[lit-ideas] Re: Comparative religion

This doesn't really seem much different from "Catholics don't think  
Protestants are Christian".....it's the exclusionary thing again, still.   Can 
a 
religion be a religion if it is not exclusionary?  If it does not  declare doom 
for 
any who do not follow its particular set of beliefs?   Divisiveness is the 
very Hallmark of Christianity -- Baptists declare Methodists  not worthy, 
Pentecostals declare Baptists not worthy.....it's My Truth or No  Truth.....
 
Julie Krueger
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> 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
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