Doctrinal Comparisons of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

After almost 50 years as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I am still amazed at the depth and simplicity of the doctrines of the Church. The Church is not a new religion. It is the establishment and organizing of the ongoing expansion of the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. With The Church of Jesus Christ again established on the earth in 1830, and the bringing forth of the Book of Mormon, the restoration of the fulfillment of prophecy and the latter-day works of Jesus Christ proceeding his second coming commenced. It is a restoration of God’s authority to prophet servants on earth.  Men and women were chosen before they were born. (Jeremiah 1:15).  They were chosen to stand as “watchmen on the tower” and organize the kingdom among all the people of the earth.   With this authority and direct connection with the God of Heaven, we now have a greater understanding than ever before of the wonders of eternity and the mysteries of an...

How is Love an Attribute of God's Perfect Nature?    We may have heard it said by some that God is Love. Such is the venacular for describing God in the modern Christian world.     What does it mean to call God our Father and why does he love us?     As many have undoubtedly pondered these questions, many different philosophies have arisen in the communities of Christendom and other thought avenues.  My personal viewpoint tells me that love begins with a relationship where creative powers come are considered.  Where do we see the most influential and powerful demonstration of love? It is in our families.  What drives and connects us in intimate ways that cause service and sacrifice to result from an inner desire to do them with selfish motives utterly absent.  That is not to say in the normal course of developing a relationship we are not often selfish, so it goes to say that acknowledging our weakness and being in a place to o...

Joseph Smith was rejected and criticized by his contemporaries because of his unrelenting testimony that he saw God, and for his claim that he had been called by God to restore authority to administer the fullness of the Gospel in preparation for the return of Jesus Christ to the earth.   The splintered condition of Christendom eventually resulted in clerics and professors of religion that would not nor could it support the idea of a single true church because of the many factions.  Jesus Christ presided over a single organization when he and his apostles were presiding over it on earth why would it be differnt today and why do the modeern scholars and clerby dismiss the concept of order in the Kingdom of God. These ministers and "men of the cloth or collar" at some point started their preaching careers viewing the gospel according to their own dictums and basic theology of seminary-taught Bible scholarship.  They also conceived a non-biblical "church of all true bel...