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The '''Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,''' informally known as the '''LDS Church''' or the '''Mormons, ''' was founded by [[Joseph Smith]] in 1830. It migrated from New York to Illinois to Utah where they have many members there and worldwide. The Mormons perform enormous amounts of missionary activity. | The '''Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,''' informally known as the '''LDS Church''' or the '''Mormons, ''' was founded by [[Joseph Smith]] in 1830. It migrated from New York to Illinois to Utah where they have many members there and worldwide. The Mormons perform enormous amounts of missionary activity. | ||
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| + | The Mormons, like other small denominations, have been the target of discrimination. Mormons are depicted as "bad guys" in Arthur Conan Doyle's novel, ''The Sign of Four,'' and Zane Grey's ''Riders of the Purple Sage.'' | ||
==Mormons' relationship to Christianity== | ==Mormons' relationship to Christianity== | ||
Revision as of 19:59, January 19, 2007
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or the Mormons, was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830. It migrated from New York to Illinois to Utah where they have many members there and worldwide. The Mormons perform enormous amounts of missionary activity.
The Mormons, like other small denominations, have been the target of discrimination. Mormons are depicted as "bad guys" in Arthur Conan Doyle's novel, The Sign of Four, and Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage.
Mormons' relationship to Christianity
Mormons are somewhat out of the mainstream of U. S. Christian denominations, because they accept the Book of Mormon as well as the New Testament. The Book of Mormon includes what Mormons regard as divine revelations made to Joseph Smith.
Nevertheless, Mormons emphatically consider themselves to be Christians.
The LDS website says "We believe in the Jesus of the New Testament, and we believe what the New Testament teaches about Him. We do believe things about Jesus that other Christians do not believe, but that is because we know, through revelation, things about Jesus that others do not know."[1]
- ↑ Is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a Christian church? As answered on the LDS Church's website