There are other important ways in which Mormon teaching does not match biblical teaching on Christ's atonement, but most significantly the Mormon Jesus teaches that membership in the LDS Church is
required for eternal life.
No Mormon temple works — whose signs, tokens and handshakes are actually Masonic — are
required for eternal life.
Of course, when we realize that baptism is NOT
required for eternal life, then this entire debate fades away into meaninglessness, but we already talked about this...
Not exact matches
A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter
life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels
eternal happiness unearned, yet
required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless
lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility
for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
While the death and resurrection of Jesus are central to the Gospel, believing in the resurrection of Jesus is not
required for a person to receive
eternal life from Jesus.
t its most fundamental level, Christianity
requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years
for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years
for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them
eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
So in this sense, it is unlikely that anyone will believe in Jesus
for eternal life without believing that Jesus is God, but once again, there is a difference between something being likely and something being
required.
It appears also as a nationalism in which man is taught to
live and die
for his own race or country as the ultimate worthful reality, and which
requires the promotion of national power and glory at the expense of other nations as well as of the individuals with their own direct relation to the
eternal.
To believe that «everyman is the brother
for whom Christ died»,
requires an identification with the neighbour which is deeper than any humanitarian sentiment,
for now the neighbour is seen as one who is created to share in communion with God and his fellows in
eternal life.
I have been a proponent of the radical free grace of God
for about fifteen years now, by which we get
eternal life as a completely free gift of God, with no strings attached, and no works
required on our part to gain, keep, or prove that we have
eternal life.
At its most fundamental level, Christianity
requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,700,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years
for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,700,000,000 years
for h.omo sapiens to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them
eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
At its most fundamental level, Catholicism
requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,700,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years
for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,700,000,000 years
for h.o.mo sapiens to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them
eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
At its most fundamental level, it
requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,700,000,000 years ago, sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years, waited
for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,700,000,000 years
for h.omo sapiens to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them
eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle east.
At its most fundamental level, Christianity
requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years
for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years
for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them
eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
At its irreducible minimum, Catholicism
requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years
for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years
for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them
eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
This is because the god of the Koran
requires men to DO something in exchange
for eternal life.
At its most fundamental level, Christianity
requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire observable Universe and its billions of galaxies about 13,720,000,000 years ago (the approximate age of the current iteration of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years
for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years
for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us
eternal life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine.