Not technically. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a Protestant is "a member of a Western Christian church whose faith and practise are founded on the principles of the Reformation, especially in the acceptance of the Bible as the sole source of revelation, in justification by faith alone, and in the universal priesthood of all the believers." While the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does admire and recognise the works of the reformers, it is not founded on principles of the reformation.

Kim's answer of this question is a pretty good one. However, I would refer you to an answer I gave to a similar question in the Christianity:Denominations forum. This summerizes the basic devision in Christian denominations. http://www.answerbag.com/a_view.php/8894

No. Protestant religions are those that trace their history to the Protestant Reformation. Mormons (though this may be hotly debated) stand alongside the Seventh-Day Adventists, Christian Scientists, and Jehovah's Witnesses (among others) in the American "Restorationist" movement.

Dictionary Definition of a Protestant : 1. one who makes or enters a protest 2. a member of any of several church denominations denying the universal authority of the Pope and affirming the Reformation principles of justification by faith alone, the priesthood of all believers, and the primacy of the Bible as the only source of revealed truth 3. broadly : Christian not of a Catholic or Eastern church Under these definitions 1. An LDS member would be a protestant when making a protest 2. An LDS member is not a protestant under this definition. They do not believe in principle of justification by faith alone, the priesthood of all believers or the primacy of the Bible as the only source of revealed truth 3. If a Christian is defined by one who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ, than an LDS member would be considered a Christian as they are not of a Catholic or Eastern church. LDS members do not consider themselves to be in the Protestant church category.

No. I was a Protestant, now I am a Latter-day Saint. I have been a Christian all along, but there are some major doctrines lacking or misunderstood in Protestantism, and spurious doctrines instilled. The difference is plain. For a church to be Protestant, it must be descended from the Catholic or Orthodox churches and rooted in their practices. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a new planting from the original tree of Christianity, and thus closer to original doctrine than Protestantism. A number of Protestant doctrines not found in the Bible are, first, that of Biblical perfection -- that is, that the Bible is complete, inerrant and accurate. No passage in the Bible makes this claim. Next comes the concept of the Trinity (that God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost are all the same), which is in direct violation of Biblical doctrines and the clear statements of Jesus Christ himself. The most basic doctrine, and perhaps the most absurd, is that a branch from a poisoned tree is somehow more true to the roots. The basis of Protestantism is that the Roman Catholic Church fell into apostasy, losing the authority of Christ. This part is demonstrably true, but breaking away and carrying various of the doctrines of men upon which the RCC is built does not bring that authority back, so Protestants claim that there is no authority needed, anyone can speak for Christ -- as long as what that person says fits in with whatever doctrines the Protestant sect considers true (all others are "cultism"). This tendency is obvious in the attitudes displayed by various of the Protestant cultists who post anti-Mormon comments.

NO! The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is neither Catholic nor Protestant. Nor does either faction claim we are or were a part of them. The fact is our founder, Joseph Smith, was never a member of any Church, prior to setting up the LDS Church. Therefore he did not protest from any Church. Nor did he borrow any of the principles or doctrines from any other Church. He, through the Lord Jesus Christ, set up this Church from scratch, through a process called Restoration. And today we believe in continuing revelation from Jesus Christ. whew6

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It is a Christian denomination . Protestants are denominations of the Reformation Church founded in the 16th Century.

LDS is to Christianity as Christianity is to Judaism.

