Is Mormonism Christian?
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Is Mormonism Christian? Who gets to decide the definition of Christian?
From what I understand, Mormons consider themselves to be Christian. But Christian churches and denominations do not consider Mormonism to be Christian.
But in the context of world religions, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist - don't Mormons fall into the Christian category?
Is it all relative? Are we doomed to listen to Christians and Mormons argue for all eternity?
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Originally posted by Succatash:
Is Mormonism Christian?
Yes, though definitely a third-party revision of the rules.
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Who gets to decide the definition of Christian?
Comparative Theology scholars.
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From what I understand, Mormons consider themselves to be Christian. But Christian churches and denominations do not consider Mormonism to be Christian.
In much the same way that there are many people who do not consider Catholics to be Christian.
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But in the context of world religions, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist - don't Mormons fall into the Christian category?
Yes.
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Is it all relative?
Yes. Mormonism is at least an Abrahamic religion if not a variant of Christianity.
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Are we doomed to listen to Christians and Mormons argue for all eternity?
I'm up for theocide if you are but otherwise yes we are doomed.
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"In much the same way that there are many people who do not consider Catholics to be Christian."
I've never heard of that. Who says Catholics aren't Christian? I'm fairly certain that all the Christian Protestant denominations accept the Catholic baptism and consider it valid. But none of them accept the Mormon baptism.
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They worship Jesus. Seems clear-cut to me. I see the refusal of other denominations to recognize them as Christian as strictly territorial.
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Where the Mormon religion differs in the eyes of the Mormons is that a family whose name I cannot remember escaped to South America on a boat per God's instructions after they murdered someone who persecuted them. Cut to a few generations after the crucifixion of Christ and his resurrection he told one of his disciples that there was another flock for him to teach to and in the eyes of the Mormons that other flock was the descendents of the family who escaped to South America, and thus the New Testament to Christ.
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Originally posted by Storymark:
They worship Jesus. Seems clear-cut to me. I see the refusal of other denominations to recognize them as Christian as strictly territorial.
This seems like the only reasonable way to define Christianity. If they believe that Jesus was the son of God, their Christians.
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Reminds me of Scientology, but based on Christ instead of space aliens.
Only knew 1 family of Mormans, and that was when I was a kid, growing up. Decent enough , but I thought it odd they couldn't drink sodas. And they had a large family, so I guess they're kinda like Catholics.
Least that's how I saw them.
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I was engaged to a Mormon woman and converted to their faith for a short while, but after my relationship with the woman broke up so did my relationship with the church. I went back to being a Lutherin for a while but now I just consider myself a Christian and do not go to any churches at all.
While in College and studying World History I discoved that one of Christ's lessons was stricken from our bible because it taught that churches were unimportant. If I remember correctly Christ said something to the effect that to be a Christian all one needed was the spirit of Christ in their heart.
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Quote:Reference Gospel of Thomas the Doubter.
Originally posted by rallem:
While in College and studying World History I discoved that one of Christ's lessons was stricken from our bible because it taught that churches were unimportant. If I remember correctly Christ said something to the effect that to be a Christian all one needed was the spirit of Christ in their heart.
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The Gospel of Thomas is a manuscript containing a collection of sayings of Jesus that was discovered among a hoard of ancient manuscripts at Nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945. There are references to the work in early Christian writings, but historians assumed it had been lost. The writing is not a "gospel" in the strictest sense, because there is no connecting narrative about the life of Jesus, no summaries of his teachings, and no theological interpretations and commentary, as for example in the Gospel of John. Thomas is simply a list of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus (called logoi, "words") not arranged in any chronological or topical order. Some of the sayings closely parallel sayings that appear in the Gospels, some are similar, and nearly half appear nowhere in Scripture.
http://www.cresourcei.org/thomas.html
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3. Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the (Father's) kingdom is within you and it is outside you.
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html
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1) George Bush thinks he gets to decide what is Christian.
2) Mormons fall into the category of door to door salesmen; They often get mistaken for door to door vacuum cleaner sales people.
3) You don’t have to listen to them for all eternity; just don’t open your door when they ring the bell.
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