Mormon Christ different than Traditional Christ

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Mormon Christ different than Traditional Christ

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Re: Mormon Christ different than Traditional Christ

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No, it's not the traditional Christ. But who says the "traditional" Christ is the right one? Per Mormonism, Joseph Smith's whole purpose was to correct errors that had infiltrated the original Christianity.
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slskipper wrote:No, it's not the traditional Christ. But who says the "traditional" Christ is the right one? Per Mormonism, Joseph Smith's whole purpose was to correct errors that had infiltrated the original Christianity.


Yet Joseph Smith taught complete error and added this to Mormonism
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Re: Mormon Christ different than Traditional Christ

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Mittens wrote:
slskipper wrote:No, it's not the traditional Christ. But who says the "traditional" Christ is the right one? Per Mormonism, Joseph Smith's whole purpose was to correct errors that had infiltrated the original Christianity.

Yet Joseph Smith taught complete error and added this to Mormonism

Mittens,
Hmm, this could be important, is there any reason somebody reading this should think you are right?
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Re: Mormon Christ different than Traditional Christ

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The Scriptorial evidence should convince
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Re: Mormon Christ different than Traditional Christ

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Mittens wrote:The Scriptorial evidence should convince

But it doesn't. What's next?
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Re: Mormon Christ different than Traditional Christ

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Maksutov wrote:
Mittens wrote:The Scriptorial evidence should convince

But it doesn't. What's next?

It does for me
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Re: Mormon Christ different than Traditional Christ

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Mittens wrote: It does for me

I gather from this tread that Mormons interpret the scripture a bit differently than Mittens.

And so it is.
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Re: Mormon Christ different than Traditional Christ

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“Traditional” simply means the ongoing belief or practice of a group. For instance, it’s traditional to have Turkey for Thanksgiving in the USA, but traditional to have Turkey on Christmas Day in the UK. Does that mean the USA Turkey is different than Traditional Turkey?

Traditional Christ can mean different things to different groups, but those differing groups can each claim their Christ is the Traditional one. In other words, your OP is meaningless. Now if you’d opened with “Mormon Traditional Christ is different to Protestant Traditional Christ” then perhaps you’d have the start of a discussion...
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Re: Mormon Christ different than Traditional Christ

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I have a question wrote:“Traditional” simply means the ongoing belief or practice of a group. For instance, it’s traditional to have Turkey for Thanksgiving in the USA, but traditional to have Turkey on Christmas Day in the UK. Does that mean the USA Turkey is different than Traditional Turkey?

Traditional Christ can mean different things to different groups, but those differing groups can each claim their Christ is the Traditional one. In other words, your OP is meaningless. Now if you’d opened with “Mormon Traditional Christ is different to Protestant Traditional Christ” then perhaps you’d have the start of a discussion...


Traditional, Orthodox or mainline Christianity means what 100% of Christianity teaches. Not false heresy teachings represented by the Mormon Faith
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