Are Mormons Christians?

[TedT]

ive yet to see anything correct on this topic
... by any denomination.

...which only means that you have yet to see anyone else interpret Christianity according to the ideas you have chosen to put your faith in.

 

[e v e]

...which only means that you have yet to see anyone else interpret Christianity according to the ideas you have chosen to put your faith in.

oh there are one or two but i only referred to sects/denominations in my post.

 

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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.

every sect has big ugly mistakes. Be it protestant, catholic or mormon, though mormonism is worse, and pure evil imo as a belief. That said, Only Christ will Judge who is His soul and judgment is of the soul not a particular sect... it is not the job of any sect or anyone here to decide who He returns to Eden Paradise.

 

[David Koberstein]

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.

I agree. Thank you for your insight and information.
Shalom

 

[Dizerner]

no they are not they reject the authority of Scripture for their own scriptures

 

[Pancho Frijoles]

I think Mormons are Christians.
That they do not share ALL your beliefs does not mean they are not.
I am ready to debate with anyone interested. I was a Mormon for about 6 years.

This is what you find in the LDS official website:

 

[mailmandan]

Mormonism says - for we know that it is by grace that we are saved after all we can do. (2 Nephi 25:23)

In other words do all you can or else the Lord will not be able to save you/salvation by works.

Yet God's word says - For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

 

[Pancho Frijoles]

Mormonism says - for we know that it is by grace that we are saved after all we can do. (2 Nephi 25:23)

In other words do all you can or else the Lord will not be able to save you/salvation by works.

Yet God's word says - For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

Hi Mailmandan

Among Christians there are several views on how grace, faith and works operate. Not every Christian holds the same view.
2 Nephi 25:23 just says that, after we have done all we can do, we still find our works insufficient and in need of the grace of God.
Considering that these words were supposedly pronounced before the appearance of Christ in the Americas, they sound much more Christian that any other passage you can find in the Old Testament on this topic.

For example, in the same chapter, few verses later, we read:
For, for this end was the law given; wherefore the law hath become dead unto us, and we are made alive in Christ because of our faith; yet we keep the law because of the commandments.
And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins.

I challenge all the readers to find in the Old Testament one single passage that sounds more Christian than this one.
It is as if Paul would have been transported back in time to the land of the Nephites.

So far, Mormons are Christians, even if we don’t share may of their beliefs. Please embrace them as your brothers and sisters.

 

[Red Baker]

Are Mormons Christians?​

That's like asking is the devil a Christian? It is a false cult, and can easily be proven so, if someone truly desire to know, then we would take time and prove it.

 

[mailmandan]

Hi Mailmandan

Among Christians there are several views on how grace, faith and works operate. Not every Christian holds the same view.

The truth does not come in versions.

2 Nephi 25:23 just says that, after we have done all we can do, we still find our works insufficient and in need of the grace of God.
Considering that these words were supposedly pronounced before the appearance of Christ in the Americas, they sound much more Christian that any other passage you can find in the Old Testament on this topic.

For example, in the same chapter, few verses later, we read:
For, for this end was the law given; wherefore the law hath become dead unto us, and we are made alive in Christ because of our faith; yet we keep the law because of the commandments.
And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins.

I challenge all the readers to find in the Old Testament one single passage that sounds more Christian than this one.
It is as if Paul would have been transported back in time to the land of the Nephites.

So far, Mormons are Christians, even if we don’t share may of their beliefs. Please embrace them as your brothers and sisters.

I embrace all believers who hold to essential Christian doctrines of the Christian faith as my brothers and sisters in Christ.

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[Burdock]

The LDS church has issued a statement of its creed for the general public. Although it has been changed at least once, this statement is regarded as “Scripture” and is published as part of The Pearl of Great Price. If you read thru them you will clearly they are a religious cult and not part of the Christian Faith.

This one stands out to me as it sounds a lot like Universalism.

Article 3: We believe that through the Atonement of Christ all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the [Mormon] Gospel.

This denies the biblical doctrine of salvation by grace without works and affirms that only through membership in the LDS church and obedience to the laws and ordinances established by them can people be truly saved.

I believe what the Bible says:

Yet we know that a man is justified or reckoned righteous and in right standing with God not by works of the Law, but [only] through faith and [absolute] reliance on and adherence to and trust in Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). [Therefore] even we [ourselves] have believed on Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law [for we cannot be justified by any observance of the ritual of the Law given by Moses], because by keeping legal rituals and by works no human being can ever be justified (declared righteous and put in right standing with God).
Galatians 2:16