* Are fundamentalist Mormons Mormon? (Do mainstream Lds have a "right" to place a definitional boundary around who is "Mormon?"...The answer from Lds "prophet" Gordon B. Hinckley was that "there was no such thing as a fundamentalist Mormon..." Hinckley's answer was to even deny their existence!)
* If the Lds church is the "ONLY true & living church on the face of the earth" (Lds "scripture" -- Doctrines & Covenants 1:30) -- are do Christians have to become Mormons to live with Heavenly Father forever? (Mormon theology says "yes")
And, then there's this question: If Mormonism is 'anti-Christian,' then how can it be considered 'Christian?'
So...a plea for consistency here...
Anybody coming into this thread to rag on the question asked in the headline...
Can we count Catholicism in the non-Christian category?
Yes. Are the people who dog them on FR Christian? Im not sure.
I’ll give you the premise, but I find it to be more worthwhile, and bit harder, to articulate my reservations in the context of why I reject the one and embrace the other:
I have studied Mormonism carefully, for myself and unguided by its detractors and I find much to question, not the least of which is the unsustainable alternating claims of “restoring the Gospel” and relying on it for legitimacy. It’s a very pick-and-choose sort of amalgam that brings to me no light, no warmth, no hint of the truth that is eternally reflected by the very laws of nature and existence. The incongruency of its reason for being and its show of provenance is beyond good sense.
In turn, my own Christian faith is based on no leap into the darkness of doubt, no transitory feeling or warmth, but it is a light of wisdom that shines brighter and brighter the more I question, investigate, and demand that the Truth be more worthy and higher than myself. I seek to let it conform me to all things that are true.
The hard work is within my own journey of faith, not in mounting a defense of it. I trust it because it tells me what I know in my heart to be true: that I am desperately unable to keep it all together, to think my way into peace and salvation. If I could, why would I need a God? Or even a pretty story?
Conversely I know that if salvation is merely deemed to be “correct thinking” about God, then who will arbitrate such thought? Why not the next man who says, “god told me”? This is a deadly fallacy for any civilization, and one we are rapidly descending into.
Moreover, the entire arc of the OT and NT are of a perfect, unified story of how we come to find God. And how He came to find us. To pretend that it was somehow “lost” after our own liberty as humans was founded on its abiding principles [truth] is to set oneself up on shifting sands. And to set up one’s neighbor to say, “what’s the difference?” because non-believers are very astute in their skepticism. No wonder Jesus went to the lost sheep.
I know Christians are admonished by scripture to defend Christianity, and that means pointing out imitations when they crop up, so I understand having to clarify that Mormons aren’t Christians, something that has been pointed out since Joseph and the boys got their religion going. What I don’t understand is why Mormons want everyone to think they are Christian? It may have had its advantages when Christianity faced less antagonism from the the world, but now that Christians and Jews are once again enemy number one, it seems like Mormons would be celebrating their differences.
No.
Only the Bible says what happens thousands of years before it happens with accuracy and specificity.
Neither the Book of Mormon, nor the Pearl of Great Price, nor the Quran nor the Koran, nor the writings of Charles Taze Russel do this.
Only the Bible.
NOPE there will be NO “Mormans” in heaven! NONE!
Sorry, I hijacked the thread. Additional comments about Catholicism need to be sent to me in FReepmail.
Now back to the title of this thread. Are Mormons Christians?
The answer is an emphatic “NO.”