No it is prtestant, not is it even Christian. It is an off-shoot from Christianity. If you want information on this most pagan cult, there is a lot out there. Do not let the LDS tell you it is all Anti-Mormon. All you need to do is compare there beliefs with that of Gods word. The Holy Bible is as true today as it was yesterday. Do not allow the Mormons to twist Gods truth. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Are+Mormons+Christian&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq= Jefflindsay lds.org lightplanet these are Mormon driven apologist and official Mormon Doctrine sites. They are exactly what God warned us about. Isaiah 44:25 who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who overthrows the learning of the wise and turns it into nonsense, Jeremiah 14:14 Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds. There are many verses depicting the coming of such an abomination as that which Joseph Smith created. irr carm exmormon these are sites that depict the truth about Mormons. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MORMON THEOLOGY The Church has 4 Standard Works that are authoritative: The Bible (in so far as it is translated correctly), the Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price. Speeches and writings of the current president of the church are also authoritative. The Bible is far below the other standard Works because it is full of errors (wherever it disagrees with Mormon doctrine). CHRISTIAN RESPONSE The only authoritative scriptures given by God are the 39 books of the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible. God promised to preserve his word and to suggest that the Bible was mistranslated and corrupted would be to call God a liar. If God were to give additional revelations they would be consistent with any prior revelations thus eliminating Mormon writings, since they stand in direct opposition to the divine revelation that has already been given in the Bible. One God MORMON THEOLOGY There are many Gods. Brigham Young-Journal of Discourses 7:333 "How many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not Gods. CHRISTIAN RESPONSE There is only one God. (Dt 6:4; 33:26-27; Isa 43:10; 45:5; 46:9; 1Ti 2:5) The Nature of God MORMON THEOLOGY God the Father is an exalted man (a man who has progressed to godhood) with a body of flesh and bones. Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 1973 ed., p. 346 - "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man...I say, if you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in a form-like yourselves in all the person, image, and very form as a man." D & C 130:22 "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also." CHRISTIAN RESPONSE The Bible is most explicit in stating that God is not a man (Nu 23:19; 1Sa 15:29; Hos 11:9). God the Father, the eternal God is Spirit (Isa 55:8-9; 6:1-5; 57:15; Pss 90:2; 113:5-6; 123:1; Jn 4:24: 8:23) Jesus said that a spirit does not have flesh and bones (Lk 24:39) MORMON THEOLOGY God the Father became a God after learning truth, aggressively pursuing godhood, and being obedient to the laws of the gospel. CHRISTIAN RESPONSE God the Father has always existed as such (Dt 33:27; Isa 43:10; 44:6; 45:5, 21; 46:9; Mal 3:6; 1Co 8:4; 1Ti 2:5; Rev 1:8; 21:6; 22:13). As Psalms 90:2 and 93:2 state, God has been God "from eternity to eternity." MORMON THEOLOGY God the Father has a wife, through whom he procreates spirit children. "Implicit in the Christian verity that all men are the spirit children of an Eternal Father is the usually unspoken truth that they are also the offspring of an Eternal Mother. An exalted and glorified Man of Holiness (Moses 6:57) could not be a Father unless a Woman of like glory, perfection, and holiness was associated with him as a Mother" (Mormon Doctrine, 1977 ed., p. 516) CHRISTIAN RESPONSE The Godhead determined to make man in their image, not to procreate spirit children (Ge 1:26). Nowhere does Scripture even hint at the existence of an Eternal Mother. MORMON THEOLOGY God is not a uniquely eternal being. All spirit is self-existent matter and is eternal (without beginning or end). Such "matter (called intelligences) sometimes becomes organized into a spirit being through birth to celestial parents. Then that spirit is born through human parents on earth. Like all people, God took this course and eventually reached Godhood. God would stop being God if intelligences stopped supporting him as God. (D&C 93:29, 33; Abraham 3:18-23; Mormon Doctrine, 1977 ed. p. 751) CHRISTIAN RESPONSE God is not God unless He is all-powerful, all knowing, absolutely in charge. If God exists only as God because of support given from other intelligent forms, He is not God at all (Isa 44:6; Ro 3:4; Rev 1:8; 21:6; 22:13) God is unchangingly omnipotent, and no purpose of His can be thwarted. He is not overruled by anyone (Ge 17:1; Job 36:22-23; 42:2; Isa 14:26-27; 40:13-14; Jer 32:27; Mt 19:26; Lk 1:37; Ac 17:24-25; Rev 19:6) Man and Sin MORMON THEOLOGY Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be" (D&C 