Abstract

Salvation: from Pelagius to Joseph Smith Every Christian church believes that she is a true church and proclaims that man can be saved and has eternal life. This dogma of salvation is usually based on the Bible as the Word of God. Mormons claim that Joseph Smith, founder and first president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, received a divine message to restore the church that Jesus had started. In studying the plan of salvation the Mormons proclaim it is quite clear that that way of salvation was not restored in their church, but that it followed a pattern of false doctrine that was revealed time and again in history. The core of their preaching of salvation is that man has the free will to choose his own salvation. Mormons are not the first to preach this message. This article will show that Pelagius oisty-kated the free will of man. In the Reformation the Anabaptists preached the same message, being a third movement next to the reformed and Roman Catholic believes. The Anabaptists became part of the churches of the Netherlands and at the Synod of Dordt the theology of the free will was rejected and answered. The dogma of the free will of man did not end at this Synod: 150 years later John Wesley preached the same message of salvation during his and Whitefield’s campaigns at the dawn of the nineteenth century in the USA. During this time Joseph Smith started to seek the true church and founded the Mormon Church. Although his theology differs quite strongly from the Methodist Church in which he grew up, the core of the way of salvation is the same: man has free will in choosing his salvation.

Highlights

  • In studying the plan of salvation the Mormons proclaim it is quite clear that that way of salvation was not restored in their church, but that it followed a pattern of false doctrine that was revealed time and again in history

  • The dogma of the free will of man did not end at this Synod: 150 years later John Wesley preached the same message of salvation during his and Whitefield’s campaigns at the dawn of the nineteenth century in the USA. During this time Joseph Smith started to seek the true church and founded the Mormon Church. His theology differs quite strongly from the Methodist Church in which he grew up, the core of the way of salvation is the same: man has free will in choosing his salvation

  • Die artikels behels kortliks die volgende: 1. Die doop: Die doop word aan diegene bedien wat bekering ondergaan het en ’n nuwe lewe lei; wat werklik glo dat hulle sonde deur Jesus Christus weggeneem is en wat uit sy opstanding leef

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Inleiding

Elke godsdiensbeweging se teologie het ’n ontwikkelingsgeskiedenis. Om die verlossingsteologie van Joseph Smith, stigter van die Kerk van Jesus Christus van die Heiliges van die Laaste Dae (Mormone) reg te verstaan, moet gekyk word na die godsdienstige agtergrond en die ontwikkeling van die dogma van sy verlossingsleer.

Pelagius
Hervorming
Die hervormers
Ulrich Zwingli
Samevattend
Die Anabaptiste
Ontstaan
Belydenis
Die breek van die brood
Herders in die kerk
Die swaardmag
Remonstrante
Dordrecht en die Metodisme
Die godsdienstige agtergrond van die godsdiensbewegings in Amerika
Mormonisme: teologiese agtergrond
Mormoonse teologie
Artikel 1
Artikel 3
Geloof
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