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2/13/13

What in the World do those Crazy Mormons believe, anyway? (part 1)

Elementary, my dear Watson.
We believe that a man must have more than one wife in order to get to heaven (we call this mormigamy, often confused with polygamy).... Or not.* :)

 To answer these questions, I am going to used 13 statements called "The Articles of Faith". These explain mormon's beliefs.

Statement #1: We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost. 
Pretty simple, right?

Some people have supposed that Mormons aren't Christians. Well, check our name. No, not "Mormon", that's a nickname. "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints". People who think we aren't Christian either get us confused with Muslims, or are just confused, period.

Not only do we believe in Christ, Heavenly Father, and the Holy Ghost, but we also believe that they are separate beings. How would we know this? Simple.
 When Jesus Christ was batized, He was in the water. The Holy Ghost desended on Him in the form of a dove. The Holy Ghost was in the dove, not the water. The voice of God was heard from Heaven. God was in Heaven, not in the dove, nor the water.
Another example: Acts 7:55-56 (KJV) 55 But he (Stephen), being full of the Holy Ghost looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
 56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
The Holy Ghost was in Stephen, God was in heaven, Jesus was also in heaven, but He was next to God.

That is the first statement of belief.


*(There was once a time in LDS history when the men were getting killed off at a stunning rate, leaving many women uncared for. God spoke to the latterday prophet of the time, Joseph Smith, and told him to use polygamy to take care of all of the women. Only certain men were chosen for this, and later God revealed that the time came for mormons to stop using polygamy. But this has stuck with the reputation of the mormons ever since.)

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