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LDS says other Christian denominations are "apostate". Below are some quotes:

Christianity was declared by Mormon president John Taylor to be... "a perfect pack of nonsense …a sounding brass and a tinkling symbol; it is as corrupt as hell; and the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work… - Journal of Discourses vol.6, p.167."

Joseph Smith claimed that he was commanded in a vision of God and Jesus not to join any church:

"... for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: "they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof. - Joseph Smith - History 1:19."

In truth, they regard the Bible as unreliable and corrupted by apostate Christendom. One early Mormon leader stated,

"The Bible …is not the word of God, but the word of uninspired translators - Pamphlets of Orson Pratt pp.70-71."

Joseph Smith declared that the Book of Mormon is,the most correct of any book on earth …and a man would get nearer God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. The Book of Mormon itself has this to say about the Bible:

"... for behold they have taken away from the gospel of the Lamb many parts which are plain and most precious; and also many covenants of the Lord have they taken away. And all this have they done that they might pervert the right ways of the Lord, that they might blind the eyes and harden the hearts of the children of men. - 1 Nephi 13:26-27."