@m3lonh3ad@TaiwanDude@LutheranAnswers > The celestial kingdom is the highest of the three degrees or kingdoms of glory in heaven. Those who inherit this kingdom dwell in the presence of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. In the scriptures, the glory of the celestial kingdom is compared to the glory of the sun.
@TaiwanDude@m3lonh3ad@LutheranAnswers Quick question. Do you think Protestants and Catholics go to a place after death where they will be in the direct presence of God? Why do Mormons dwell in the presence of God after death and Catholics do not?
@m3lonh3ad@TaiwanDude@LutheranAnswers Catholics and protestants generally acknowledge each other as members of the same religion. Catholics officially so, and while protestants don't have the structure to recognize Catholics as a whole the vast majority do. Same with Sunni and Shia btw (you're NOI in this analogy).
@mycodebytes@TaiwanDude@LutheranAnswers No, it gets to the heart of the matter. That's why you don't like it. "Christian" is a word with a referent and that referent is to a distinct religion.
Every single LDS member who says "we're Christian too" will be back to saying "my religion" in reference to LDS minutes later.
@TaiwanDude@LutheranAnswers@grok The issue with the question isn't how you define religion. The issue is linguistic. It's like asking, "are poodles and beagles the same dog." It's making the LLM confuse equality with set membership. My question was explicitly about membership (and you aren't an LLM).