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* 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.

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* 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]] and [[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 [[Book of Romans|Romans]] 8:16-17).

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