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Mormons differ from other Christian denominations on a number of key issues:

Mormons differ from other Christian denominations on a number of key issues:

* They believe that God and Jesus Christ are separate and distinct yet glorified beings.

* They believe that God and Jesus Christ are separate and distinct yet glorified beings.

* They do not believe in the concept of "original sin", but instead that all people will be held accountable only for their ''own'' sins and transgressions.

* They do not believe in the concept of "original sin" but instead that all people will be held accountable only for their ''own'' sins and transgressions.

* They believe that works (e.g. faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by water, receipt of the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, and living a Christlike life) are required to ''qualify'' oneself for salvation but that salvation is only ultimately attained through the grace of God and the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ (as opposed to the belief in salvation through works, i.e. somehow acquiring ones own salvation independent of God or Jesus Christ, a belief ''not'' held by the LDS church).

* They believe that works (e.g. faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by water, receipt of the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, and living a Christlike life) are required to ''qualify'' oneself for salvation but that salvation is only ultimately attained through the grace of God and the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ (as opposed to the belief in salvation through works, i.e. somehow acquiring ones own salvation independent of God or Jesus Christ, a belief ''not'' held by the LDS church).

* They believe that God was once a mortal man, and that all individuals who have ever lived or who will yet live, including [[Jesus]] & [[Lucifer]], are the spirit children of God the Father.

* They believe that God was once a mortal man, and that all individuals who have ever lived or who will yet live, including [[Jesus]] & [[Lucifer]], are the spirit children of God the Father.

* They believe that all people have the ultimate potential, through the grace of God, of not only returning to His presence (salvation) but becoming like Him (exaltation; see Romans 8:16-17).

* They believe that all people have the ultimate potential, through the grace of God, of not only returning to His presence (salvation) but becoming like Him (exaltation; see Romans 8:16-17).

* They believe that Joseph Smith was visited by God and Jesus Christ when he was 15 years old, and was chosen to be the prophet through whom Christ's church was restored to the earth.

* They believe that Joseph Smith was visited by God and Jesus Christ when he was 15 years old and was chosen to be the prophet through whom Christ's church was restored to the earth.

* They believe that after His resurrection, Jesus Christ visited and ministered to believers who lived in the western hemisphere, and that the spiritual records of these people were collected and abridged by a prophet-historian named Mormon into a single work subsequently completed by his son Moroni and ultimately buried in a hill in upstate New York circa 421 A.D.

* They believe that after His resurrection, Jesus Christ visited and ministered to believers who lived in the western hemisphere, and that the spiritual records of these people were collected and abridged by a prophet-historian named Mormon into a single work subsequently completed by his son Moroni and ultimately buried in a hill in upstate New York circa 421 A.D.

* They believe that the angel Moroni, in his resurrected state, appeared to Joseph Smith when he was 17 years old and told him of this record which Joseph eventually retrieved, translated through the power of God, and published as ''The Book of Mormon'', later retitled, ''The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ''.

* They believe that the angel Moroni, in his resurrected state, appeared to Joseph Smith when he was 17 years old and told him of this record which Joseph eventually retrieved, translated through the power of God, and published as ''The Book of Mormon'', later retitled, ''The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ''.