Is The Mormon Church A Restoration Movement?

The Trinity is to me, 3 persons in one Godhead.

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Luther taught that
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is not from good works, but a free gift of God, received only by
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through
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in
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as redeemer from
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challenged the authority of the
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of the
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by teaching that the
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is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge.
Du bist meine Zuflucht, bei dir bin ich sicher wie in einer Burg. Mein Gott, ich vertraue dir! Ps. 91:2.

That mormons have a curious belief in the plurality of Gods is true, however, they pray to one single God.

What Christians refer to as the Trinity, Mormons view as three seperate Godheads.

To clarify, Mormons believe that the trinity is made up of three separate 'Gods' - God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost. One single Godhead, three separate personages.

To clarify, only those that obtain exaltation in the highest Mormon heaven continue on in eternal progress to become Gods.

That mormons have a curious belief in the plurality of Gods is true, however, they pray to one single God.

Interesting, to me, that they encourage a relationship with Jesus Christ, yet, they never talk with Him. They only direct their prayers to their "Father in Heaven."

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It really boils down to this: Do you believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, and do you believe his words to be inspired and true.

Mormons answer, "Yes."
Christians answer, "No."

Everything else is built up on the answer to that question.

What is the restoration movement?

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Mirabelle

No.

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I did some work comparing Joseph Smith and Alexander Campbell and a few others while I was attending university. I would argue that Mormonism and the other groups that are traditionally associated with Mr. Campbell and the like are all born out of the same movement. There was a fervor to return to the basic, primitive form of Christianity in the early 1800s. Both "groups" (I use the term lightly) have that drive as their basis.

In this respect, they are both restoration groups. The next question, I would argue, is not "Restored to what?" because both groups wanted (at least claim to want) to restore the original church that Christ established. The next question we should ask is "How did they go about pursuing restoration?". I believe that the different answers to that question resulted in the manifold differences that we see today.

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Mar 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.
Col 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Rom 10:9 because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved
Rom 10:17 So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

I left the Mormon church that I grew up in and truly found and internalized Christ, which is something I never understood how to do in my former church. Christ always seemed more like a storybook character before, someone I learned about second to Joseph Smith. Since becoming a wholehearted Christian, I understand the direct fellowship Christ wishes to have with us. Its an amazing thing to be directly connected to Him rather than seeing him through a blurred window of "ideas".

I have heard others who have left the church say that we do not preach or understand Christ. Or that we place Joseph Smith above Christ. This is so far from the truth. Joseph Smith was just a man and imperfect at that. Christ is the Savior of the world. Because of A restoration, we understand more clearly the importance and purpose of our life, and our intimate spiritual relationship with Christ. I am not saying that those of other beliefs can not have a close relationship with Christ, but that through more ancient and modern revelations we have more truth available to us. We do emphasize Joseph Smith more than other prophets because he is the prophet of the restoration. But certainly not more than teach of Christ and the purpose. Through Joseph Smith many of the revelations and guidelines on the workings of the restoration and function of the Latter Day Church is spelled out. So I guess I am at a loss as to how you could precieve what you do.

Fatboys, I had to send you a pm because apparently I don't have enough posts to be able to leave such a lengthy response in the forum...weird.

I always found it funny (not in a haha way either), that "Christian" Churches, like the Baptist, Methodist (which I have to tread carefully, my gf is Methodist), Episcopalian etc etc, are just that "Christian" churches, yet, here we have the Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter Day Saints, and they're known as MORMONS, not CHRISTIANS....ummm...huh...weird.

I'm not a MORMON, just something I have noticed...