled, there is no force strong enough to prevent it.
Especially since Mormons have been blowing themselves up and chopping heads off non-believers and every other thing that Islam followers have done! You are nothing more than a paranoid ingnoramus! To even equate faithful mormons with “faithful” muslims should be an outrage to every clear-thinking person on FR.
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