I will never understand your double standard those who were not part of Jewish faith would have been considered gentiles,
When the Lord restored his Church again on earth anyone not being a part would be considered gentiles.
Just like many of you want to feel because the LDS doctrine does not meet you Tradition of men version in your mind the LDS are not Christians.
When it comes to Jews and Gentiles I think its safe to say that the Mormon church and their apologists definitely have a double standard in their brand of modern day mysticism beliefs. First, we have Joseph Smith declaring through revelation that Zion (location of the New Jerusalem where Jesus will reign for 1000 years) is to be built in Jackson County, Missouri; and he declares a specific border between the lands of US white settlers and American Indians to be the line separating Jew and Gentile with the Indians (called Lamanites) being referred to as Jews. See http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/57/4b in Latter-day scriptures for more on this. Next, we have sophisticated scientific research in the 20th century and the present plugging holes into the Mormon scriptural claims about the American Indians' ancestry. Finally, the apologists and defenders of Mormonism give more weight to the teachings of anti-Mormon and other non-Mormon scientists on the origins of the American Indians than they do the words of Mormon prophets Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Spencer W. Kimball, Ezra Taft Benson and even Gordon B. Hinckley and other present-day Mormon apostles. Go read what the so-called apologists/scholars have to say at FARMS (now called the Maxwell Institute). Its amazing how none of them think that the Book of Mormon is a record of the principal ancestors of the American Indians. And their scriptures introduction says, "they [Book of Mormon people] are the principal ancestors of the American Indians"(see http://scriptures.lds.org/en/bm/introduction). I stand all amazed at the double standards I see so often from Mormon apologists.
But alas I shouldn't be too harsh because I myself used to be a Mormon apologist. But I'm trying to repent now.
The reason is because they aren’t Catholic and they feel some form of inferiority, so they pick on Mormons.
It is the weanie-bully complex. Just a bunch of uncertain weanies... because they have soo little faith.