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Mormonism is a religion originating in the early 1800s. Mormonism is an unofficial name used to refer to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (... called Mormon Church). Mormonism refers to the doctrines taught by Joseph Smith and the succeeding prophets and leaders of the Church, but those doctrines are believed to be eternal and part of the original gospel preached by Jesus Christ.
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Mormonism... known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a religion with membership of 12,275,822 as of December 31, 2004, with 6.7 million residing outside the United States. Their headquarters are stationed in Utah, where roughly 65% of the state are Latter-day Saints (hereafter "LDS"). In a plethora of ways, Mormonism deviates from Biblical, historic Christian beliefs.
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Historically, Mormonism has had an uneasy relationship with traditional Christianity such as the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, and most branches of Protestantism. This is primarily due to the fact that adherents to Mormonism claim that the movement is a "restoration" of the earliest Christian and Judaic doctrines. Mormons teach that the "gospel" has existed since the days of Adam and Eve, and that throughout history a series of "apostasies" have occurred always followed by a "restoration". Mormons teach that one such apostasy occurred after the death of Saint Peter and the other original twelve apostles, and that the calling of Joseph Smith, Jr. marked a new restoration continued to this day. The publication of the Book of Mormon in 1830 in Palmyra, New York, aroused great animosity among Protestants. Mormons believe that the Book of Mormon is holy scripture comparable with the Bible.
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Mormonism has its roots in the early 1800's in the person of one man, Joseph Smith (1805-1844). Joseph Smith claimed he had a vision in 1820 in which God the Father and the Son appeared to him. He was told the churches of that time "were all wrong" and "all their creeds were an abomination."
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The birth of Mormonism centered on one man, Joseph Smith, Jr. (1806-1844) a farmer from the region of western New York known as the "burned-over district" because of its unrelenting religious enthusiasm. It was launched in 1830 with the publication of the Book of Mormon, the sacred text which became the foundation for new religion. As Smith told the story, seven years earlier the angel Moroni had appeared before him and told him of a book written on gold plates and buried in a hill outside Manchester, New York. Then, on September 22, 1827, after other visitations from Moroni the plates were turned over to Smith. Over the next twenty-four months, Smith and a few trusted associates, using special, ancient, "seer" stones, "translated" the Egyptian hieroglyphics of the plates into English. When they had finished this arduous task, Smith reported, as arranged, he delivered the plates back to the angel.
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Mormonism began in the context of nineteenth-century American evangelicalism. However, Mormonism soon acquired features so distinctive that few outsiders regarded it as Christian. These features include new Scriptures, the practice of polygamy, the belief that humans have the potential to become gods, and an array of ceremonies not part of Christian churches. Mormonism began when Joseph Smith (1805-1844) claimed to discover tablets of gold buried in a hillside in Palmyra, New York; the translations of these tablets were published as the Book of Mormon in 1830. Smith claimed to restore Christianity to its ancient practices. But "gentiles" or non-Mormons objected to Mormon belief and practice.
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