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==''Gospel Topics'': "Latter-day Saints Do Not Accept the Creeds of Post–New Testament Christianity"==
[http://www.lds.org/topics/christians?lang=eng "Are Mormons Christian?,"] ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org:
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Latter-day Saints Do Not Accept the Creeds of Post–New Testament Christianity.<br>
Scholars have long acknowledged that the view of God held by the earliest Christians changed dramatically over the course of centuries. Early Christian views of God were more personal, more anthropomorphic, and less abstract than those that emerged later from the creeds written over the next several hundred years. The key ideological shift that began in the second century A.D., after the loss of apostolic authority, resulted from a conceptual merger of Christian doctrine with Greek philosophy.<ref>[http://www.lds.org/topics/christians?lang=eng "Are Mormons Christian?,"] ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org</ref>
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