Are Mormons Christians?

[Burdock]

In one way or another, they deny all of the beliefs that makes one a Christian. They deny that the Word who became flesh was unique in His eternality and coequality with God; instead, they make Him merely one of the spirits of men, gods, and demons that, they claim, existed coequally with God.
The following statements suffice to state the Mormon position.

Man is a spirit clothed with a tabernacle the intelligent part of which was never created or made but existed eternally—man was also in the beginning with God.

He (man) existed before he came to earth: He was with God “in the beginning.” Man’s destiny is divine. Man is an eternal being. He also is “from everlasting to everlasting.”

Jesus Christ is not the father of the spirits who have taken or will take bodies, for He is one of them. He is the son and they are the sons and daughters of Elohim.

We have a succession of gods from Adam down to Christ (his son) and his apostles at least all men, including Jesus Christ, being in the image of his father, and possessing a similar knowledge of good and evil.

If I can pass Brother Joseph, I shall stand a good chance for passing Peter, Jesus and the prophets.

As for the Devil and his fellow spirits, they are brothers to man and also to Jesus and sons and daughters of God in the same sense that we are.

There is no impropriety … in speaking of Jesus Christ as the Elder Brother of the rest of human kind.

This one is hard to believe but actually Mormons teach that Jesus was the natural born child of Adam and Mary.

When the Virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus … he was not begotten by the Holy Ghost. And who is his Father? He is the first of the human family.

Jesus our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden.

The Mormons believe that Jesus was not unique in His birth, boyhood, or manhood.

Jesus Christ, a little babe like all the rest of us, grew to be a man, was filled with a divine substance or fluid, called the Holy Spirit, by which he comprehended and spake the truth. From The Book of Mormon.

The Mormons see no more in the life of Jesus than in any of us. Elder B. H. Roberts, in a footnote to Joseph Smith’s King Follett Discourse, and quoting Sir Oliver Lodge as an authority on the subject, states,

His humanity is to be recognized as real and ordinary—whatever happened to him may happen to any one of us.
The divinity of Jesus, and the divinity of all other noble and stately souls, in so far as they, too, have been influenced by a spark of Deity—can be recognized as manifestations of the Divine.”

The Mormons see no uniqueness in the resurrection of Jesus Christ except in the fact that His resurrection preceded others. It has nothing to do with our salvation or justification. In Key to the Science of Theology, Pratt says,

Every man who is eventually made perfect, raised from the dead, and filled or quickened with a fullness of celestial glory, will become like them (the Father and the Son) in every respect, physically and in intellect, attributes and powers.

The Mormons teach that man is not saved by the redemptive work of Christ or through the shedding of His blood on Calvary.

I would say Mormons are definitely not Christians.

 

[Azriel]

Mormonism claims that it alone offers true salvation to the world. No other church on the face of the earth can tell a man or woman how to be saved other than the Mormon church. This teaching flows from its claim to be the only true church on earth; therefore, "There is no salvation outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."

I would definitely say they teach a false gospel.

 

[e v e]

i'm sure some are (christian)
...having no idea what they are into

just that their religion is pure evil

 

[Bob Carabbio]

I would say Mormons are definitely not Christians.

"MORMONISM" is definitly NOT CHRISTIAN - just another false CULT.

Individual Mormons, on the other hand, MAY HAVE BEEN Born again of the Holy Spirit by FAITH, and at least in the short term remain in the LDS System, because they haven't gained enough BIBLICAL information to understand how utterly meaningless the LDS Theology is.

 

[Burdock]

So, a Mormon that comes to the knowledge of the truth and leaves the Mormon faith can most certainly become a christian. But there is a danger in leaving the Mormon church. First of all you'll be ostracized and you need to move out of the Mormon community. But there's the Throat Slashing Ceremony, it's rather peculiar.

Throat slitting and gut slashing signs are still in today’s LDS temple ceremony.​

With all the talk about no more veiled faces and women no longer obeying husbands, don’t forget:
Thumb extended (still used today) represented the sharp object used as temple goers would mimic the action of slitting their throats and ripping open their gut. Hand in cupping shape? Yea, catching your entrails. Eww.

 

[TedT]

I agree...Mormonism is not Christianity.

 

[Aeliana]

I agree...Mormonism is not Christianity.

