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Understanding Mormonism

This book was written with the hope that it may serve as a resource for explaining Mormonism and the restored Gospel of Christ to individuals of various beliefs, in a manner that is both understandable and technically accurate. Simultaneously, it aims to assist Mormons in better comprehending their own doctrines and in countering the arguments of detractors who claim their beliefs are "unbiblical" and "non-Christian." Indeed, it is now possible—thanks to an influx of new information regarding the Primitive Church—to demonstrate that many Latter-day Saint doctrines, which contemporary "orthodoxy" dismisses as "non-Christian," were widely recognized and essential to early Christians. These doctrines include concepts such as the preexistence of the soul, the Three Degrees of Glory, a non-Trinitarian Godhead, the deification of man, eternal marriage, baptism for the dead, and the foundational structure of the Temple experience. These beliefs, previou...