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I'm not trying to stir the pot, but when I read the mention of cult I had to check it out. It is listed on
www.cultwatch.com and this is what they state about the religion:
Taken from this link:
http://www.cultwatch.com/mormon.html
What they will tell you:
Mormons are Christians. (Mormons want very much to be recognised as a normal Christian denomination.)
What they won't tell you: actually, I recall a recent interview with a Mormon, and they said all of this.
They believe that God is just an exalted man.
Is that so far removed from people believing that Jesus, once a man, is God?
They believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers.
Don't most preachers preach a similar belief that good and evil exists in all of us, and that Satan often wears a shiny robe?
They believe we can become gods ourselves.
Maybe this idea directs people into the thought that we can all live a pure path, and are much stronger than we may think we are. If they taught that people are all low life scum, that wouldn't give people much to ambition to do right.
They believe that Mormon women are to be pregnant for eternity populating their own planets.
This is an interesting one, but in the church in which I was raised, it doesn't stray too far from the concept that sexual intercourse should be for procreation only, and any feelings of lust are wrong. (...and we wonder why are kids are screwed up when it comes to sex) If you look at this idea from a purely scientific statistical point, it doesn't seem to weird. If we stopped procreating, the human population would die off very quickly.
Absolutely no archeological evidence for the Book of Mormon has been discovered (except for the part that was copied straight from the King James Bible).
Over 4000 changes have been made to the Book of Mormon since it was first published - a far cry from what Smith called "The most correct book on earth."
I'm just curious if this is true or if they are blowing certain small, isolated, or one time issues up into something bigger?
Do the Mormons claim that the Book of Mormon was discovered, or recently written? I have no idea.
We have no idea how many changes have been made to the Bible, so as long as we are comparing the two, lets keep a little balance.
As for CCK's comment that during the times of Jesus walking on Earth, Christianity could also be viewed as a cult, I agree. I see that we (people in general) tend to think of any unfamiliar religion as a Cult. We may not feel comfortable saying so, and the thought may be subtle, but I believe the thought is there. We want to believe that "our" religion is the "right" religion.