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

Discussion with AI:   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Traditional Theological Teachings Charlie Catholics and Protestants claim that God, i.e. the Trinity   created matter out of nothing and then created the Earth and everything else. This is known as creation ex nihilo. If God is truly all knowing and all powerful and created in this manner, there is nothing it can create that it would not already know the beginning from the end.   Such power would indicate that any creation would be whimsical because it would be unnecessary. There’s nothing God could create if it was truly omniscient as thought in traditional theology that would be meaningful.  Any act of creation would be unnecessary. Such acts therefore would be whimsical in nature by such a being since they are being done one time only according to biblical scholars and theologians. Grok AI These are deep theological and philosophical questions about the nature of God, creation, and purp...

Why the Trinity is Based on Illogical Philosophical Reasoning https://www.angelfire.com/space/thegospeltruth/trinity/articles/trinityfarce.html Introduction to the Fallacy In Trinitarianism, the one true God is the Triune God, a three person being. Now try to be honest with yourself and ask yourself what Paul the Apostle of Jesus really and truly intended to tell us when he wrote this: Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one. For even if there are gods, whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him. (1 Corinthians 8:4-6). Notice that Paul does not identify the one God as a Triune Being. He did not say, "for us there is one God: the Triune God." He identifies our on...

Modern Evangelicals and other "Mainstream Christians" have many apologists among their ranks. For millennia they have defended the church against heretics, agnostics, and atheists. Biblical apologists, however, devised new tactics when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Joseph Smith came on the scene in the 1820s.  The main goal of these “mainstream Christian”apologists is to discredit Joseph Smith in any way they can. The earliest apologists defended basic belief in God and Christianity against agnostics and atheists to divert their attacks in order to protect the church against claims and allegations that might destroy the faith of the weaker believers.  As the Christian faith aged along, heresies also developed within the ranks of those claiming authority or scholarship, and likewise had to be rooted out.  It has been some 200 years now since Joseph Smith made his first claims as a young man proclaimed to have seen the Father and the Son in a vision. ...

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...