Is Mormonism a Christian Denomination?

Catholic Lane ^ | March 9, 2012 | Mary Kochan

[ducttape45]

Is Mormonism a Christian Denomination?

No, next question.

[Secret Agent Man]

No.

[Cicero]

Was Jesus a christian?.... or a Jew?..

Both.

[hosepipe]

[ Was Jesus a christian?.... or a Jew?.. / Both. ]

Maybe neither..

[CatherineofAragon]

Yes, the Mormon church is nothing short of sinister, and I didn’t know that a year ago. I got educated by reading FR.

[CatherineofAragon]

"This is why I have a hard time getting behind Romney and amongst other things. I would take him over Obama, he is an American!"

I hold out hope that Romney won't be the nominee, because as serious as the situation is, and as much as I want Obama out, I am not going to be able to cast a vote for Romney. Primarily because he's a liberal who loves abortion and homosexuals, but also because he's a truly loathsome human being.

[reaganaut]

Well He certainly wasn’t MORMON!

[reaganaut]

Yes, the Mormon church is nothing short of sinister, and I didn’t know that a year ago. I got educated by reading FR.

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Glad to hear it! That is our goal.

[jroneil]

No They are Polytheists
Orthodox Christianity is Trinitarian three person one God
Not three separate God and we can not become God and are no part of God we are creatures of God created beings.

[Paved Paradise]

This is not news, but I’m sure many people are clueless about what Mormons believe. Heck, many Christians don’t even know what their own church teaches (doctrinally), let alone what Mormons believe.

[Paved Paradise]

Not so. Jesus was a Jew. The Jews who believed that he was the promised Messiah remained Jews. When the Gentiles or pagans and all non-Jews came to believe that He was the promised Messiah and Lord, they became “followers of Christ.” Eventually, when the Temple was destroyed in AD 70, the religious “Jews” who did not accept Jesus essentially redefined the meaning of what it meant to be Jewish. In a nutshell, it was “We are NOT people who believe Jesus is the Messiah.”

The whole concept of Christian is a follower of Christ. Christ does not follow himself, so he is not a Christian.

[CatherineofAragon]

There’s no telling how many people are lurking out there and reading the truth about Mormonism. You do a service, truly.

[Elsie]

Is Mormonism a Christian Denomination?

No.

Why would they WANT to be?

MORMONism makes the claim that ONLY in itself is TRUE 'christianity' found.

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Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).

Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).

 

 

 

Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

 

 

 

Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).

 

 

 

Orson Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses

, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses , 18:172).

 

 

President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses , 10:127).

 

 

 

James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).

 

 

 

President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).

 

 

 

More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).

 

 

 

President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).

 

 

President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 2, p.196).

[Elsie]

...you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints"

[Pelham]

To Planet Kolob and Beyond!

Buzz Lightyear Romney

[Elsie]

But if Mormons become Gods of planets and then their children become Gods of other planets...

Who cares?

The BIBLE plainly states that there will be NO marriage in heaven.

Would not any rational person then figure out that the ONLY 'family' that will exist would be the Family of GOD??

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Romans 7:3

So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.

[longhorn too]

“Was Jesus a christian?.... or a Jew?..”

Jesus Christ was Jewish, those who are born again and follow him are Christians.

[reaganaut]

God is the one changing hearts and minds. We are just cracked vessels who are doing what He calls us to and sharing our experiences. God gets the glory.

[Elsie]

Matthew 22:23-33 That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 24 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for him. 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28 Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?” 29 Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

[right way right]

No their not.

But, their less annoying than many Catholics (Catholics are Christian) so, go figure.

Hell will freeze before I vote fo a Mormon.