93:29) Life, intelligence, mind, the 'light of truth' , or whatever name one gives to the center of the personality of man, is an uncreated, eternally existent, indestructible entity...In the first stage, man was an eternally existent being termed an intelligence...The next realm where man dwelt was the spirit world....eternally-existing intelligences were clothed with spirit bodies...numerous sons and daughters were begotten and born of heavenly parents into that eternal family in the spirit world" (The Gospel Through the ages, pp.126-127) CHRISTIAN RESPONSE Man is a finite being, not an eternal one. The first man Adam was created at a specific point in time (Ge 1:26-27; 2:7; 1Co 15:45-49). Man did not exist in the beginning when God was creating the universe, for if he had, God's question to Job would have made no sense (Job 38:4). Man was created lower than the angels, so that David wondered why God is even mindful of him (Ps 8:3-5; 144:3). Not a single verse in the Bible suggests that God has a wife, but Isaiah 44:24 explicitly says that the Lord made all things by Himself. Moreover, several passages in Isaiah indicate that there is only one God and there is none beside Him (44:8; 45:6) or like Him (46:9). MORMON THEOLOGY "...these spirit children were organized, possessing divine, eternal, and godlike attributes, inherited from their Heavenly Father and Mother. There in the spirit world they were reared to maturity, becoming grown spirit men and women prior to coming upon this earth" (The Gospel Through the Ages, p. 127). "Jesus is man's spiritual brother. We dwelt with Him in the spirit world as members of that large society of eternal intelligences, which included our Heavenly Parents and all the personages who have become mortal beings upon this earth or who ever shall come here to dwell...Jesus was the 'firstborn,' and so He is our eldest brother" (Ibid., p.21) CHRISTIAN RESPONSE Jesus was and is Almighty God from everlasting to everlasting. He is the creator of all that exists and is "firstborn" over all creation in the sense that He is the preeminent originator of life and the universe (Mic 5:2; Ps 90:2; Jn 1:1-3; Ac 3:14-15; Col 1:16-17; Heb 1:2). This meaning for the word "firstborn" can be understood by comparing Genesis 41:51-52, which states that Manasseh was Joseph's "firstborn" son while Ephraim was the second, with Jeremiah 31:9, where God calls Ephraim the "firstborn." Obviously, "firstborn" does not always mean the one literally born first. MORMON THEOLOGY Death and sin came through the fall of Adam and Eve. But their deed was not actually a "sin." It was really a blessing because it enabled man to continue progressing on toward eternal life. "They (the Christian world) have been long taught that Adam and Eve were great transgressors...We, the children of Adam....should rejoice with them, that through their fall and the atonement of Jesus Christ, the way of eternal life has been opened up to us" (Articles of Faith, p. 476) CHRISTIAN RESPONSE Rejoicing is hardly the proper response to Adam's sin. Because of that sin, both Adam and Eve died spiritually and their physical bodies began to deteriorate. Eve was given pain and sorrow in child-bearing, Adam was required to work and sweat in order to eat, the entire creation was cursed, they were thrown out of the Garden forever, and the entire human race was destined to be born dead in sins and children of god's wrath by nature. To rejoice in the fall of man is to embrace Satan's lie. It was Satan who deceived Eve by convincing her that sin was good and would bring her knowledge and reward. (Ge 3:16-24; Ro 3:23; 5:12-15, 17-19; 8:19-22 Eph 2:1-5; 1Jn 3:4) The Doctrine of Salvation MORMON THEOLOGY Christ's death on the cross (the atonement) canceled the penalty of death imposed on ALL men through Adam's sin, thereby ensuring that all men would be redeemed - resurrected and given immortality (the reuniting of spirit with body)-as a gift. "If there had been no atonement, temporal death would have remained forever, and there never would have remained forever, and there never would have been a resurrection. The body would have remained forever in the grave" (Mormon Doctrine, 1977 ed., p.63) "Redemption from death, through the sufferings of Christ, is for all men, both the righteous and the wicked" (Ibid., p. 65) "Immortality is a free gift which comes by grace alone without works on man's part" (Ibid., p. 377) CHRISTIAN RESPONSE Not everyone is blessed through Christ's crucifixion. Only those who accept His sacrifice and surrender themselves to Him (Ro 10:9) will receive the benefit of Jesus' death and resurrection, which is forgiveness of sins (Ac 10:43) and salvation (Ro 3:24). Eternal life "in Christ," and not just simply eternal existence through resurrection, is the gift offered by God to humanity (Ro 6:23). This gift is obtainable only by grace through faith (Eph 2:8-10). Jesus' death serves to reconcile all believers to God (Ro 5:10). In dying, Jesus broke down the wall of separation between us and God that was present through man's disobedience to the Law (Eph 2:11-22)

