If Evangelicals want to target the Mormons for deviating from Christian teaching, then Evangelicals deserve to have the same scrutiny delved against their own teachings.
It’s the pot calling the kettle black.
St. Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Smyrneeans, 105 AD
“They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again. Those, therefore, who speak against this gift of God, incur death in the midst of their disputes. But it were better for them to treat it with respect, that they also might rise again. It is fitting, therefore, that you should keep aloof from such persons, and not to speak of them either in private or in public, but to give heed to the prophets, and above all, to the Gospel, in which the passion [of Christ] has been revealed to us, and the resurrection has been fully proved. But avoid all divisions, as the beginning of evils.”
The Evangelical denial that Christ is truly and corporeally present in sacrament of Holy Communion was unknown in the early Church except among the Gnostics.
Explain to me why the Ancient Assyrian Church of the East, which broke communion with the Catholic Church in 431 A.D. has a virtually identical doctrine regarding the sacrament of Holy Communion as the Roman Catholic Church despite having cut itself off at an early point in Christian history.
Perhaps then Evangelicalism is a form of Gnosticism because it seems to claim to hold some sort of hidden knowledge of how to properly interpret the scriptures that eluded the great fathers of the Church like St. Ignatius of Antioch who learned the scriptures and Christian doctrine from the apostles themselves.
If we target Mormons for believing they would become gods should we also target Catholics because they think they will become gods? After all, I’ve seen Catholics target Mormons for believing that yet the CC teaches that they will become gods also. Wouldn’t that be the pot calling the kettle black?
Aside from the fact that Ignatius’ writings are forgeries foisted upon your religion, does you religion consider those writings to be equal with God Holy Scripture???
The Assyrians are NESTORIANS. Not a good example to use.