[lit-ideas] Re: Comparative religion

> One could see how traditional versions of Christianity would exclude
> 'Mormonism' but Mormons themselves believe they are Christians...


Delegates to the United Methodists' national convention meeting in Cleveland on 
Wednesday 
said the LDS Church "does not fit within the bounds of the historic, apostolic 
tradition of 
Christian faith," and that Mormons who convert to Methodism need to be 
re-baptized. (...) 
Mormonism has "some radically differing doctrine on such matters of belief as 
the nature and 
being of God; the nature, origin, and purpose of Jesus Christ; and the nature 
and way of 
salvation."

The Methodists said Mormonism incorporates a "gendered, married and procreating 
god" with "a 
body of flesh and bones," and has a theology that "more closely resembles a 
tri-theistic or 
possibly a polytheistic faith" than monotheism -- worship of the one God. The 
Methodists 
also objected that "the Jesus of Mormonism is not co-eternal with the Father 
and of one 
substance with the Father" and that Mormons add other scriptures to the Bible.

The Presbyterian Church (USA) and Southern Baptist Convention have issued 
similar 
assessments of Mormon doctrine.

More at http://www.apologeticsindex.org/m04.html

Or google for "mormon cult"

Look into the details of what happens when a Mormon dies. That explains what 
they mean by a 
"Mormon Christ", and why the Christians reject Mormonism as a Christian 
religion.

yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com 

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