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by JP1967 on December 2nd, 2003

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Is Mormonism considered a Christian religion?

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  • by Anonymous on September 18th, 2005

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    It is amusing to watch the argument on this issue. The simple answer is that yes, Mormons are Christians, but not the same kind of Christians as, say, Baptists or Eastern Orthodox. But then, Baptists aren't the same kind of Christians as Eastern Orthodox or Presbyterians. Each of the hundreds of separate sects of the Baptist version of Christianity has separate doctrines and practices, much less the thousands of different Christian denominations worldwide.

    If Tritnitarianism is necessary for a church to be "true" Christianity, then not one of the original Apostles was a "true" Christian, as this is a 4th Century doctrine. This points up the fact that the definition of Christianity can always be tightened up to exclude anyone except the one setting the definition. For that matter, the "-ian" suffix means "coming from," and none of the Protestant sects comes from Christ -- all are breakaways from the Catholic ("universal") church, which itself was formed by bringing together many separate churches about 1900 years ago.

    Mormons believe that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints truly "comes from" Christ as a restoration of original doctrine and authority, and is the only such church in the world (and if the Joseph Smith story is true, Mormons are correct in this). They also believe that other churches which follow the New Testament are also Christian to one extent or another, just not as accurate in their beliefs. In fact, with the doctrines which have been added into Christianity -- including Trinitarianism, or Biblical "perfection" -- it can be argued successfully that mainstream Christianity is not truly Christian.

    The fact is that every Christian church considers itself "more" Christian than all of the thousands of other Christian faiths. The more rabid of their followers will go out of the way to attack other churches, usually from a fear of being wrong or a knowledge that they don't live as Christlike a life as the members of the "cult" that they are attacking.

    Soon enough, Christ will come back and tell us HIMSELF who is and is not a Christian. Until then, it's just personal opinion.

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    • Finally. An intelligent answer that does not sound like members of one Christian sect rubbishing another.

      RedJohn

      by RedJohn on November 21st, 2005

    • This is True, We do not conform to Constantines = Holy Trinity = All else is Heresy/Blasphemy.

      Anonymous

      by Anonymous on December 11th, 2005

    • To make this answer make any sense, it is probably better for you to give your definition of "Christian".

      pareto

      by pareto on December 10th, 2005

    • The best answer here.

      nowImconfused

      by nowImconfused on June 28th, 2007

    • Accept the Catholic church wasn't formed 1900 years ago, it was about 1700 years ago, and Catholic literally means Universal. They created one 'Universal' faith that Christians and Pagans and Jews and all could tolerate, but in the doing, they gave up many things of the true church, that was one of the key parts of the apostacy.

      WishUponAStar

      by WishUponAStar on July 8th, 2007

    • I think it is important to note that Catholics believe they were not formed 1700 years ago, they believe their church started with Christ's earthly ministry, and in respect to the promise made to Peter that the gates of hell would not prevail against it has remained on the earth since that time. To Catholics the counsil of Nicea was not a starting of their church but a refining of their creeds and doctrines.
      So how has the church survived, and prevented the gates of hell from prevailing? Was it through an unbroken succession of popes from Peter to today? Or was it from a restoration of priesthood authority as Peter passed on keys he recieved from Christ to the prophet Joseph Smith?
      That... is a very important question, worthy of prayer I would suggest.

      John Cox will be back April 6th 2013

      by John Cox will be back April 6th 2013 on September 15th, 2009

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