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WillowTheWhisp · 11-12-2007, 22:16

The short answer is - yes.

The official name is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shortened often to LDS but we get the nickname Mormon. That is actually the name of a man. He is the one who compiled what we know as The Book of Mormon (hence the name of it) from other historical records.

For a while the church tried to distance itself from the name in order to emphasise that we worship Jesus Christ not Mormon but in the past couple of years our President has said it has led to some confusion with people thinking there are two separate organisations so he kind of re-adopted the nickname.

These other groups such as the FLDS also have the Book of Mormon as scripture. There are several such splinter groups but not all are as controversial. None of them have any affiliation with the official LDS church which has headquarters based in Salt Lake City.

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WillowTheWhisp Resident Waffler Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Accrington, Hyndburn Posts: 18,142 Blog Entries: 14 Liked: 14 times Rep Power: 1062	Re: jeremy kyle show 2 part christian love The short answer is - yes. The official name is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shortened often to LDS but we get the nickname Mormon. That is actually the name of a man. He is the one who compiled what we know as The Book of Mormon (hence the name of it) from other historical records. For a while the church tried to distance itself from the name in order to emphasise that we worship Jesus Christ not Mormon but in the past couple of years our President has said it has led to some confusion with people thinking there are two separate organisations so he kind of re-adopted the nickname. These other groups such as the FLDS also have the Book of Mormon as scripture. There are several such splinter groups but not all are as controversial. None of them have any affiliation with the official LDS church which has headquarters based in Salt Lake City. __________________