Posted on 01/07/2012 7:23:38 PM PST by delacoert
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What is the conclusion? Let me bring it to three points. First, we should rejoice and be exceeding wary. For while during the first generation Mormonism was thought to be utterly outlandish, we may live to see the generation in which it will be thought to be utterly obvious. The attending attitude in each case is the same--indifference. Unless we can testify with spiritual splendor that God has restored more than a pastiche, a glorious divine unity, unless we can bear witness that there is power from God in all that we witness, others will simply say, "We already have it. There is no more. Goodbye."
We already have it. There is no more. Goodbye.
ping — maybe you can wade through this...
Mormonisn can’t stay unchanged for 1 generation, let alone 4!
no
Are Christians Mormon?
Posted on Sat Mar 06 2010 07:56:17 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) by delacoert
Answer: No, No, No.
"Remember that God, our heavenly Father, was perhaps once a child, a mortal like we ourselves, and rose step by step in the scale of progress, in the school of advancement; has moved forward and overcome, until He has arrived at the point were He is." - Mormon Journal of Discourses, v1, p123Anyone who believes that load of malarkey is not a Christian.
Sure. And Quakers are Islamists....
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That’s going to be one long read....
No.
They say they are.
“Mormonism can’t stay unchanged for 1 generation, let alone 4!”
Perhaps one of the risks the LDS church takes by having easy “revelations” is analogous to those risks inherent in a “living Constitution”.
Are Christians Mormon? NO.
Are Mormons Christian....Depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is...
But NO.
Pretty silly. The Boy Prophet said that God is a person, and many Christians now agree?
No, sorry, Christians believe that our God is a Triune God, one in Being, but consisting of three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
And “person” in that sense does not mean a human being. The Second Person of the Trinity has two Natures, God and Man, but that does not imply that a man ever can become God. Rather, God became Man, once and for all time.
Paul Tillich a Christian? A Harvard Faculty Christian. I say no more.
Mormonism is still and always will be a non-Christian cult.
The answer is “NO”.
I have no idea the author’s conclusion, but his rant was longer than one word, so I didn’t bother....
Are dogs cats?
Nope
Wow—so much rhetoric. I don’t think, however, Mormons have ever said that Jesus Christ always was, is, and always will be uncreated God, one in being with and eternally begotten of the Father, true God from true God, begotten not made. That is, Mormon’s don’t believe the Athanasian and Nicene Creeds.
Hence, the rhetoric. It appears Mormon theology rationalizes that at some point the Second Person of the Trinity’s (Jesus’) nature was less than God, that he was not ALWAYS eternal. The idea that Jesus’ evolved or developed into God is not a Christian belief, because it denies the Trinity as articulated in the Creeds.
Away from the theological, is this thread perhaps a back-handed attempt to smear Romney? Okay, so he’s a Mormon. What’s Obama?
I believe that the Mormon faith is a form of Christianity, but it would be pointless to say that Christianity is a form of the Mormon faith.
I would go so far as to venture the opinion that the Mormon faith has at least some authenticity, but perhaps that it developed that over time because of its resemblance to evangelical Christianity, and not because of the viability of its original “revelations.”
Surely, the Mormon faith fills an automatic need in the American cultural psychology, to have a faith that points to the New Jerusalem being on American soil, and to unite the original (native) and the pioneer societies under some kind of Christian banner. The Mormon faith as a cultural experiment has done those things in ways that standard evangelical Christianity either cannot do, or has not done.
If you visit Utah in particular, the concept that the New Jerusalem could be in the new world becomes very “real” because of the geography and its resemblance to Judea.
My belief is that Mormons and evangelical Christians each have some of the truth and will find that in the Kingdom, they can blend their forms of worship into one reality. I would extend that to faithful Catholics, Orthodox, even to liberal Christians who refrain from socialist politics and do good works as instructed in the gospels.
We are a complex and diverse family. It seems unlikely that God would reveal all truth to just one group out of dozens, with the implication of either hell or second-class heaven for all who failed (largely by chance) to join the “right” denomination. At the same time, I don’t reject the idea that there are dangerous cults and misguided prophets.
Whatever the truth of the Joseph Smith to Brigham Young evolution of the LDS, the modern form of that faith is an asset to America. I hope it’s also an asset to the Kingdom, but that’s not for us to say.
Are Christians Mormon?,
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No
And Mormons arent Christians...
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