Are the FLDS Mormons...?

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Are the FLDS Mormons...?

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On another thread I posted this:

So, Mormon's are Christians even though; they don't believe in the Christ of traditional Christianity; they believe God was once a man; that there are many many Gods with multiple wives; and that we can also become Gods over our own planets.

But, the FLDS aren't Mormon's even though they believe in exactly the same restoration of exactly the same Gospel by exactly the same Prophet with exactly the same scriptures as the LDS.


I thought I had it correct but gdemetz stated:

Of course, they are "Mormons" also, but they do not belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS.


I thought The Church had categorically stated that the FLDS aren't Mormon's?
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Re: Are the FLDS Mormons...?

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The LDS church gets to decide who can call themselves Mormon, but gets huffy when Christians try to say who can call themselves Christian.
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Re: Are the FLDS Mormons...?

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Drifting wrote:Are the FLDS Mormons...?

what do you mean by "Mormons"?
Because that would determine any answer....especially the answer you, no doubt, want to read.

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subgenius wrote:
Drifting wrote:Are the FLDS Mormons...?

what do you mean by "Mormons"?
Because that would determine any answer....especially the answer you, no doubt, want to read.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&saf ... 20&bih=965


Here let me help you again.

Are the FLDS Mormons?

[ ] Yes
[ ] No

Tick which one you think is correct...
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Re: Are the FLDS Mormons...?

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Drifting wrote:
Here let me help you again.

Are the FLDS Mormons?

[ ] Yes
[ ] No

Tick which one you think is correct...


It's a classic dodge. Certainly many people can be referring to a particular church including the FLDS who are Mormons. Mormons are those who believe in Joesph as well as the Book of Mormon.
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President Newsroom helps us where subgenius can't...

When referring to people or organizations that practice polygamy, the terms "Mormons," "Mormon fundamentalist," "Mormon dissidents," etc. are incorrect. The Associated Press Stylebook notes: "The term Mormon is not properly applied to the other ... churches that resulted from the split after [Joseph] Smith's death."


http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/style-guide

So, According to LDS Mormon's you are not Mormon if you follow a Church that isn't the Latter Day Saint Church. Okay, got it.

Hmmm...

Perhaps the Christian Churches should put a style guide of their own out.

The term Christian is not properly applied to the other...churches that resulted from the split after [Jesus] Christ's death.
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This also from President Newsroom:

When referring to Church members, the term "Latter-day Saints" is preferred, though "Mormons" is acceptable.


It seems the Church PR and Marketing Department didn't get the memo in time to stop their ''I'm a Latter Day Saint'' TV Campaign from being given the less preferable nickname for members of the Church...
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Re: Are the FLDS Mormons...?

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Drifting wrote:Perhaps the Christian Churches should put a style guide of their own out.


well guess what, slick? they do:
Baptist
http://www.abc-usa.org/WhoWeAre/Identit ... fault.aspx
http://www.sbts.edu/media/publications/ ... ummer2.pdf
http://www.sbc.net/aboutus/psautonomy.asp
Methodist
http://www.umc.org/site/c.lwL4KnN1LtH/b ... _Roots.htm
http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=2&mid=3558
http://www.umc.org/site/c.lwL4KnN1LtH/b ... ishops.htm
Presbyterian
http://store.pcusa.org/27390001
http://www.pcusa.org/resource/list/manu ... -policies/
Episcopal
http://episcopalchurch.org/page/public-affairs

....just a few examples


zzzzzz....huh?...i seriously think someone may have hijacked Drift's account...cause he usually "thinks it through", at least a little
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Re: Are the FLDS Mormons...?

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subgenius wrote:
Drifting wrote:Perhaps the Christian Churches should put a style guide of their own out.


well guess what, slick? they do:
Baptist
http://www.abc-usa.org/WhoWeAre/Identit ... fault.aspx
http://www.sbts.edu/media/publications/ ... ummer2.pdf
http://www.sbc.net/aboutus/psautonomy.asp
Methodist
http://www.umc.org/site/c.lwL4KnN1LtH/b ... _Roots.htm
http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=2&mid=3558
http://www.umc.org/site/c.lwL4KnN1LtH/b ... ishops.htm
Presbyterian
http://store.pcusa.org/27390001
http://www.pcusa.org/resource/list/manu ... -policies/
Episcopal
http://episcopalchurch.org/page/public-affairs

....just a few examples


zzzzzz....huh?...i seriously think someone may have hijacked Drift's account...cause he usually "thinks it through", at least a little


What's funny is that you went to all the time and trouble of finding all those links and posting them :lol:
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Re: Are the FLDS Mormons...?

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Drifting wrote:Come on subby, tick the box...

Are the FLDS Mormons?

[ ] Yes
[ ] No

Tick which one you think is correct...



Bumpety bumpety bump bump bump...
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”
Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric

"One, two, three...let's go shopping!"
Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
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