Not by LDS. Many are wont to divide Christianity into "Catholic" and "Protestant" and in such a world anything not Catholic ends up being called Protestant. But that's a gross oversimplification. Many traditions are neither.

Well the Catholic Church had a schism which lead to many other branchs however the Mormon Church was created in the USA buy using Golden plates.

According to the Catholic Church, all Christian denominations that aren't Catholic are Protestant or Eastern Orthodox. Whether you agree or disagree, this is the belief of the Catholic Church.

Not at all. It might be called a Restorationist church. - Protestants are those whose began with the belief that the Catholic Church is the church which Jesus founded in his lifetime, but that it has corrupted or departed from one or more of the correct principle it should be following. Their response was first to protest these departures, and only when that did no good to form separate churches wherein these principles are correctly taught and practiced. - The "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints", nicknamed Mormons, is based on the belief that there was a total apostasy following the death of the Apostles. And that the true church with full authority has been restored to the earth by God through a prophet called by God for that purpose.

No. Mormonism is not Christian.

"### If the LDS Restorationist denominations are Christian, are they also Protestant? Again, the answer is a solid yes and no. Assuming for the moment that the LDS Restorationist denominations are part of the Christian religion: - Some Christians divide the tens of thousands of denominations which consider themselves to be Christian into three main groups: Roman Catholics, Protestants and Eastern Orthodox. within this classification, the Mormon movement would be considered part of Protestantism. - Some make four divisions: Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant and Roman Catholic. Again, Mormons would be considered Protestant. - Others define Protestantism as consisting of those faith group who trace their history back to the Protestant Reformation and Luther's 95 theses. Some include the Restorationist denominations as a fourth or fifth group. Within this classification, the Mormon churches would be considered part of the Restorationist group and not Protestant. - Some define Protestantism as consisting of those non-Catholic denominations that adhere to certain historical cardinal beliefs. Mormons deviate from these beliefs in a significant way and might not be considered Protestant because of this. - And of course, many people consider the Restorationist movement to be non-Christian. In that case, the question is moot. ### Court rules that Mormons are not Protestants: Normally, courts avoid ruling on the status of religious groups. However, a Benton County Circuit Judge in Arkansas and the Arkansas Court of Appeals were forced to do just in 2007 and 2008 during a child custody dispute. 1 In 2005, Joel Mark Rownak and Lisa Monette Rownak had agreed in their divorce to raise their children "in the Protestant faith," unless both of them agreed to do otherwise. Their decree reads, in part: "Based on the express agreement of the parties that the minor children be raised in the Protestant faith, the Court orders that each party hereto is enjoined from promoting another religious belief system/faith to the minor children unless both parties should consent." 2 In 2007, evidence was presented to Benton County Circuit Judge John R. Scott that Joel had changed his church membership from Southern Baptist to the LDS Mormon church. 2 Further, he promoted the beliefs of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to his sons. He led his sons in the reading of Scripture (presumably including the Book of Mormon), and in daily prayer. He had one son baptized as a Mormon, and one enrolled in Boy Scouts at the local Mormon church. Scott ruled that the father was in contempt of the divorce decree, since the judge determined that the Mormon Church is not part of Protestantism. On appeal in 2007, the father claimed that the contempt ruling violated the First Amendment's establishment clause that prohibits the state from discriminating against religious groups. Judge Sam Bird wrote the Appeals Court ruling. He noted that the father had originally asked that the Protestant requirement be included in the decree. The court affirmed the lower court ruling. They based their decision on testimony by the father who stated that the LDS Church was not part of Protestantism, and on information obtained from the LDS Church's official web site. They did not regard the father's claim under the First Amendment to be valid in this case." Source and further information: http://www.religioustolerance.org/ldswho1.htm

No. Niether Protestants, nor Catholics, nor any other Christian denomination even consider them to be Christian.