[lit-ideas] Re: Comparative religion

Me: "I"m a fifth seventh Roman latter day Mormon Baptist."
He: "Wow!" What do they believe in?"
Me: "Taking no chances."
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:

>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...
>>    
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>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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