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The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest attraction in the city's Temple Square.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the LDS Church or the Mormon Church, is the largest and best known denomination within the Latter Day Saint movement and views itself as the restoration of original Christianity (see Restorationism).

耶穌基督後期聖徒教會（The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints）,或稱稱作摩門教（Mormonism),是世界上一個著名基督教派的分支之一。在教會的觀點來看，教會的復興代表了最原始的基督教義的復興。

Members of the Church—known as Latter-day Saints or Mormons—regard Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the Savior, who overcame death, atoned for the sins of all humanity, and invites everyone to be redeemed through him. They believe that Jesus Christ appeared with God the Father to Joseph Smith, Jr. and called him to be a prophet and to organize the original church established by Jesus Christ on Earth through a restoration which included the return of priesthood authority and the calling of new Apostles. They also believe that Jesus Christ, as head of the Church, is actively leading them through ongoing revelation. They accept the Bible to be scripture, "as far as it is translated correctly", and use the King James Version of the Bible. In addition to the Bible, they accept additional writings such as the Book of Mormon as inspired scripture (see Standard Works), and do not consider the canon to be closed. Thus, they consider themselves Christians, but not part of the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions.

該教會中的教友被人們稱做「後期聖徒」（Latter-day Saints or LDS） 或者「摩門教徒」(Mormons)。教友們相信耶穌基督是上帝的兒子，人類的救主，為了幫助全人類贖罪,從死中復活,人們要通過他才能得到罪的赦免。 他們相信上帝和耶穌基督出現在斯密約瑟面前，並且召喚他為先知，去復興和組織耶酥基督上地上的教會，復興也包括了聖職權柄的回歸以及十二使徒的從新召喚。他們同時也相信耶穌基督是教會的首領，現在通過不斷啟示領導着眾教友。教會使用「翻譯正確」的聖經（詹姆斯親王版本）和摩門經為教會經典經文，因此，教會的教友認為自己是基督徒，但並非天主教，東正教和新教傳統意義上的基督徒。

The Church is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, and its current president is Gordon B. Hinckley. The Church reports a worldwide membership of 12,560,869 as of December 31, 2005, with 6.7 million members residing outside the United States. It is the fourth largest religious body in the United States. The Church membership report includes all baptized members, and also "children of record", i.e., unbaptized children of baptized members. Members living in the US and Canada constitute 47% of membership, Latin America 36%, and members in the rest of the world 17%. (See membership distribution and growth history). A Survey by the City College of New York in 2001 extrapolated that there were 2,787,000 self-identified LDS adults in the United States in 2001, an increase of 1.3% over their 1991 survey, making the LDS Church the 10th-largest religious body in their phone survey of over 50,000 households.

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耶穌基督後期聖徒教會

系列的一部分

主要經文

《聖經》(英王詹姆士欽定本) (斯密約瑟譯本／靈感本) 《摩爾門經》 《教義和聖約》 《無價珍珠》

歷屆總會會長

約瑟·斯密 · 楊百翰 約翰·泰來 · 伍惠福 舒朗卓 · 約瑟·斐亭·斯密 郭禧柏 · 戈登·興格萊

重要刊物

《教會史》·《完整教會史》 《證道錄》·《旌旗》 《千禧之星》·《利阿賀拿》 《進步時代》

主要信仰

上帝 · 耶穌基督 · 信仰 悔改 · 洗禮 · 聖靈的恩賜 信仰論文 · 大叛教時期 雅各的後代（以色列） · 聖殿

教會建築

聖殿廣場 · 鹽湖城聖殿 教會辦公樓 · 教會會議中心 鹽湖城大禮拜堂·各地聖殿 鹽湖城聚會堂

文化

教友代表大會 · 楊百翰大學 摩爾門大會堂唱詩班

衝突

摩爾門戰爭 · 猶他戰爭 納府軍團 · 摩爾門軍隊

教會總部設立在美國猶他州鹽湖城，現任教會主席是興格萊戈登（Gordon B. Hinckley）。根據教會成員的一份報告指出，到2005年12月31日為止，教會是美國本土第四大宗教，全世界的教會教友人數達到了12,560,869 人，這其中的670萬教友居住在美國以外的地區。這份報告包括了所有已受洗的教友，和一些「記錄在案」的兒童，即受洗教友還未受洗的子女。47%的教會成員居住在美國和加拿大，36%在拉丁美洲，另外17%的教會成員分居在世界各地。（參見成員分布和發展歷史）。紐約市學院在2001年的一份調查報告中作出指出，在美國，一共有2,787,000自認的教會成年教友，比1991年的調查報告的數據增長了1.3%，使之成為電話調查報告中50,000個家庭中的第十大宗教信仰。

History

主條目：History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints和History of the Latter Day Saint movement

Members believe their church to be the divine restoration of the church established by Jesus Christ in New Testament times. They believe that following the ascension of Jesus into heaven, He continued to direct His church through His Apostles, but that as men rejected them and began to kill them, the authentic Christian church, along with its authority and many of its teachings, began to disappear. This led ultimately to the Great Apostasy. The original teachings of Christ were thereafter corrupted by Hellenistic philosophy and false doctrines which led to the misinterpretation and misteaching of many scriptures. By the fourth century, the Priesthood — or the authority to act in the name of God — had been lost from the Earth completely, meaning that no man thereafter had valid authority from God to baptize, and perform other sacred ordinances. Under these circumstances the growth of the "true" church came to a halt, despite continued teachings about Christ in the world. Thus, in the Latter-day Saint view, a restoration was required to bring back the true Church of Jesus Christ.

歷史

教會的教友相信他們的教會是通過神聖的復興，而恢復耶穌基督在新約時代建立的教會。他們相信在耶酥升天以後，他通過十二使徒來指示教會，由於很多人拒絕使徒的領導並且殺害他們，而導致真正的基督教會的一些權柄和教導開始消失，最終產生了大叛教時期。由於希臘式哲學的原因，很多耶穌原來的教導和教義被破壞，從而導致許多經文被錯誤理解和教導。到了第四世紀的時候，聖職權柄已經完全從地球上消失，意味着在那以後，沒有人正當的權柄來幫別人受洗以及進行聖餐儀式。儘管這個世界上仍有關於耶穌基督教導，但是在這種失去聖職權柄的情況下，「真實」教會的成長便因此而停止了。因此在後期聖徒的觀點來看，真正的耶穌基督教會的回歸是要通過復興來實現的。