In THAT case, if Christians say that mormons are NOT Christian, who are you to argue?
Christ WILL judge, but in the meantime, it's up to Christians to rebuke the lie that is being spread far and wide by mormons who spent over a century disrespecting and castigating Christianity and claiming to have the "one, true and "restored" church and priesthood.
The FReepers who are quick to jump on the "mormons can be called Christian if they want to be" are silent when the mormon church disavows the splinter groups like the FLDS whose doctrine remains much closer to Joseph Smith's "one true restored church" and refuses to allow them under the "mormon umbrella."
NZ is heavily mormon and has been for decades. Perhaps that influences some opinions.
> NZ is heavily mormon and has been for decades. Perhaps that influences some opinions.
Not mine.
> In THAT case, if Christians say that mormons are NOT Christian, who are you to argue?
A Christian who says they are, because they say they are.
If they say they are Christians, then they will be judged by that standard. And we as Christians are foolish indeed to judge them. And they would be foolish indeed to want to be judged by the Christian standard if they aren’t Christian.
Judgment is not easier for the Christian, it is harder.
NZ is heavily mormon and has been for decades. Perhaps that influences some opinions.
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Several decades ago, I knew some girls in NZ that liked to go to the mormon ward house because the missionaries from America were cute and the “church” was lenient and didnt expect much from them ...
I went to a couple of youth evenings with them...
The girls were liked to grab the missionary boys and kiss them (and other stuff) because they werent suppose to...
I felt sorry for the poor mishies until I realized that the boys would place themselves right in the line of fire...
So much for living righteous lives etc...
Of course the girls and boys were unmarried...
But why all the hoopla about how so called “clean living” they are when they obviously are not when the opportunity presents itself...
And then there is the matter of excusing that obsene billboard...
Shades of the Utah style of “righteousness”...