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I didn't say that Mormons don't believe that Jesus was a good man, or even a prophet (but they are )"not Christian."

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So just because they believe that Jesus is the Christ, and the name of the church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and their hymns are replete with Jesus as the Christ - and the Redeemer, etc etc - they aren't Christians?

Interesting rationale - too convulted for me to argue

You can go through a table of essential beliefs...with Methodists, Pentacostals, Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Baptists, etc. .. finding all the essentials they have in common.... and the LDS will apply different definitions to each of those beliefs.

The fact that the LDS have a different canon of scripture--books fully authoritative (and more-so) than the bible. You can surely claim that all the rest of Christians are wrong, and the LDS is right, however, the great majority of Christians today, differ with Mormons on essential beliefs. That is why the great majority of Christians do not consider the LDS legitimatly Christian. Any traditional theologian (the liberals don't count) within any of the above Christian denominations will agree with that assesment.

Doesn't mean LDS folk aren't usually fine upstanding moral people (as are a lot of Jewish people, Hindus, Buddists, (and even (gasp)lots of Moslems, along with a lot of other religions...), it just means that--given the historical and majority understanding of the word, Mormans are not properly identified as Christians.

Jesus, Himself, claimed that He and His Father were one. He alone is divine.

That is what Scripture says, but not what the Mormon Church doctrine says.

I am not here to argue, but to share that Jesus Christ is God's Son, One with Him, uniquely divine, sinless, and our Savior and Redeemer. We will not be like Him, but we will be with Him in Glory if He is our Lord and Savior.

Hopefully you will accept what I've said in the spirit in which it was given, and that will be the end of it.

But to the point of the thread, as I said before, I would not vote for Romney in a primary because of his politics, but would vote for him against ANY Rat in the general election.........even though he won't get the nomination, IMO.