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 Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: Are Mormons considered Christian? |
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Ok, so I'm a bit curious what everyone else thinks about this subject.
On Facebook I have a ton of Mormon friends. But they usually put something like, "I'm a Christian, Mormon to be exact!", "Christian - Latter-day Saints", "Christian - LDS", "Christian - Mormon".
Is this a matter of an opinion or are they misunderstanding something? |
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Christian; believes the divinity of the Christ, or least that Jesus was the Christ/Messiah.
So yeah.
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In private, Mormons consider themselves different and better than Xians.
Baptists and most Protestants do not consider Mormons to be Xians.
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I consider Mormons to be not Christian for the same reason I consider Christians to be not Jewish.
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| SvZurich wrote: | In private, Mormons consider themselves different and better than Xians.
Baptists and most Protestants do not consider Mormons to be Xians. |
But that's all the same all across the board, look at Catlicks.
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What is funny is that so many Catholics deny they are Christians in their own ignorance.
"I'm not Christian, I am Catholic!"
"No dipshit, you are Catholic, the original and longest lasting branch of Christianity. It is the Protestants who are Christian but not Catholic. If you believe Jesus is the son of God and the only way to Heaven, you are a Christian. Get your facts straight, because the Protestants love to take your ignorant comments to "prove" they are the True ChristiansTM."
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| Mormons are actually a cult even the Pontif (Catholic Popes and such) deny their Christianity... Mormons dont believe Jesus was the son of God they believe if you walk through their temple you will get an invisible pear of protective underwear (I thought that, that was a bash untill I asked a Mormon Evangelist and found it was true!) yeah they aint christian not even most Protestants will say they are Christian lol not even Jehovas! |
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Whether or not someone is a Christian is a matter of opinion. According to Fred Phelps, nobody outside his tiny church is a true Christian. According to most Christians, Phelps and his followers are not true Christians. Thus for every person who considers himself to be a Christian, there is someone else who considers himself a Christian that will deny the Christianity of the other person.
So the original post then becomes kind of a trick question with no real answer.
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One thing for sure. They are human like the rest of the world. Perhaps a bit twisted up there, but human nonetheless.  |
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I think the answer depends on how the questioner defines Christianity.
If Christians are any believer in the teachings of Jesus Christ, then all kinds of New Agers could be included.
Catholics would tend to say that only Apostolic traditions are Christian in communion with the original church (Roman Catholicism; Eastern Orthodox; etc). Catholics will also recognize Protestants as Christians who have become theologically lost (basically).
Fundamentalists tend to say that anyone who believes differently from them are not Christians.
Protestants are all over the board, considering there are thousands of Protestant denominations in the US alone. Some consider all other believers in Christ as Christians while others are more discriminatory. This depends on how liberal or conservative the tradition is.
Most Catholics and Protestants will not likely consider Mormons as Christians, because Mormons require a book that Catholics and Protestants do not recognize. |
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No, Mormonism really differs too greatly from Christianity. It's not even passable as a Christian variation. There are certain criteria that must be met that Mormonism simply does not come close to meeting. You could say some aspects of Mormonism are based on characters in Christianity. I think that's about as far as you could really go.
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| Wondersoflife wrote: | | One thing for sure. They are human like the rest of the world. Perhaps a bit twisted up there, but human nonetheless. |
Kumbaya. What in the world is your point?
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| Nicomachus wrote: | | Wondersoflife wrote: | | One thing for sure. They are human like the rest of the world. Perhaps a bit twisted up there, but human nonetheless. |
Kumbaya. What in the world is your point?
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Just being logical here Nico. But then again, everyone is a bit twisted up there. |
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| Nicomachus wrote: | No, Mormonism really differs too greatly from Christianity. It's not even passable as a Christian variation. There are certain criteria that must be met that Mormonism simply does not come close to meeting. You could say some aspects of Mormonism are based on characters in Christianity. I think that's about as far as you could really go.
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Christianity has changed so much from the original teachings of the Jewish Jesus of Nazareth (assuming he really existed), that orthodoxy tests are quite amusing in my view.
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| antonivs wrote: | | Nicomachus wrote: | No, Mormonism really differs too greatly from Christianity. It's not even passable as a Christian variation. There are certain criteria that must be met that Mormonism simply does not come close to meeting. You could say some aspects of Mormonism are based on characters in Christianity. I think that's about as far as you could really go.
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Christianity has changed so much from the original teachings of the Jewish Jesus of Nazareth (assuming he really existed), that orthodoxy tests are quite amusing in my view. |
Well, all right I understand that. But in Mormonism we're talking about something that is wildly polytheistic. It is so far away from any of the other sects, it seems farfetched to call it Christianity.
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