Why do so may people think that LDS people aren't Christian?

Question

I'm LDS and we believe that Jesus Christ died for us, and that he took on the sins of the world in the garden of Gethsemane so that we may repent and become clean before God. I consider myself Christian, but i live in the deep south (along the Bible belt) and i was told by a Baptist woman that mormons are not Christian because we don't accept Jesus Chirst as the savoir of the world. When i told her we do she said that we accept a different Jesus than her!?! I didn't know there was another Jesus Christ!?!! Whats the Deal??

Ed Decker is Not an author anyone needs to read to find out about mormons. He was excamunicated from our church because he was a high offical and he committed adultry which is a BIG NO NO. and just like if someone kicked you out of your church you would have hateful things to say about your church too. anyone that wants to find out anything about Mormons needs to go to this web site:

Answer 1

Many people believe that if you believe in something besides the Bible as the Word of God then you are not a Christian and you worship another Jesus. But I don't agree with them. There really is only one Jesus Christ and if you have faith in Him as your Savior, then you are a Christian.

Answer 2

I grew up in the South. The default religion in the South is Southern Baptist. They look with suspicion on Methodists and Presbyterians. Don't get them started on the Roman Catholics! They don't have a clue what Mormons believe.

Mormons are pretty far afield from mainstream Christianity, however, and they are not generally seen within that group as representative of Christian faith. All of Christianity is pretty odd to an outsider, but Joseph Smith's prophecies are downright weird. And then there's the polygamy history.

Don't worry, though. Mormons aren't alone. Other outsider groups include Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventists, and Christian Scientists.

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Answer 3

...If you reject Jesus as God, as the LDS folks do, you cannot be a true Christian - He claimed to be God, in several places in the Bible.
...Most cults deny the Deity of Christ, and may add books which widens the authority from the Bible alone to the Bible plus these other books.
...If you don't have the right Jesus and the right Gospel, the ones you have will do you no good.
...In 1 John 5:20 we read, "And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
...Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved." Acts 16:31
...Here is a good reference:
http://www.carm.org/cults/cults.htm

Answer 4

I'm not sure where the woman was coming from, so I cannot comment on what she said, I will share a few ideas with you,after all you did ask.

Mormons as you know have the book of mormon and they believe it is every bit scripture as the Bible. I would say to anyone who believes they have a book that is equal to the Bible, that they are wrong.The catholics add books to the original bible, wrong! The Jehovah witness's have re-written the bible to make it fit their God, wrong! There are many others that add to the Bible and in doing that, they have made a serious error.

So that's the general sense of where we are coming from in our view on mormonism, but there is more. Simply look at the facts and compare them to the Bible. If Mr. Smith was correct, then the Bible had to be wrong. His book of mormon contradicts the Bible in so many ways. He also adds new thoughts and ideas as to where Jesus came from and who Jesus and Lucifer actually are. So perhaps this is why the woman you referred to said that it is a different Jesus.

In addition, I don't believe that there are any Apostles living today or since the last of the original 14 died. I know that the mormons don't agree with that, so they create a new set of problems by believing the head of the LDS is an Apostle.

God made it easy, He gave us His completed word and that is all we need. You, as a mormon wouldn't be able to agree with that because if you did you would have to give up your religion.

Let me just say that I respect the LDS morals and the fact that most mormons want to live a clean life. I am sure that they would make good neighbors. But as a Christian, I am sticking to what my Bible tells me and I will not turn to false teachings, such as those of Smith and Young or any of your so called prophets or apostles.

My Jesus is the Lord of Truth!!! and that is what makes Him different than yours.

Answer 5

It's who you believe Jesus is. Mormon belief is that Jesus is your elder brother who pointed the way but He isn't THE WAY as we Christians understand Him. Jesus is the LDS saviour only in the sense that his death gives Mormons the means of returning to the god of this world, using secret keys, handgrips and passwords learned only in the Mormon temple. Most importantly, Mormons teach polytheism (a belief in the existence of more than one God) and every male Mormon is striving to become a God himself. This goes totally against Christianity which has one true God who is THE only saviour of the world. Mormonism is a cult, for proof ask for the complete list of Joseph Smiths prophecies and see how many came to pass. Do your research.

Answer 6

I think the whole book of mormon thing is a big part of it.
In revelation the bible says that no one should add to or take away from God's Word.

The fact that Smith or whoever wrote a whole new book kind of flies in the face of that.

I think also, the fact that the founders of your religion supposedly had some undesireable practices casts a negative shadow.

Answer 7

Just ignore them. God makes those decisions, not the people who teach the mormonism seminars in the baptist churches.

Why do christians think that god needs their help to condemn the rest of the world to h3ll? Is he/she/it incapable of figuring out where a person's heart is at? If so, it's a good thing there are so many people to tell him/her/it how it all works.

Answer 8

Hi Jujubee,

The LDS friends I have experienced are some of the most upright goodhearted people I have ever known and I have never taken any offense from them, including you.

One thing to consider about Jesus that the Bible tells us, (Which existed before Joseph Smith came along and is "Not" corrupted), is that He was not a created being like tha Angels and Satan.

Jesus always was and existed outside the realm of time. He was God manifested in the flesh when He walked this earth.

That's how He differs from the LDS Jesus.

Consider this scripture;

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John 8:57-59
"You are not yet fifty years old," the Jews said to him, "and you have seen Abraham!"

"I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"

At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.

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The Jews wanted to stone Jesus because by saying "I Am", He was declaring Himself to be equal with God.

In the old testament, when Moses asked God what he was to say to Pharaoh, God told Moses to tell Pharaoh,"'I Am' sent you"

The Jews knew this very well!

Blessings!

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Answer 9

Because Mormons ain't Christians. Just like Baptists, Catholics, Orthodox, Methodists, Lutherans, Pentecost, etc. ain't Christians. For they all pervert the Gospel of Christ for their own agendas, and I wonder if any of y'all have heard of I Corinthians 1:10-13??

I Corinthians 1:10-13 (KJ21)
10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11For it hath been reported unto me about you, my brethren, by those who are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 12Now this I say, when every one of you saith, "I am of Paul," and "I of Apollos," and "I of Cephas," and "I of Christ": 13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

"Denominationalism" was wrong nearly 2000 years ago, and it is STILL WRONG today!! Jesus died for 1 church, His church, not for many churches. We are commanded to have NO DIVISIONS AMONG US!!!!

Answer 10

Jesus is God. Your Church does not recognize him as God. You think him and Satan are brothers and when the guys in your Church die in the state of WHAT YOU CALL GRACE , He gets to go be a God of his own world just like you think Jesus is a God of his own world because he was good. This is totally bogus theology in most people's view and more importantly, in Jesus' view.