The theology of the mormonism is the doctrines of the Église of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of the Last Days. She is resulting from the Holy Scriptures and the modern Révélation.

The modern revelation

The mormonism is founded on the modern revelation. It would be the result of series of demonstrations of celestial characters with Joseph Smith (1805-1844): God the Father and his Son Jesus-Christ, Jean the Baptist, the Pierre apostles, Jacques and Jean, the prophets Brace, Élias and Élie, and others. Joseph Smith, the first president of the Church of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of the Last Days, as its successors are regarded as modern Prophète S having been chosen by God to transmit with authority his word and its will, as in biblical times. Moreover, each individual can have the company and the direction of the Holy Spirit to guide it in his personal life. When in 1842 one asked Joseph Smith which were the beliefs of the saints of the last days, he wrote what one now knows under the name of Articlees of faith. Even if the Articlees of faith are only one summary of the beliefs of the saints of the last days, they represent the doctrinal base of the Church of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of the Last Days.

Holy Scriptures

One of the aspects of the Mormon doctrines which distinguish the saints from the last days of the other Christian confessions is the belief in additional Holy Scriptures in the Bible, as the Book of Mormon. In the beginning, Mormon is the name of a place where was a source and a thicket, in ancient America. Later in the Book of Mormon, it is a prophet who bears this name, that which gathered annals of its predecessors and made a summary of it. It is this summary which is called the Book of Mormon and who reports the religious life of two ages of old America. It is in reference to this book that the “Mormon” terms and “mormonism are drawn”. Scriptures others that the Bible and the Book of Mormon are Doctrine and Alliances and the Perle of Grand Prix, which makes in all four canonical works. Doctrines and Alliances and some passages of the Pearl of Grand Prix are of composition modern. The other writings are of old composition.

Apostasy and Re-establishment

Another characteristic of Mormon theology is the belief in a total Apostasie between the first century after Jesus-Christ and 1820, date of the first vision of Joseph Smith. This apostasy, or loss of the original doctrines and the divine authority, would have caused a total re-establishment through Joseph Smith.

Priesthood, priesthood, religious orders

The divine authority, or priesthood (priesthood, orders), divinement being divinement restored, it is accessible to all the saints from the last male days which of it are worthy. Thus, the Mormons do not have professional clergy, but a laic clergy which potentially includes all the male members of the Church. They can be ordered deacons as from 12 years, instructors as from 14 years, priests as from 16 years and old as from 18 years. All the missionaries full-time, generally called for one 24 months period, received the office of old. The other offices of the priesthood are those of large priest, bishop, patriarch, seventy and apostle. The president of the Church is the senior of the apostles, i.e. that which is oldest in the apostolate. He and its advisers forms the college of the First Presidency. This authority is more the high ranking authority of the Church. The following authority, the second in authority, is the college of the twelve apostles. The following one is the whole of the colleges of the seventy. The men who form the first two colleges of the seventy, the college of the Twelve and the First Presidency have the title of general Authorities of the Church. The members of the other colleges of the seventy are interregional Autorités. The ministry for the interregional Authorities, like general Authorities of the second college of the seventy, lasts a few years. That of the general Authorities of the first college of the seventy continues to the neighborhoods of their 70 years. The ministry of general Authority of the Twelve and the members of the First Presidency lasts until their death. With died of the president of the Church, his advisers find their place among the apostles, according to the chronological order of their call to the college of the Twelve. The senior of the apostles is then ordered president of the Church and it chooses its advisers among the other apostles. To supplement the college of the Twelve, a new apostle is chosen, generally among the seventy. The Mormons claim that Pierre, Jacques and Jean formed the First Presidency of the Church of the time of the first apostles, with Pierre as president. It happened that the president of the Church is surrounded of more than two advisers.

