I have been reading up on Joseph Smith this week. I want to get a better idea on the different prophets of the church. I love history and want to learn as much as I can about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Being a new member and hearing people quote from different Prophets I get lost. I don’t know a thing about any of them. Never heard them speak haven’t as of yet read anything they spoke about.
What I am finding interesting is that from the beginning of this Church Joseph Smith always talked about God and Jesus, how then do people believe that we are not Christian? Don’t all Christian’s believe the same principles? I know that all of the churches I have ever been to preached about God and Jesus. That is what sets them apart from Jewish, Islam, Buddhism, and churches teaching along that set of beliefs.
Ok from what I know if a church believes in God the Father, Jesus the Christ, and the Holy Ghost they are called Christian. Those that leave out one or the other are different and not considered Christian. Am I wrong to have this belief?
I know I don’t know anything compared to some in this church but I do know that when I walked toward this path with an open heart and mind I knew it had to be true. I am a Christian and would not have taken this path if I thought for one minute that it was not a Christian Church as I do believe in God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost. I believe them to be three separate beings. And I believe that Jesus lived and died on the cross for our sins. I know that through Him all sin is washed away.
Something else that I have started to wonder about, is all these churches that spend so much time trying to make sure there members do not become Mormon. How is it Christian like, to preach on Sunday about how bad another church is? Matthew 7:1 “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” I know that my life is not perfect, but it seems wrong to me that there are whole religions built up on anti-Mormonism. I know that some people will wonder why I decided on the church I did. And question me on if I did the right thing. I know that I did the right thing for me, but it may or may not be your road. The choice and agency is always yours, why step on my toes for making choices with my own agency? I am trying to walk my path; like that poem by someone never could remember names. “But I, I took the path less traveled.” (Will change if someone knows who wrote that) I may be on a path that a lot of people would not walk. But I walk the path I feel it is right and judge no one for their path even when it differs from mine.