They absolutely are not christian. If you look at the history of how Mormonism started it parallels islam.

 

[Pancho Frijoles]

In one way or another, they deny all of the beliefs that makes one a Christian.

Do they deny with their deeds the faith in Christ?
That's what Jesus is interested in.

 

[charismaticlady]

There are freemasons and then there are FREEMASONS. What I mean is that those that are new see it as doing good works, but as you go deeper and deeper, and higher up and higher up in rank you learn the secrets.

That is the same with Mormons. There are some Mormon kids that I allow on my property to do their good works that I can't do. But these kids do not know the Mormon secret beliefs like Satan and Jesus are brothers. They don't know about their practice of Blood Atonements that is murder shedding their victim's blood to atone for their victim's sins.

 

[Bob Carabbio]

I would say Mormons are definitely not Christians.

Correct. The LDS is "just another" satanic cult started by a con-man.

 

[Aeliana]

You can't be a Christian unless you believe in Jesus.

So the real issue is which "Jesus Christ" one believes in. The simple truth is that Mormons may proclaim their belief in Jesus Christ throughout the entire world, but like countless other sects and cults they believe in a false, pagan Christ who has nothing whatever to do with the biblical Jesus.

The Mormon Jesus and the biblical Jesus are so incompatible that hardly a single resemblance can be found between them.

Mormonism maintains it believes and teaches the true deity of Jesus Christ. However, although it is correct that Mormons believe that Christ is a god, they do not in any sense accept Christ's deity according to Christian or biblical teaching. For example, Mormons teach or imply that a) Christ is a created being, b) Christ is a "common god" who is not unique in essence, but primarily in mission—in His function and priority, and c) Christ is Satan's brother. We discuss these in turn.

John Ankerberg and John Weldon, What Do Mormons Really Believe

 

[charismaticlady]

Edit: There are freemasons and then there are FREEMASONS. What I mean is that those that are new see it as doing good works, but as you go deeper and deeper, and higher up and higher up in rank you learn the secrets.

That is the same with Mormons. There are some Mormon kids that I allow on my property to do their good works that I can't do. But these kids do not know the Mormon secret beliefs like Satan and Jesus are brothers. They don't know about their practice of Blood Atonements that is murder shedding their victim's blood to atone for their victim's sins.

Not all Mormons believe the Satanic rites they practice, or even know about them. They believe in the KJV of the Bible, and learn the false stories about Joseph Smith's visions and the angel Moroni. I do NOT AGREE that those Mormons can't be saved who are raised on the same Jesus we Christians are raised on and have never even heard about His so called brother, Satan, and all the barbaric secret rites.

 

[e v e]

- no one is saved on the kjv , is the problem.
It is the sealed vision. Corrupt.

- being saved is being taken up out of here...
until then what we have is His promise.

 

[Pancho Frijoles]

You can't be a Christian unless you believe in Jesus.

So the real issue is which "Jesus Christ" one believes in.

The Jesus Christ that the vast majority of Mormons believe in is the Jesus Christ who call us to repentance and reconciliation with the Father.
The Jesus Christ who healed the sick and brought good news to the poor.
The Jesus Christ who obeyed his Father all the way to the cross.
The Jesus Christ who asked his disciples to love each other as the distinctive (I repeat: distinctive. Let me repeat it again: distinctive) sign of discipleship.

This is the Jesus Christ the vast majority of Mormons follow and honor. This is the Jesus Christ whom you and I follow.

The simple truth is that Mormons may proclaim their belief in Jesus Christ throughout the entire world, but like countless other sects and cults they believe in a false, pagan Christ who has nothing whatever to do with the biblical Jesus.

"Nothing to do"? That's a strong claim, Aeliana.
I would say their Jesus has a lot to do with biblical Jesus, even if we don't agree with them in some aspects.

The Mormon Jesus and the biblical Jesus are so incompatible that hardly a single resemblance can be found between them.

I strongly disagree, and here is the proof:

If their Jesus were incompatible with the Jesus held by, say, Baptists or Methodists, we would find Mormons living a life which would be opposite of the life Jesus taught us to live, by word and by example.
If I am following the right Christ, I will start producing the fruits of the spirit.
If I am not, I will live the life of the flesh.