Maybe you as a Southern Baptist see the Mormons as a cult, but I as a Southern Baptist do not! Don't drag the rest of us down with you. While there are some in the SBC who label Mormons as a cult, the official position of the SBC is that the LDS is merely not orthodox Christianity.
OTOH I did find this Mormon PDF at the NAMB website, which clearly defines Mormons as a cult. But you might want to keep in mind they also list Independent Baptist Churches as cults also. It seems everything is a cult to missionaries.
You should study the Mormons. Most people here at FR don't have a clue what they believe.
I am as about as clueless as you can get about what Mormons believe. But I do know that they are not strapping bombs onto themselves to do us in, and if they aren't out to harm me, I will repay them with the same courtesy.
The official position you cite is reasonable. As a "Mormon," I consider myself a Christian, but certainly not an orthodox or traditional one.
>the official position of the SBC is that the LDS is merely not orthodox Christianity.<
That is the definition of a cult as it is used in Christianity.
What some here don't get is that the SBC isn't our Pope.
They dissed Freemasonry in the early '90s.
They've had to back off of that one big time.
Bumping your post...