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Mormonism describes itself as falling within world Christianity, but as a distinct restored dispensation, through which it characterises itself as the only true form of the Christian religion to be in existence since the time of the Great Apostasy.

According to Mormons, a Great Apostasy began in Christianity not long after the ascension of Jesus Christ ,.

This Apostasy involved the corruption of the pure, original Christian doctrine with Greek and other philosophies, and followers dividing into different ideological groups.