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

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KEY WRITINGS

• The Bible, written originally in

• Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament)

• Greek (New
  Testament)

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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JEHOVAHS WITNESSES
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
WHO IS GOD?

• One-person God called Jehovah.
• No Trinity.
• Jesus is the first thing Jehovah created.

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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)

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ARMSTRONGISM
KEY WRITINGS
New groups often former WCG members who still
follow Armstrongs traditional teachings
produce

• The Philadelphia Trumpet magazine

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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.

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