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We believe that Jesus’ teachings and His own matchless and perfect life provide a pattern for men and women to live by and that we must emulate that pattern as best we can to find true happiness and fulfillment in this life.We maintain that the Church of Jesus Christ was established, as the Apostle Paul later wrote, for the perfection and unity of the saints (Ephesians 4:11–14). We believe Jesus selected leaders, invested them with authority and organized a church.We believe Jesus taught His gospel - the glad tidings or good news that salvation had come to earth through Him - in order that people might more clearly understand both their relationship to God the Father and their responsibility to each other.We believe the New Testament accounts of healings and nature miracles and the cleansing of human souls to be authentic and real. We believe Jesus performed miracles, including granting sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, life to some who had died and forgiveness to those steeped in sin.While He walked the dusty roads of Palestine as a man, He possessed the powers of a God and ministered as one having authority, including power over the elements and even power over life and death.

We believe Jesus is the Son of God the Father and as such inherited powers of godhood and divinity from His Father, including immortality, the capacity to live forever.

We believe that Jesus was fully human in that He was subject to sickness, to pain and to temptation. From His mother, Mary, Jesus inherited mortality, the capacity to feel the frustrations and ills of this world, including the capacity to die.

We believe that He was born of a virgin, Mary, in Bethlehem of Judea in what has come to be known as the meridian of time, the central point in salvation history.

While we do not believe the Bible to be inerrant, complete or the final word of God, we accept the essential details of the Gospels and more particularly the divine witness of those men who walked and talked with Him or were mentored by His chosen apostles. For us the Jesus of history is indeed the Christ of faith.

We believe the accounts of Jesus’ life and ministry recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the New Testament to be historical and truthful.

We believe that Jesus of Nazareth was and is the fulfillment of those prophecies. We accept the prophetic declarations in the Old Testament that refer directly and powerfully to the coming of the Messiah, the Savior of all humankind. We believe Jesus is the Son of God, the Only Begotten Son in the flesh (John 3:16).Latter-day Saints are Christians on the basis of our doctrine, our defined relationship to Christ, our patterns of worship and our way of life. Millet, former dean of religious education at Brigham Young University. The following excerpts are taken from an address to the Harvard Divinity School in March 2001 by Robert L.