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Title: MORMONISM


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  • FOUNDER
  • Jesus Christ
  • DATE
  • Founded about AD 30-33
  • LOCATION
  • Judean province of Palestine (Israel today),
    under the Roman Empire

2
KEY WRITINGS
  • The Bible, written originally in
  • Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament)
  • Greek (New
    Testament)

3
MORMONISM
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • FOUNDER
  • Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844)
  • DATE
  • Founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
    Saints (LDS) in 1830 (Palmyra, New York)
  • LOCATION
  • Headquarters now in Salt Lake City, Utah

4
MORMONISM
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
KEY WRITINGS
  • The Book of Mormon
  • Doctrine and Covenants
  • Pearl of Great Price
  • The Bible (King James Version only or Smiths
    Inspired Version)
  • Authoritative teachings of Mormonisms prophets
    and other general authorities

5
JEHOVAHS WITNESSES
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
FOUNDERS
  • DATE
  • Began 1879 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • LOCATION
  • Headquarters in Brooklyn, New York
  • Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916)
  • later Joseph F. Rutherford (1869-1942)

6
JEHOVAHS WITNESSES
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
KEY WRITINGS
  • Include
  • Bible (New World Translation only)
  • You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth
  • Reasoning from the Scriptures
  • Watchtower magazine
  • Awake! magazine

7
JEHOVAHS WITNESSES
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
WHO IS GOD?
  • One-person God called Jehovah.
  • No Trinity.
  • Jesus is the first thing Jehovah created.

Bible
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ARMSTRONGISM
  • FOUNDER
  • Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986)
  • DATE
  • Founded the Radio Church of God in 1934 later
    became Worldwide Church of God (WCG)
  • LOCATION
  • Eugene, Oregon (later Pasadena, California)

9
ARMSTRONGISM
KEY WRITINGS
New groups often former WCG members who still
follow Armstrongs traditional teachings
produce
  • The Philadelphia Trumpet magazine

10
UNIFICATION CHURCH
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
FOUNDER
  • DATE
  • Founded 1954 in Seoul, South Korea
  • Previous name Holy Spirit Association for the
    Unification of World Christianity
  • LOCATION
  • Current headquarters in New York City
  • Sun Myung Moon (b. 1920)

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UNIFICATION CHURCH
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
KEY WRITINGS
  • Include
  • Divine Principle by Sun Myung Moon
  • Considered the Completed Testament
  • Outline of the Principle Level 4
  • The Bible
  • not the truth itself, but a textbook teaching
    the truth.

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UNIFICATION CHURCH
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
WHO IS GOD?
  • According to Moon, God is both positive and
    negative.
  • He created the universe out of himself the
    universe is Gods body.
  • He does not know the future.
  • He is suffering.
  • He needs man (Sun Myung Moon) to make Him happy.
  • No Trinity.

Bible
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