Beliefs and Practices Overview
Latter-day Saints are distinguished especially by:
- Active proselytizing by full-time volunteer missionaries
- Belief in modern prophets, beginning with Joseph Smith, Jr., and continuing today with Gordon B. Hinckley
- Acceptance of the Bible, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and The Pearl of Great Price as works of scripture
- A dietary code called the Word of Wisdom, currently requiring abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea, and illegal drugs; caffeinated soft drinks are left to individual discretion.
- Belief in God the Father, the Son (Christ), and the Holy Ghost existing as three separate individual beings or personages
- Belief in a form of theosis called exaltation or eternal progression
- Formerly practicing polygamy (plural marriage)
- Wearing ceremonial temple garments under their daily clothes
- Performing baptisms for the dead, and other ordinances by proxy, in temples and doing attendant genealogical research.
Facts and Stats on Mormonism
- Founder
- Joseph Smith
- Date founded
- April 6, 1830
- Place founded
- Fayette, New York, USA
- Modern headquarters
- Salt Lake Ciy, Utah, USA
- Adherents
- 12.2 million worldwide, more than half outside the USA
- Sacred texts
- Christian Bible, The Book of Mormon, Doctrines & Covenants
- Leadership
- Bishops, First President, Quorom of the Twelve Apostles
- Places of worship
- Temple, church
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