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Mormonism. Is it Christian or is it an occult? There's over 17 million Mormons globally as of 2023. Over 68,000 missionaries as of 2022. 173 temples and 24,000 missionaries as of 2022,

173 temples and 24,277 churches as of 2022.

If you live anywhere in the United States

and different parts of the world,

you probably have come in contact with people

who are dressed really nice, very polite, and they're

good people who preach, I believe, a teaching that is not Christian teaching.

Now, the history of a Mormon church is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, L.D.S.

believes that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri near Independence. Around 600 BC, an

Israelite name Lehi traveled with his family to the Americas and his descendants formed two tribes,

the Nefertites and the Lamaninites. Over time, the tribes fought each other. But in 33 AD,

after Jesus' resurrection, Jesus Christ appeared to

Americas and preached to the Nefertites leading the 200 years of peace before this conflict

between those two tribes resumed. And then by 385 AD, prophet named Mormon wrote the story

of his people on golden plates.

After a major battle, Mormon's son, Moroni, added to the writings and sealed these plates in 421 AD.

These writings became known as the Book of Mormon.

Now we forward to 1820, Joseph Smith has a vision

and he claims that God the Father and Jesus Christ

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