Interesting. Thank you for expanding on this, Chap. The LDS Church does reference the Trinity, however:
LDS.org wrote:4. States the person’s full name and says, “Having been commissioned of Jesus Christ, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen” (D&C 20:73).
Also, do Baptists count in this segment of accepted baptisms?
But they do not have the same understanding of the Trinity.
Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Unitarians do not use this formula and/or have different understandings of the Trinity than other Christians, so Catholicism does not recognize their baptisms since they do not have the same intention
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
cinepro wrote:The current LDS teaching on this is very ecumenical, along the lines of any good Christian church is part of the Church of the Lamb of God. Obviously, in the past we had more specific ideas about this.
Even today I know people who very specifically think the Catholic Church is the "Church of the Devil".
Stephen Robinson has a good article about it here:
...at least that is what the Book of Mormon teaches us.
1. The Church of the Lamb of God. 2. The Church of the devil.
You are either in one or the other. So, my question.
Is Christianity (not the Mormon bit) in category 1 or 2?
2. It's not that any particular church is the church of the Devil (if I had to pin it on one, it would be the pre-Catholic apostate church), it's that their doctrines or lack thereof are the teachings of that church. Political organizations fit here as well, Democrats for example, or any others that might match the description of Gadianton robbers.
If it's in 2 why do Mormon's want to be Christian?
Because we are the modern descendents of the original Christian Church.
If it's in 1 Mormonism cannot be the only one true Church.
That is correct. While there are truths in other churches, their doctrine, if one settles on it, does not result in eternal life.
Bc, which category does the modern Catholic Church fit into - 1 or 2?
“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
bcspace wrote:All nonLDS churches are part of the church of the Devil. None of them are THE church of the Devil.
So Christianity is part of the Church of the Devil?
“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
bcspace wrote:All nonLDS churches are part of the church of the Devil. None of them are THE church of the Devil.
Sigworthy, at least for a while ...
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.