Someone asked:
There are so many different names of churches:
The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS
The Church of Christ
The Church of the First Born, and The Church of the Lamb
What is the difference?
Answer:
There are only two churches, the Church of God and the church of the devil. However, where your membership lies can only be judged by God who can observe your heart spiritually.
The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS is a physical representation of the organization of Christ’s spiritual church. Aka the Church of the lamb, and/or the Church of Christ or the Church of God.
Those three are synonymous and one is a member when they have received a testimony of Christ and can hear and harken to the voice of God directly.
If you can hear the voice of God you are in the Church of The Lamb, or the Church of Christ or the Church of God. If you cannot then you are not.
A person could be a member of the church of Jesus Christ of LDS yet not truly be a member of the Church of the Lamb or Christ or God because it is something that can only happen in the spirit and heart. You cannot join a physical church that will make you part of God’s church. That can only happen within you.
The Church of the Firstborn is also the Church of Christ, the Lamb and of God, but it is the spiritual organization of those who have inherited all that God has, and are joint heirs with Christ as if they all were “First born” as Christ, and as was the custom in the ancient times when only the Firstborn inherited all that their Father has, so now they come to the place spiritually where they have inherited all that God the Father/Mother offers spiritually. All that can be offered is theirs. They are equal in blessings and opportunity. Although they may differ in ability and learning or intelligence.
Then there is the 144,000 who are members of the church of the Firstborn AND have a special and specific calling… They are ordained by the angels as high priests and priestesses and they have united in purpose to bring all who will come to The Church of the Firstborn, and are all united and equal in inheritance and in purpose (although their methods may not always appear to be united) they all serve God and witness of Christ as they seek to unite the family of God within Christ’s fold.
Scriptural references:
1 Nephi 14
10 And he said unto me: Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth.
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12 And it came to pass that I beheld the church of the Lamb of God, and its numbers were few, because of the wickedness and abominations of the whore who sat upon many waters; nevertheless, I beheld that the church of the Lamb, who were the saints of God, were also upon all the face of the earth; and their dominions upon the face of the earth were small, because of the wickedness of the great whore whom I saw.
The Church of God is the same as the Church of Christ.
Mosiah 18
17 And they were called the church of God, or the church of Christ, from that time forward. And it came to pass that whosoever was baptized by the power and authority of God was added to his church.
Those converted to Christ were part of the Church of Christ
3 Nephi 28
23 And it came to pass that thus they did go forth among all the people of Nephi, and did preach the gospel of Christ unto all people upon the face of the land; and they were converted unto the Lord, and were united unto the church of Christ, and thus the people of that generation were blessed, according to the word of Jesus.
Same
3 Nephi 26
21 And they who were baptized in the name of Jesus were called the church of Christ.
If you can hear the voice of the Lord, then you belong to his church, if not, then you do not.
Mosiah 26
21 And he that will hear my voice shall be my sheep; and him shall ye receive into the church, and him will I also receive.
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28 Therefore I say unto you, that he that will not hear my voice, the same shall ye not receive into my church, for him I will not receive at the last dady.