The family, a celestial model

Another aspect, and probably the top of the Mormon doctrines is that final safety is a business of family. All those and all those which will reach life eternal, which consists in living with and like God in more the high degree of the celestial Gloire, which is also called the Exaltation and which is safety more raised, will have received beforehand the sacrament of the Mariage eternal. Thus the holy couples of the last days are married or “sealed” for eternity and that the children “are sealed” with their parents. Admittedly, the divorces exist at the Mormons, because those which have the authority to seal or to bind have also the authority to loosen or untie (reference to the authority received by the Pierre apostle on behalf of Jesus), but the rate of divorces among Mormons is significantly less low than in the remainder of the company. Moreover, the sealing of united between them and the generations between them does not stop with the alive ones, but each one of them can be sealed with his/her died parents, represented by the alive ones. In their turn, these grandparents can be sealed in the same way with their parents, and so on. Thus the sacraments accessible to died the as with alive, deaths being alive in spirit and enjoying the capacity to accept or refuse the sacraments celebrated in their favor. Among these sacraments the baptism appears. Each Mormon with the responsibility to identify his ancestors in order to make celebrate for them the whole of the sacraments, of which baptism and the marriage eternal, that they did not receive from their alive. These sacraments, also called ordinances of the priesthood, are celebrated in high places called temples and which are more than simple churches. To compare: the Mormon temples are the equivalent of the temple of Jerusalem for the Jews. It is only inside these crowned buildings that are celebrated the sacraments of the sealing of the alive couple between them and with their children and of the baptism and sealing of their ancestors. The baptisms of alive are not celebrated in the temples. For indication: There does not exist yet of temple in France. The French Mormons go in the temples of the periphery: Bern, London, Madrid, Frankfurt or $the Hague. At the end of 2006 there existed 124 temples on the whole of the sphere. Thus, the Mormons believe that the family life, which is the greatest source of happiness ici-bas, can remain in eternity thanks to the ordinances of the priesthood celebrated in the temples devoted to this use by the authority restored on the head of the prophet Joseph Smith. Moreover, several Mormon traditions related to the family reinforce this one. Among these traditions: the family Evening. The family Evening, which takes place each Monday evening, is held with the hearth by each family and brings together the parents and the children to sing, request, discuss and be diverted together. This tradition remains since it was founded in 1915.

The préterrestre existence and drank it life

Another aspect of the theology of the Church of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of the Last Days is the belief, not only in beyond, but also in-on this side or prémortelle Vie, in the presence of God. The immortal part of the man, his spirit, would have been born celestial parents before incarnating ici-bas. For the saints of the last days, the creation of each man and each woman was spiritual before being physical. Thus each human being had already an identity before the creation of the world. According to this theology, after having lived near his celestial Father, the man is sent on the ground to make the experiment of mortality, essential experiment to acquire the attributes of the divinity. Ici-bas, it on the occasion, while living by the faith and either by the sight, to spiritually become adult, if one regards his prémortelle life as a childhood passed near his parents. The life of the man becomes a school then where it is sent, where it receives a physical body with which it makes the experiment of the life and where it learns how to apply celestial laws in a mortal environment, which prepares it to turn over to live in the presence of God, to inherit the kingdom of heaven and to control in his turn to inhabited spheres, like his celestial Father.

Jesus-Christ

The central point of Mormon theology is Jesus-Christ: its birth, its life, its expiatory sacrifice and its resurrection. Creation allowed the Fall which required the Expiation. The expiatory sacrifice of Jesus-Christ is the most important event of the history of humanity. Because it carried out a perfect life, Christ was qualified to offer her life in ransom for the sins of humanity. The expiatory sacrifice allows the faith to Christ and in her safety. The faith, as for it, causes the repentance. The repentance prepares with the baptism by immersion for the remission of the sins. The water baptism, in its turn, prepares with the “baptism of fire” or gift of the Holy Spirit by laying on of hands. The company of the Holy Spirit, finally, allows to persevere until the end, which is the last judgment. Without the expiatory sacrifice of Christ, not of hello. Humanity would remain eternally under the effect of the Fall. Only the expiatory sacrifice of Christ makes it possible to hope for and receive safety. As for the eternal life, more the high degree of the hello in celestial glory, it is largest of all the gifts of God. Will receive those which will have persevered until the end while living according to the Gospel of Jesus-Christ. It is by the merits of Christ that they will receive it, but only after all that they will have been able to do to remain faithful. Although the dedication of the man will be never sufficient, it is however necessary. It is only then that, since it is not sufficient, the mercy of Christ (her grace, her merits) roof the lack. Admittedly, the man does not make a sound all the time to better live according to the Gospel, but if it are repent, the grace of Christ acts. By the grace of Christ, the hope of the hello can accompany the life by faithful, while waiting for their safety in the kingdom of heaven. This hope is a gift of God. This gift is conveyed by the Holy Spirit, also called Consolateur. The Holy Spirit is an at the same time sanctifying and revealing agent. In Mormon theology, Jesus-Christ is at the same time the Creator, the Redeemer and the Judge. It is Yahweh/Jéhovah of the Old Testament. He is the Only son of the Father in the flesh, i.e. the only one which was born from an immortal Father and a mother mortal. In the Holy Scriptures, he is sometimes called upon, however he taught to request the Father on his behalf. The prayers which he itself addressed testify to a real relation Father-Wire.

