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I worked with a mormon for several years. Decent guy. Just basically very reserved. Seemed to have lived a very sheltered life. Made up for it when he got married. Married a woman we worked with. She was a former stripper. And grade A skank stripper at that, with all the habits that come with it. Still scratch my head over that one.

Original question was about beliefs, not character or work ethic. Sorry for the confusion?

There is baptism by proxy of dead relatives, it's the reason Mormons are into genealogy.

Hi Bob.

Paul, Mormon! I thought you said moron!!!

I know they believe you can save dead non-Mormon relatives by post humous conversion.

It’s one of the reasons they pioneered DNA tracing. If you have a Mormon friend some of them will even let you use their church databases for free.

Sooo, he was a genius?

Hey denton--there are several bridges in Brooklyn, which one are you selling? Maybe one of the Mormon fellers here can tell me the name of the "battle" where a whole group of people formed a an Army to wipe out the Mormons. They went to where the Mormons were, winter set in and they were starving and freezing to death. The Mormons came out and saved them, go figure!

Mormons also have a type of hierarchy within their ranks that most seem to take fairly serious. It can be very awkward for them professionally because they could be a subordinate at their place of work but the superior for purposes of the church.

In my experience it causes a lot of weird schit to take place.

Joseph Smith was an occultist. The religion's roots had nothing to do with Christianity. His wife would take down his scrying experiences. He used seeing stones as scrying surfaces. It was demonic.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Joseph_Smith.html?id=Mz3tpz4eRBQC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrying

I’ve known a few, good folks. I would rather have them for neighbors than most. Their beliefs are their business.

Do Mormons worship Christ as the sole source of salvation through grace?

Each person is their own.. and responsible as such.

Love them where they are at.

Some of the best people I have met are Mormon, a few of the Crazy ones were as well.

The one thing I do not agree with - is hating someone that is trying to understand God and Spirituality (for real vs. for show).
If you hate a person who is searching out God…. Karma has a way of finding your backside and putting a foot up it hard…. Which is probably right.

A lot of people make good neighbors. Since the OP was about their spiritual beliefs then talking about what they believe spiritually is relevant.

If their profession requires specific uniform items that fall under the term underwear they ship them to the big temple in their home state and have them blessed.

Is Karma real and if so how?

Not real thrilled with any of my living extended family, no desire to find out anything about the dead ones.

Sounds like a dice roll.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/

Interesting. I did not know that. Sounds utilitarian.

From what I’ve read they believe that Christ was an example of what we are supposed to work to be. I’ve tried to nail it down in discussions but found side stepping when speaking to someone of the Mormon faith about justification. Nearest that I can tell is justification comes down to works in LDS teaching. That alone separates them from historic Christianity.

This religion and JW can be traced back to the area of New York called the burned over district and or the influences of Charles Finney. It’s interesting that most of modern religion in America is influenced by this man.