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The Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter day Saints
What is the Mormon Church?
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Joseph Smith
• Founder of The Church of Jesus Christ and The latter day saints (the Mormon Church)
• Born in 1805 • Lived in Palmyra, NY• Loose catholic background
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Smith the Prophet
• In the Spring of 1820 Smith, walking in the woods, had a vision from God
• In that vision Smith saw two bright glorious images, god and Jesus. God personally introduced smith to his ‘beloved son’
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Smith struggles to reach God, and finds Moroni
• In 1827 Smith again experienced divine revelation in the form of the messenger angel, Moroni
• Each September for four years Smith was visited and taught about God and Jesus by the Angel Moroni
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The tablets
• After four years, Moroni gave Smith two golden tablets with text written in ‘reformed Hebrew’
• Smith translated the tablets, and gave them back to Moroni when he was finished
• Smith’s translation is the book of Mormon
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The Book of Mormon depicts..
• 600 bc. Nephi, a Jewish prophet, has visions of the future church and the birth of Christ
• Nephi is told by God to sail his family to ‘a Promise land”
• The promise land is America, the book of Mormon is about Jesus in America
• http://youtu.be/Jfc77nkm4Dw
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Smith expands church, young takes over
• Smith expanded the church, one new member was Brigham Young
• Brigham Young, an agnostic man from upstate NY encountered the book of Mormon and was convinced CJLDS was the true church.
• When Smith is killed, Young becomes the president of the church
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Death of Smith
• Mormons face a lot of prosecution due to political and religious differences with there neighbors in NY
• They traveled around the country looking for refuge
• Smith created Nauvoo, a Mormon community in Missouri, but still faced prosecution
• Smith and his brother were murdered by an angry mob of non supporters in June 1844 at Nauvoo
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Young goes out west
• The US was unwelcoming, Young decided to take the Church to Mexican territory
• Brigham Young and 1600 LDS went to west• They settled by the salt Lake, In what is now
Utah• The Mormon temple was built in Salt Lake City
in 1892
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Structure Of Mormon church
• The president is a modern day prophet• President and 2 councillors form the first
presidency-Major and ultimate decision makers for church
• Twelve apostle beneath them form the quorem of the twelve-assisting and minor decision makers
Thomas Monson is the current prophet
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Smaller scale structure
• The seventies- eight groups of seventy people around the world assisting the apostles
• Wards are local places of worship• Wards are run by bishops, who are ordinary
members of the church. • Gender roles in church structure: Only men
can be apostles, prophets, church leaders, and bishops.
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LDS community projects, and gender roles in community
• Relief society: a charitable organization helping the poor, ran exclusively by women
• Sunday School, where children learn from an early age about the church, taught by older members of their community
• Boys and Girls clubs. Older children are taught about their roles in the church and at home.
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Progressive Mormonism!
– In the past• Mormons practiced polygamy• Mormons thought black people are the
descendants of Cain – Now
• Only fundamentalists believe these thingsMore Progress now: Mormons are beginning to accept gay rights!
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Jesus
• Jesus is savior• Christ is only path to God• Resurrection allowed people to have eternal
life• Saved man from death, and sin
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Baptism and the Holy ghost
• Represents LDS respect and gratitude to Jesus for suffering for their sins
• Must be baptized to exit the spirit prison or paradise and enter into heaven after death
• The holy ghost is received after baptism• Holy ghost helps people see truth, make
decisions, keep faith, and find comfort.
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Gods Plan
• Before birth, people lived in spirit form with God as his spirit children
• God sent his children (everyone on earth to experience having a physical body, and the emotions that come with it)
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Adam and Eve
• The fall from Eden allowed them to have emotions
• Gave them ability to have children• All of Adam and Eve’s children are God’s spirit
children • LDS believe we all descend from Adam and Eve,
and are all Gods spirit children• As Gods spirit children, he will reward us in our
lives to come
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The Spirit World
When we die, we go to the spirit worldYou either go straight to spirit paradise if you have been baptized, or to spirit prison f you have notA living person must get baptized in your place if you have not been baptized to get into spirit paradiseThis is why Mormons ‘Baptize the dead”
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The Plan of salvation
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3 layers of heaven
• Celestial kingdom: live with God and Jesus, get to have your own spirit children, and give them a world
• Terrestrial Kingdom: Don’t live with God, but Jesus visits. Must live without spirit family, and be alone
• Telestial Kingdom: must live alone without God or Jesus, only Angels visit