Beyond and safety

In Mormon theology, resurrection will be universal. It is a gift of God to all the men thanks to the sacrifice and to the resurrection of Jesus-Christ. The Degrees of glory other than celestial glory, and lower than it, are terrestrial glory and glory téleste, the téleste being the least. No sacrament is necessary to inherit one or other these two glories. On the other hand, the baptism is necessary to inherit celestial glory, and all the sacraments celebrated in the temple are necessary to inherit the more high degree of glory in this kingdom (the Exaltation or eternal life) and to enjoy with any eternity the family life with its expensive beings. Between death and resurrection, the spirit of the man waits in a place called the Monde of the spirits. This place comprises two distinct parts or separate states. The sacrament of the baptism is necessary to be received in the part of the world of the spirits called paradise. The other part of the world of the spirits, called prison or darkness, is populated people of which much waits to enter the paradise as soon as the sacrament of the baptism was celebrated in their favor in the temples. The Gospel of Jesus-Christ is preached in the world of the spirits since Christ in person went there between her death and its resurrection and organized the preaching of the Gospel there, thus opening a way between the two parts of the world of the spirits, separation being insuperable hitherto. Since, emissary chosen, whose former prophets and apostles, pass freely from the paradise to the prison to preach the Gospel of Jesus-Christ there. Each heart on the occasion thus, of sound living or in beyond, to hear and accept the message of the hello. One calls “hell” the state of the most malicious spirits, those which will be the last with ressusciter. Concerning the marriage eternal, it will be too late, with resurrection, to take woman or husband. It is before resurrection that the interested parties must be married for eternity, either of their alive, or by procuration. One period called “millenium” will allow all those which wish it to receive the sacraments that they will not have received from their alive. According to Mormon theology, the fact that Adam and Eve were blessed by God (see Genèse 1:22,28) represents a Mariage eternal. As a God (in more the high degree of the hello its involved), the man is not without the woman nor the woman without the man (see 1 Corinthians 11:11).

Seven dispensations

According to Mormon theology, there was, since the creation of the world, seven periods called “dispensations”, each one being inaugurated by the ministry of a prophet. Thus, in the chronological order, there were the dispensation of Adam, that of Énoch, that of Noah, that of Abraham, that of Brace, that of the twelve apostles and that of Joseph Smith. All ended in a apostasy, except the last which will last until the second arrival of Christ that it is supposed to prepare.

Joseph Smith

The dispensation of Joseph Smith started in 1820, when it accepted, at 14 years, its first celestial demonstration in which God the Father and his Son Jesus-Christ appeared to him. A strong opposition appeared as soon as it announced this experiment and persecutions continued it all its life until its martyrdom at 38 years, when it was lynched by a crowd of rioters to the grimé face come to assassinate it in the prison where it was retained on false charges.

The Book of Mormon

According to the theology of the Church of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of the Last Days, a tangible proof of the divinity of the ministry of Joseph Smith is the Livre of Mormon, whom he claimed to have translated by the capacity of God. This collection of Holy Scriptures, resulting from America précolombienne, would have, like the Bible, a capacity of conviction making it possible to the sincere reader to know that its message is true. Another characteristic of the Book of Mormon is to end in the promise made to the reader whom if he requests to know if the work is veracious, he will receive the confirmation by the capacity of the Holy Spirit. The Church claims that million people, who put this promise to the test, testifies to the veracity of the book, the prophetic call of Joseph Smith and the divinity of the Church of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of the Last Days. It is to be used as witness of the divinity of the ministry of Joseph Smith that the Book of Mormon would have been revealed only at the time modern. He also represents, for the saints of the last days, a spiritual food which helps them to live faithful to their engagements. The intellectual evidence of the authenticity of the Book of Mormon would not miss, but the Church made there abstraction in favor of the testimony of the Holy Spirit. The evidence would be used to reinforce the faith, but would not replace spiritual testimony.

Definition of the Mormon doctrines

In the Church of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of the Last Days, the doctrines are fixed by the gun of the Writings and the declarations of the First Presidency, with which the college with the Twelve is sometimes associated. All that does not emanate from these two sources does not constitute what it is advisable to call the official position of the Church. In addition, the Church, as an institution, does not discuss necessarily all the points of doctrines. For it, there exists a nuance between the knowledge which, lived, leads to the hello, and that which, purely intellectual, does not change anything with the spiritual statute nor with the future hello of that which has it. In this second category are included of many questions of doctrines which are potentially the object of speculation. These questions not having a direct link with the mission of the Church which is to bring hearts to Christ by the work of preaching of the Gospel, improvement of the saints and repurchase of late, they are not the subject necessarily of a standpoint on behalf of the Church.

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