If accepting Christ as Lord and Saviour is all that’s required, then they are at least as much Christian as some tribesman who accepted Christ at a missionary outpost and then went back to his tribe to live out the remainder of his days having no further contact with Christians.
I believe in the power of the Gospel unto salvation, if one confesses the Lordship of Christ, confesses sin, and believes Salvation is by Christ and Christ alone, then they become Christian in spite of their other quirky beliefs.
The movement of the leadership of the Church, has been more to John 3:16 than away from it.
I believe in the Power of John 3:16 to save, no matter what cult you may find yourself in. In the Judeo Christian Code, Romney is bound by the 4th commandment: “Honor thy father and thy mother” For him not to honor their faith would be difficult.
How do you know if you are saved? It is by the fruit you shall know. As a demonination, there are more Mormons leading more upstanding lives than most other Christian demoninations that I know.
As for all the ecsoteric and mystical beliefs, I personally reject them.
Liberals love it when they provoke a religious squabble with conservatives. Do not fall for it. Be charitable as you are.
Good try; but MOST MORMONs will have had VAST exposure to TRUE Christianity, and have made an INFORMED choice to STAY within the boundaries of MORMONism.
HMMMmmm...
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
1 John 3:21-24
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.