Latter-Day Saints: The Latter Day Saint Movement

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In the discussion of the Latter-Day Saints; Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint Movement. Founded by Joseph Smith in upstate New York in the 1820s. By 1830, the Book Of Mormon was published. Years down the road on June 27th, 1844 marked an important day for the Mormonism religion. The day Smith was attacked and killed by a mob, he was currently the mayor of a small town called Nauvoo in Illinois and was preparing to run for the President of the United States. Sources report that Joseph Smith had a little bit of a criminal history. It was claimed that he had been jailed at least 42 times. The ‘Nauvoo Expositor” had the first and only report that revealed Smith was practicing Polygamy and planned to be a theocratic king. Upon …show more content…
God the father has a body (flesh and bones). The Mormons also hold that Jesus Christ overcame physical death and guaranteed physical death to all mankind. The Morminst culture says that there is temporary punishment for those have committed the worst sins, Jesus Christ shall create a new kingdom that will contain three levels: the celestial kingdom, the terrestrial kingdom, and the telestial kingdom. Mormons also use two references for beliefs and practices. Those references being the Book of Mormon and The Bible. On the contrary, the Christian Church just uses the bible as the authority. Nation represented by the Mormonism religion today includes; the United States(1830), Canada (1830), the United Kingdom (1837), Australia(1840), Georgia(1999), Laos (2006), Dominica (2006), and Kosovo (2011).
Facts about Mormons;
Some Mormons prefer to be called “Latter-Day Saints” but are okay with being called Mormons.
Most Mormons never really liked polygamy. Although mormons greatly appreciated what their hero did for them, many did the “Plural Marriage” that was established by Joseph Smith in the 1830s, that was then abandoned in the late 1900s.
Mormons teach to women that they will give birth forever and ever to “spirit babies”.
Mormons believe that Lucifer and Jesus were

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