How do Mormons answer ‘not Christian’ claims?

Washington Post ^ | October 12, 2011 | Michael Otterson

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I had been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints for just a few days when I encountered my first experience of anti-Mormon prejudice.

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“But you’re not Christian and you don’t believe in forgiveness.” It was not a question, but a declaration, delivered with a finality reminiscent of a judge’s gavel rendering verdict on a hapless miscreant.

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Mormons do not pretend that their understanding of Christ is identical to that of Christian orthodoxy. We embrace the New Testament and much of what the modern Christian world teaches about the Savior of the world, but we do not stop there. We have a lot more to add about the Son of God, and it is that additional revelation that causes the real rub with some orthodox Christians. To us, however, refusing to accept further enlightenment on the mission of Jesus Christ is like a math teacher telling his or her students they must stop at multiplication tables. No algebra or calculus allowed.

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For those who want to accelerate that process of understanding, our churches are open to all every Sunday. Use the website to find the nearest chapel to you, and feel free to drop by. If you try to track the number of references to Jesus Christ in the service, you may lose count. So just observe the families, listen to the prayers, leaf through the hymn book to see if any of the hymns seem familiar, and make up your own mind as to how Christian our people are. Jesus taught us: “By their fruits, ye shall know them.”

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If a Christian is a believer in, and a follower of Jesus Christ, the Latter-day Saints fully qualify.

Just because you slap the name of Jesus on it doesn't make it Christian anymore than putting a BMW logo makes it a BMW

Your prophets are on record stating that the mormon Jesus is not the same Jesus recognized by Christianity. Mormonism throughout most of its history has vehimently denied being Christian, and consider anyone BUT mormons part of the church of the devil.

Perhaps one day when mormonism repudiates polytheism, progression to godhood, tosses out it add-on scriptures, relies on the cross and not the garden for its atonement - just to name a few, then perhaps the discussion can begin to come to whether mormonism has become Christian or not.