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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    And let us not forget these verses of the Bible: Gen 1:26: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness..." Gen 3:22: And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us.." (emphasis mine) Multiple divine persons, one God.
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    @Enoch111 , a person doesn't have to believe in sola scriptura in order to be a Christian. Rather, being a Christian is about being a disciple of Christ (see Acts 11:19-26).
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    Thank you for this thoughtful post. LDS Christians don't use any special definition for "person". Not believing in Creedal statements of consubstantiation, there's no special definition of "being" or saying "three persons in one being through a shared ousia/substance". Rather, the *how* LDS...
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    LDS Christians do indeed believe that the Father, Son, and Spirit are three different divine persons in one God. That is official doctrinal stance. However, LDS Christians do not subscribe to the Athanasian Creed and differ in the *how* three persons are one God than that Creed's statements on...
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    They have two venues: During the winter season why have sing from their Tabernacle building: it's a concert/preaching hall, and all performances/practices are completely open to the public and free. You can also just tour the building. That's their traditional venue. To accommodate larger...
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    *bumping up this because God is the important subject*
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    You are indeed welcome to visit LDS Christian Sunday services, join in remembrance of Lord's Supper, come to Sunday School, midweek activities, etc. You can even share your testimony of Christ over the pulpit on open mic weeks. Like every other church, in order to be a priest/leader you must...
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    That the blue comment needs a lot of clarification on what is meant.
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    God is subject worth spending time talking about :) It's not something that we can fully understand (not with our little brains!), but certainly worth spending time at least briefly addressing.
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    Before we get to that we first we need to first talk about the fact that the Father, Spirit, and Son are three different persons. Do you believe that they are 3 different persons or 1 or ?
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    Reposting this, in case you missed it @Prayer Warrior (originally post 603) Let's start with basic & super important stuff: The Father, the Son, and Spirit are three different divine persons. When Christ is baptized, it is the Father (a different person) saying from Heaven "this is my beloved...
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    The Gospel of Matthew is indeed Great.
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    If you're asking about the First Vision, here's a link: First Vision But that is not the origin of the Gospel nor the core of it.
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    Grailhunter, I know you, your honestly and sincere Christ-like approach to things here. I'm not remotely defensive with you. My highlighting that I am a disciple of Christ is not a matter of being defensive, but stating honest beliefs. I'm really not a disciple of Jospeh Smith and he's not...
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    Because you do not understand what you read- there's a lot of misconceptions that traditionally go into both sides here. For one such example: many LDS Christians have the misconception that Creedal Christian's believe that the Father/Son/Spirit are all the same person and that Creedal...
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    He didn't. Don't mix up a messenger and the Message (Christ). This is God's Truth, existing even before the Earth was formed. If a person want to know that, they should seek Him and ask Him.
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    Let's start with basic & super important stuff: The Father, the Son, and Spirit are three different divine persons. When Christ is baptized, it is the Father (a different person) saying from Heaven "this is my beloved Son"-- it's not Christ doing some ventriloquist act and flattering Himself...
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    'Reading' and then ignoring. PW: your salvation is not tied to me being a devil worshiper (which I am not). It's ok for you to listen and get your facts straight about what I believe. Your salvation isn't tied to the idea that I don't know Christ. Would you like to actually talk and listen...
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    What Mormons Believe--according to a Former BYU Professor

    Dudette then. Frankly: I (like every other person) don't like being ignored. I don't see anything eddying to be gained here.