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LDS: God was once a man who attained the station of godhood (King Follett Sermon [or KFD]).
Christian: God has always been God (Psalm. 90:2).
All Christians believe God was once a man. You usually refer to him as Jesus Christ.
You are side stepping the issue. Do you, or do you not believe that a Christian like me believes in a different kind of God than you do?
LDS God starts as a man and advances to Godhood.
Xtian God is always God, comes to earth as a man while remaining God.
I think you're misunderstanding the difference between Salvation and Exaltation.
I know in LDS teaching that there are different levels of Salvation. But isn't the "Fullnes of Salvation" defined as Exaltation in the Celestial Kingdom, and Exaltation being Godhood and eternal progression as well as procreation?
Most Christians don't believe revelation is even possible these days. God has said everything he's going to say.
You are right, most Christians do think that, but without any Biblical basis as far as I'm concerned. The NT says not to despise prophesies but to test everything. I personally would gladly accept new revelation, but none has yet passed the test that I know of.
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The LDS faith starts with a negative declaration: "All other churches are false, the Gospel must be restored." The Christian faith starts with the positive declaration: "The scriptures prophesied the Messiah, He has come and He has risen." Both statements are taken on faith, but which is more sound?
The Mormons believe that "positive declaration" also, so I don't get your point.
I am not saying that LDS do not also believe in the Resurrection. The point is that before you can accept the LDS faith as legitimate you must believe that all other christian faiths are false (similar to Islam where it is also taught that the Christians and Jews corupted the Bible, so the Koran was needed). Otherwise there is no need for a Restoration, Book of Mormon, a Prophet or any LDS Church.
After the negative, then comes the positive assertions (which we tend to agree on). Christianity didn't start with "Judaism is false," just "He is risen." See the difference?
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With the Christian faith you need only believe that God told us what He was going to do and did it. With LDS faith you have believe that the death of 12 good men, the laziness and corruption of others, and perhaps even the schemes of the Devil were enough to undo what God had done to the point where a whole new fresh start was needed. I don't have that kind of faith.
Depends on which Christian church you belong to. All of them have a different angle on what you have to believe and whether or not salvation entails things from simply signing a statement out of the back of a comic book to baptism and confirmation.
I'm not talking about "how do you get saved" formulas here. This goes back to the negative and positive starting points for the two different faiths. With the LDS faith you have to believe in a total Apostacy of the Church, occurring shortly after the deaths of the 12 (again, without which there is no need for the Mormon faith).