Quote Originally Posted by Chuchip View Post
Your post doesn't make sense. Christianity didn't exist before the coming of Christ, so in that time Judaism was the true religion, and began with Adam, not Moses. Mormonism claims to be a restoration of true Christianity so your claim that it doesn't even try to have deeper roots is false.
I don't know what religion or none you belong to, but how do you think the saints of the Old Testament were saved? Did they observe the whole law so that they may be spotless before God? Or did they look forward to Christ as their saviour? King David was a Christian, he was born again.

You say Judaism began with Adam, but of course the whole ceremonial law was not given until the time of Moses and expanded long after that. For the Jews the observance of this law is necessary for righteousness... and yet as a Christian I can look back and say that the entire law has existed since the time of Adam, since it is a natural and not a positive law.

Mormons might claim to be a restoration of true Christianity but they are clearly wrong. They might have some intersting ideas which are tied to the Jewish roots of the early Christians, and it is true that much of modern Christianity is very biased by Hellenistic takes on the religion. But ultimately they say themselves that the Bible is not perfect, and that Joseph Smith's work completes it. And he brings in a whole number of strange of practices with no scriptural justification. Plus the Mormons never completed the Reformation and purged themselves of Catholic man-made traditions.

Quote Originally Posted by Chuchip View Post
Mormonism doesn't claim that morality comes from rituals. Also don't forget that babtism and the sacrament/communion come from the New Testament of the Bible.
There is no support whatsoever for water baptism or the so called 'holy communion' in the New Testament.