Oh, and this paragraph from the article is both dumb and dishonest.
It is dumb because it insists that we Mormon Christians adopt an either/or definition of Christian that almost no one else uses. Most people recognize that a wide variety of beliefs and practices are to be found in the "broader Christian community." Although we believe that ours is the most correct version of Christianity, we do not deny that others have a commitment to Jesus Christ and are therefore Christians. We are not as exclusive as the author would have us be.
It is dishonest because it asserts that we teach in private that all non-Mormons are not Christians. That is simply not true.
Now who is being dishonest
I have many members of my family who are Mormons. I have yet to find where any of my Mormon relatives did not get baptized on behave of those in my family who die that where not Mormons.
Why do they do this because they don't believe they are save unless they are in the Mormon church
Now who is being dishonest
I have many members of my family who are Mormons. I have yet to find where any of my Mormon relatives did not get baptized on behave of those in my family who die that where not Mormons.
Why do they do this because they don't believe they are save unless they are in the Mormon church
Ahhh but When I attended a Nazerine church I never heard them say ‘we are the only Christians everyone else is wrong. But Joseph smith did say that and in doing so excluded himself from having a broader community.
It is dishonest because it asserts that we teach in private that all non-Mormons are not Christians. That is simply not true.
17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself adelivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I bsaw two cPersonages, whose brightness and dglory defy all description, estanding above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My fBeloved gSon. Hear Him!18 My object in going to ainquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all awrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those bprofessors were all ccorrupt; that: “they ddraw near to me with their lips, but their ehearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the fcommandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the gpower thereof.”20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself alying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, bmother inquired what the matter was. I replied, “Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.” I then said to my mother, “I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.”
As every blasted advertisement on tv now is saying, the Mormon church is restoring the truth.
If you have the truth, by implication, everyone else does not.
If everyone else does not, they are not Christian. Only you are.