Latter Day Saints are always being confused with Fundamintalist Latter Day Saints and I'm really tired of being falsely accused of my church practicing polygamy. The LDS only practiced polygamy for 61 yrs of the entire history of the Mormon church and that was in the 1800s. But as usual people will find anything little grain of dirt they can about something that they know little fact about and run with it. The FLDS are not part of the Mormon church....let me repeat that, the FLDS are not part of the Mormon church. A very twisted man who at one time was a member of the Mormon church decided that he wanted more then one wife for his perverse satisfaction and started his own religion. The LDS would never not ever support this man or his beliefs but because he uses part of the Mormon church's name people assume they are connected but that is a sad misconception. I honestly don't know why the Mormon church doesn't try to back that up more in the press....my only guess is the fact that they have been drug throught the mud so much throughout their history as a church that they are tired of trying to change peoples seemingly unchangable minds about the religion that they just want to be left alone and stay out of the lime light as much as possible. I don't blame them...it wasn't until i became a memeber of the LDS church that i sat down and actually studied the history of the church and it's many trials it went through to become what it is today. It still breaks my heart to read about the things that people did to the early LDS but no matter what they went through they never gave up and never doubted their beliefs and i truely admire them for that.

Thank You. Me TOO!!!

Maybe it's just us two. I love being L.D.S. (())

I'm in total agreement, seeing as how I'm a member of the Church too.

Hey Three and counting.

woo hoo...we got three members....go LDS

was raised but not currently active, but yes i am lds

Im not LDS but I know about the history of your church and the reason for the confusion about LDS and FLDS.

I am also a member of LDS and I live in texas and the FLDS is the topic of everything down here and I have been getting slammed with untruths and hateful comments in the last few weeks and I am with you 100 percent with being tired of the misunderstanding that people have about our religion.

I've studied about the Mormon religion, and how it began, and by whom, and their personal lives. I know that FLDS is very different in many things. I'm not Mormon. Some people just don't study into things before making remarks or believing something. They will, if it's important enough to them. Until then, we all have areas of mis- or poor information.

there has and always been people that have had there religion misunderstood some have been persicuted for there beliefs some continue to be persicuted. there are many families where someone has been disowned because they have decided that one religion is right for them while there family thinks it is wrong.
lots try to say they live a good christian life while at the same time they are intolerant of any other religion.

me i was raised lds but at the present time in my life i do not find that any religion gives me a sense of peace so i choose to go my own way and try to be a decent person.

I agree that many different religions have been misunderstood and been persecuted. The Bible teaches that we are to love our enemies and bless those who persecute us. Not everyone who calls themselves Christian is. The Bible says you will know them by their love, and by what their lives produce. Where is the love in disowning a relative, or being intolerant to people? Where is the love in callously killing innocents? As to the being intolerant of any other religion (not the person subscribing to it), Jesus said He is the ONLY way to God, and there is no other. He also said that He is God. I'll be happy to look up the scriptures, if you'd like. I love my sister. She isn't a Christian, and she is a homosexual. I hate her lifestyle, and it is contrary to Biblical teaching, but I love her. She knows my beliefs; I have explained to her why I disagree. So we don't need to go on and on about who is right or hate each other. I treat her with respect and I am tolerant of her....just not of her beliefs. There is a difference, but a lot of intolerance comes from the very people who claim Christianity is intolerant. It is! Jesus is! To accepting another religion, not to people. As a Christian, I know that God is exclusive. There is no other way but thru a RELATIONSHIP with Christ Jesus. Not thru any religion.

Been checking out the LDS thing lately. I went to a service today, a "Sacrament Meeting." I saw my nephew initiated into the Aaronic Priesthood. Very interesting. The people there were very warm and friendly and the Bishop gave me a copy of the Teachings of Joseph Smith.

I have read the tripple over the last few weeks (The Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price, and Doctrines and Covenants) and the assocated writings: intros, covenant of faith, etc.

We sung "Joseph Smith's First Prayer" (It's in my Gospel Principles book, which I've read, cover to cover), and "Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice." Very interesting.

I attended a Gospel Principles class and a Quorum meeting after the Sacrament Meeting. It was all very interesting. I like the doctrine of opposites, the passing of authority down the chain of command, the understanding (sort of) of God's salvation, the love shown, the atmosphere of service, the evidence of fruit of the spirit in the church, the heavenly Father (not teh Heavenly Father, get it), the fellowship, the good-heartedness, the family-home-evening concept and the charisma of the people in the church.

However, I DON'T agree with the doctrine. I don't believe in premortal life or that there was a Grand Council or in Celestial, terrestrial, and telestial heavens, in hymns praising mortal men, in marriage sealing and the standard works.

I've met with my local missionaries a couple of times. One's a nice guy, the other isn't so nice. I'm gonna meet them again. We're on for Saturday, but I'm gonna have to reschedule due to work commitments.

Mormons are nice people. I worked with a couple of Mormon officers during my time in the Army and they were both very dedicated to their families.

Polygamists? Yeah, the FLDS was and is. The other branch of the church ain't, but most people don't know squat about the Mormon church or their scriptures. Polygamy was part of the doctrines for some 60 years, but that part of it was rescinded. The Prophet had revelations that it wasn't the right way to go any more, and I agree.

Polygamy was tolerated in the Old Testament Times, but the book of Acts says that God permitted some things to go on in times of ignorance, but now that people know better, such things should not be done.

Gotta take wives where you find 'em in the midst of a stinking desert, I guess. It used to be harder to bear and keep children, I think. Today, I read that Joseph Smith had 11 kids but only four to six of them actually survived. I imagine it was quite rough in times past.

God Bless my LDS brothers and sisters. Sorry if you get offended when people go crazy about the Polygamy thing. It's mostly ignorance, I think.

Geo.

I have personally had good interactions with people from the LDS. I think the history of it is also very interesting. All of these things made me feel inclined to look favorably at the Church.

However just recently my friends son got married in the LDS church and they would not let him in. That is his only son, and my buddy is like the nicest guy in the world, anyone that meets him likes him. His wife decided to join the LDS after they were married for about 10 years. He tried to go along with it but just couldn't buy into it. So now he has missed the wedding for his only son.

Is it true that LDS'ers believe in "magic rocks"?

what do you meen by magic rocks???????

maybe a dumb question but...i know there are difference between the 2...besides polygamy are there any others?

i prefer hearing the people that actually know more than what i look up

i cant say what the differences are because i have not looked into the flds church in depth i do know a fair amount about the lds church though

I am not in the LDS but are you maybe talking about the story that Joseph Smith looked at stones in a bag to get the book of Mormon. (This is my simplified version of it please feel free to correct me) However I wouldn't call this believing in "magic rocks" I don't think it would be the first time someone claimed God had spoken to his people by putting his words on tablets of stone.