I have been staying out of this wikipedia becoming anti-mormon thread until I
understood the issue better.
I, like Sean, believe that the original version hit it pretty much on the head.
It sounds like what WE as "Mormons" believe in!
If this is a mistake in may part I suggest that someone point out where the
statement in wrong (generally speaking).
Richard Butt
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Tucson, AZ 85730
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----- Original Message ----
From: Sean M. Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2007 1:07:05 PM
Subject: [Ldsoss] Re: wikipedia becoming anti-mormon?
"Anti-mormon or not, it was disinformation about us and very POV
(point-of-view)."
I wouldn't call it disinformation or biased (which is what I assume you mean by
POV, though technically NPOV is a POV). At least as far as the Mormon section
went, it all looked like a good description of the Mormon position.
Goodness, looking through that history it seems it only got worse and worse. It
looked just fine before. What did you find so offensive? (Why would you try to
argue that we hold to the Nicene Creed?) I don't see the point and I find it,
frankly, a bit embarrassing, that it was done in the name of my religion.
The following sounded good to me:
*[[Mormons]], followers of the various churches of the [[Latter Day
Saint movement]], who believe in the unity in purpose of the Godhead
but that Jesus is a divine being distinct from, and created by, God the
Father, but similar in every other respect (thus roughly
[[Homoiousian]] rather than [[Anomoean]]). Thus, Jesus is literally
(spiritually) the Firstborn of the Father. Also in line with Arianism,
Mormons believe that the pre-incarnate Jesus (the Logos of John 1)
created the Earth under the direction of the Father. In fact, they go
further than most on this point, equating the pre-existent Jesus with
Jehovah, the God of the Old Testament (perhaps as a spokesman for the
Father, for whom they reserve the Old Testament title Elohim). Although
the LDS Church views the doctrinal schisms of the late Roman Empire as
a sure sign of the [[Great Apostasy]], they do not officially claim any
allegiance to Arius.
(original description from Wikipedia)
Sean M. Cox
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