Essays Tagged: "church of latter"

Religion and different Christian groups.

, the founders incorporated metaphysical beliefs and practices into their form of Christianity. The Church of Latter-day Saints has other prophets and figures not in the Bible as part of their core be ... ist as another prophet. If they are also considered Christian, what does this mean to all the other churches that think of Jesus as Son of God and part of the Divine Trinity?For as long as history exi ...

(2 pages) 88 1 4.4 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Mormons Move West

farm. When he was 15, he claimed that Jesus Christ appeared to him and told him not to join another church, but to be ready for a task. In 1827, Smith claimed that an angel named Moroni came to him an ... hich Smith latter translated into the "Book of Mormon". On April 6th, 1830 Joseph Smith founded the Church Of Latter-Day Saint, on the doctrines of the "Book of Mormon" and the Bible. Joseph Smith rem ...

(2 pages) 83 5 4.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

The Mormon Religion

religion was started by a man named Joseph Smith. Joseph's family had different beliefs about what Church was the correct one, and so one day he went into the forest to ask G-d which church he should ... should join. He then claims to have had a vision of G-d, telling him that he shouldn't join either Church. Three years later, Joseph was visited by an angel named Moroni, who told him about a record ...

(4 pages) 86 2 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Church of the latter day saints

y age nineteen. By age twenty-one 74 percent of LDS women and 49 percent of LDS men have marriedLDS Church members tend to be middle class in terms of education, occupation, and income.About one in fi ... ay Saints than among other religious groups.Why did they choose the name latter day saints?When the church was organized in 1830 it was called the "Church of Christ", it was also referred to as the "c ...

(1 pages) 14 0 3.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Mormonism

This Is Not The Place The proof of faith is a dilemma that church skeptics have wrestled with for thousands of years. From the times of mythological religion t ... In the essay, "This Is Not The Place," the author Hampton Sides examines the religious views of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, or better known as the Mormons. Sides does not interview missionaries i ... t rather interviews archeologists, both Mormon and non Mormon, who have been sent out by the Mormon church to prove what ten million members of the church hold to be true. This commission attempting t ...

(4 pages) 20 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith