Child asked if Mormons are Christians

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mormons are not Christians. The easy answer to your question is "No. They have their faith and their beliefs, but are not Christians."

This is to the previous PP who said they are Christians. According to my co-worker, who is a practicing Mormon.. they are not Christians.

[Anonymous]

Anyone who accepts Jesus Christ as his savior is Christian. That includes Mormons. Their doctrine may be different, but they believe that one point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mormons are not Christians. The easy answer to your question is "No. They have their faith and their beliefs, but are not Christians."

This is to the previous PP who said they are Christians. According to my co-worker, who is a practicing Mormon.. they are not Christians.

According to their church, though, they are.

http://www.mormon.org/faq/mormon-christian

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am wrong on the Mormon front? Interesting. I have researched this before and I can't find a main stream Christian denomination that considers them Christians.

They're not Christians. Some of that is revisioninist crap to neuter the Tea Party types so they'd support Romney

As an outsider on this debate: If your kid is not young enough to understand the nuance, please don't spout your church's specific beliefs in a way that causes trouble for your young child. We live in a very diverse society and your children need to learn how to negotiate that. Since you clearly belong to a church that favors relationships with Christians to relationships with nonChristians (or this wouldn't come up), do your children a favor and give them answers that enable them to live amongst a variety of people. Why on earth does your church care so much about classifying people into insiders and outsiders?


"Yes, Mormons believe that they are Christians, and it for God and not for us to say that they are not. They believe very different things than we do, but they do believe that Jesus died for our sins, so yes, they are."

That will work.

As for the Jews and Muslims et al: "No, they are not Christians, but they believe many of the same things we do about how to be good people. I don't know much about their beliefs, but I know that we share many of the same ideas about how to behave to other people. Why do you ask?"

That should do for the rest.

[Anonymous]

I am Mormon and consider myself Christian as do all other Mormons that I know. Please go to www.lds.org to get the true facts about Mormons rathwr than guessing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mormons are not Christians. The easy answer to your question is "No. They have their faith and their beliefs, but are not Christians."

This is to the previous PP who said they are Christians. According to my co-worker, who is a practicing Mormon.. they are not Christians.

Your co-worker is wrong. She is directly contradicted by the teaching of her own church. She should get back to Sunday School.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of church teaches this? It has never come up in our church.

You haven't been around enough fundies and evangelicals. Nasty judgmentalism rules the day.

Please just confirm you are equally nasty and dismissive when talking about Judaism and Islam, which have branches that are even more judgmental about beliefs and/or who counts as a member of the tribe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of church teaches this? It has never come up in our church.

You haven't been around enough fundies and evangelicals. Nasty judgmentalism rules the day.

Please just confirm you are equally nasty and dismissive when talking about Judaism and Islam, which have branches that are even more judgmental about beliefs and/or who counts as a member of the tribe.

Awww... what's the matter? You don't like it when people treat you the way you treat them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps your church should focus more on teaching children and adults to behave as Christ would want them to instead of teaching them to judge and discriminate.

[phone]. Well said.

[Anonymous]

The Puritans of the 1600s didn't believe the Anglicans were true Christian and vice versa. Neither of them thought the Baptists were true Christians. Names may have changed but the bigotry remains the same.

Who cares if the Mormons are Christian are not? Why would you belong to a church who makes it their business to define the religion of others?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps your church should focus more on teaching children and adults to behave as Christ would want them to instead of teaching them to judge and discriminate.

Like!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am Mormon and consider myself Christian as do all other Mormons that I know. Please go to www.lds.org to get the true facts about Mormons rathwr than guessing.

I might consider myself Napoleon, but that doesnt mean i get to sleep with Josephine.

Whether they consider themselves Christian is irrelevant. Whether they prioritize the teachings of Christ or some 19th century pervert is the key question here.

[Anonymous]

You can debate theology all you want, but it is absolutely inappropriate for a child to go around telling playmates who is or isn't Christian. This is what you should be teaching your child.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]Mormons are not Christians. The easy answer to your question is "No. They have their faith and their beliefs, but are not Christians."


True. Note also that is why mormons do not ever wear crosses as jewelry or lapel pins and do not have crosses in their churches. The LDS church discovered that if it wanted to be more successful in Latin America and in the USA converting former hispanic Catholics, then they had to include more emphasis on Jesus. So the PR that you see is, as a PP noted, much more Jesus-heavy than it was even a decade or two ago. But research it. Mormons believe Adam and Eve are our mother and father. Jesus is just one of God's son's, just like we are Adam and Eve's children. They do not focus on the cross or the Resurrection. Instead they pray (arms folded, not traditional prayer position) and meditate on Jesus' trials in the Garden of Gethsemene. After a life of attempted perfection on earth (doing a mission, getting a temple recommend, giving 10% of gross, marrying in the temple, having as many babies as possible), a good Mormon believes they will go to the top "Celestial" heaven. The rest of us are in the other two layers of heaven or in "outer darkness" (that's bad). When early wife and husband are joined in Celestial heaven and achieve perfection, they, like Adam and Eve, go off to another planet and populate just like earth - ergo not Christianity because it believes that every good Mormon will become a God or Goddess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can debate theology all you want, but it is absolutely inappropriate for a child to go around telling playmates who is or isn't Christian. This is what you should be teaching your child.

Yup. Why is this hard? Why is this controversial?