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We could probably all post some salacious fact about a former Pope. We could point a finger at the strange ways of the Amish or Mennonites. We might be able to dig up some disgruntled ex-born again evangelicals if desired. SO WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT MORMONS? Why single them out for threads like these?

The Mormon Christ

The following are actual mormon beliefs.

Mormon Teachings on Jesus Christ

The Son Was Made by a Divine Man and Woman

According to Mormons, Jesus Christ is their elder brother, since he was the firstborn in the spirit world. That is, God the Father and one of his heavenly wives begot Christ's spirit at some point in the eternity before earthly creation. This was made possible because the Father, who had previously lived, died, and was resurrected in some other world, had finally attained divinity for himself. As part of the blessings of godhood, he was given an eternal wife or wives with whom to procreate spirit children.

The Son-and All Created Things-Pre-Existed from All Eternity

The Mormon church correctly teaches that the Son exists from all eternity. It makes two mistakes, however. First, it holds that the Son's pre-existence was only as vague, unformed matter until his heavenly parents begot his spirit. Second, Mormons believe that his pre-existence-as they define it-is the pattern for all created beings. Thus, for Mormons, every person has existed from eternity; each spirit came into being in heaven by the union of God the Father and one of his heavenly wives. That spirit is eventually placed into the human body created by earthly parents.

Jesus Christ can be called the "firstborn" only because his was the first "spirit body" formed by his heavenly parents. There then followed the "spirit bodies" of all other rational beings.

Yet Scripture clearly states the Son created all things and is himself uncreated: "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist" (Col. 1:16-17).

We do well to remember the distinction presented earlier between Christ's divine and human natures. As the Second Person of the Trinity, the Son of the Father, Christ exists eternally. There never was a time when he was not. Because God is perfect and therefore changeless (change implying a movement either toward or away from some ideal or perfection), the Son did not undergo a "reformation" of component elements, bringing him into self-awareness or personhood. Jesus possessed both a divine and a human nature from the moment of his earthly conception. He did not grow into divinity either before or while living a mortal life among men.

Mormons admit Christ became God before he took on a mortal estate. Sometimes, though, their terminology is reminiscent of Greek or Roman mythology. One Mormon writer phrased his view this way:

"Mary, heavy with child, traveled all that distance on mule-back, guarded and protected as one about to give birth to a half-Deity. No other man in the history of this world of ours has ever had such an ancestry-God the Father on the one hand and Mary the Virgin on the other. . . . Jesus lived in a lowly home, the only man born to this earth half-Divine and half-mortal" (The Life and Teachings of Jesus and His Apostles, 10).

From Catholic Answers, which is in line with many other Christian's view of the Real Christ and the mormon Christ.

NOW, the mormons have produced a video in which they claim "this seven-part documentary series stands to affirm His divinity by reconciling the historical Christ (read the mormon Christ) with the Christ of religious tradition" (read the Christ of Christian belief)

Behold the Lamb of God is the first documentary that covers all phases of the Savior's life's spanning His premortal existence to the "restoration of the gospel" all told from a mormon perspective."

THAT, is just one reason that mormons, in your words ARE SO SPECIAL. There are many other reasons. If you follow these threads, you will likely see them presented.

Jesus lived in a lowly home, the only man born to this earth half-Divine and half-mortal" (The Life and Teachings of Jesus and His Apostles, 10).

Except for the FACT that Jesus was FULLY mortal and is FULLY divine!

You act as if the Catholic divinity is the same as the Baptist Christ or the Jehovah’s Witness’ Christ.

Why do you single out the Mormons?

I go to one church, there is a different church across the street. I don’t go to that one because their beliefs don’t ring true to me; but I don’t begrudge them for it, we are both Christians and I’m OK with that.

Threads like this one, posted solely for the sake of persecuting a person’s religious beliefs, reflect poorly on FREE REPUBLIC. You can take the gloves off when Mormons begin committing suicide, blowing themselves up, crashing hijacked planes into buildings or preaching the overthrow of the US Government.