That’s right. They now want to be considered Christian not “Christians”.
One term is objectified and exclusionary to anyone who is not a member.
The other is?
“That’s right. They now want to be considered Christian not “Christians”.
One term is objectified and exclusionary to anyone who is not a member.
The other is?”
Clearly, the Mormons are not Christians because they reject the tenets of the Nicene Creed that is normative for Christians.
But they wish to be called Christian because they want to be accepted in mainstream society and because it is a form of deception that their missionaries can use to insinuate themselves with the unsaved and the unknowing.
The boys on the tenspeeds have found it easier to deceive potential recruits if they can call themselves ‘Christian’ and then confuse the differences between Mormonism and, say, Methodism.