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Mormonism: Lessons To Learning A New Religion

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Learning a new religion is not easy to take in, there’s many lessons that needs to be taken before conversion. It's important to have faith because faith encourages others to seek more knowledge into learning something new. There’s no such limit to stop gaining the understanding for any religions, after all, the sky's the limit. It may be difficult, but with time, you will be able to get to the right path. In addition, it doesn’t hurt to acknowledge Mormonism and Buddhism. In fact, Mormons have more of a strong support that relies on their own God whereas Buddhism is more of a philosophy. There’s a time when praying gave them answers that God’s are real. Compared to Buddhism, Mormonism is a much stable religion with an actual foundation that …show more content…

Buddhism on the other hand, is a type of a belief system, but Buddha do not want his people to believe in him but instead to find out the truth, not to mention that Mormons also want to find the truth if the Gospels is real. Mormons has a different way of practice than Christians and Catholics to follow Jesus Christ’s footsteps. Once you read the book of Mormon, the individual must pray to see if the bible is true. Soon as seekers see the truth, the Holy Ghost will confirmed that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God. Joseph Smith is the first person to see God in actual form; therefor he speaks in the name of God. Nonetheless, Buddhism is a based on a religion but it is more of a philosophy because Buddha is not God, “ he never claim to be”, (White) through his personal experience he was a man who taught the Enlightenment of wisdom and the understanding of knowledge. Not only, but both religion, lead a moral life of the principles of right and wrong behaviors. Altogether, Mormonism has a better knowledge than Buddhism that the majority of the world is based on …show more content…

Mormons practice by opening a prayer and closing a prayer for each lessons. They are a member of the LDS (Latter Day Saints) church, but they become a member of the church through Baptism where the individual will receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and the confirmation. Mormon’s main purpose is to understand Christ’s passion, death, and finally resurrection. Mormons goes on missions to spread the Gospel to save other lives, in order to do that, the individual must “ Love God and obey his commandments while creating a relationship with Jesus Christ” (Nikhilesh and Bansal). On the contrary, Buddhist practices the word of wisdom, also known as, the Noble Eightfold Path and the four Noble Truths. Acknowledging these truths is one step closer to end the suffering of one’s life; there as, this the first Noble truth. The second Noble truth is “caused by craving and aversion (White) meaning the more we want and crave, it creates a powerful energy that is call a physical suffering causing us to be reborn. Craving will continue to exist and the struggling to get what the individual want will cause them to suffer because the lack of happiness. The third Noble truth is Nirvana; a paradise or heaven. This Noble truth is saying suffering can be overcome with happiness and the less you want, the suffering will end. The last Noble truth

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