Am I a Christian?

Question

At the age of 14 I gave my life to the Lord Jesus Christ as my saviour and vowed to follow him and strive always to get close to him. I have done this in the best way I can. However, because the church I joined ten years later (after attending many others) doesn't teach the trinity, accepts other books alongside the Bible and has unique practises such as baptism for the dead, I keep being pestered by other Christians telling me I need to give my life to Jesus as my Saviour.

Try as I will, I cannot persuade them that I am already a Christian. It's driving me nuts! What do you think?

Answer 1

That depends on one's definition of a Christian, but in my opinion, it is anyone who believes in Christ and accepts him as the Savior. So you are one in my book.

When people place so many guidelines and restrictions on who is Christian and who isn't, they are bound to eliminate everyone but themselves.

By the way, I am of the same faith as you, and I accept Jesus as my Savior and Lord. So anyone who says that LDS don't do this...well, to put it simply, they are incorrect. People simply don't realize that Jesus Christ is the CENTRAL FIGURE of our faith. How are we NOT Christians?

Edit: are all the rude answers necessary? "You belong to a cult".."You are following false doctrine", etc...why is it a cult? Why is it false? Just because you don't believe it? Can't you be respectful? A simple "I disagree with your beliefs" is fine, but don't go pointing fingers and saying "You believe false doctrine!". That's disrespectful.

Answer 2

Nope. Mormonism is its own family of world religion and is further away from historic Christianity is than Islam ,another separate world religion,since it is henotheistic/polytheistic with its many gods and gods-on-the way and lack of an Uncaused Cause/Unmoved Mover Creator Supreme/MetaSupreme Being. Proxy Baptism of the Dead is odd but would not push Mormon practice out of the realm of strange practices done by Christians. Added public (to be accepted as doctrinal source or font)revelations are heretical,but what the content is in those revelations(if it is compatible with the Nicene Creed) would determine if the group was in the Christian orbit.
Mormons use Christian language but not Christian content or meaning in their basic view of the divine. The insistence that the Western Hemisphere was widely colonized by Iron Age Israelites has no demonstrable evidence and ,while mythological,is not an issue until it is made a doctrine as it is by the Mormons.
The only way to persuade Christians that you are Christian is for you to accept the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed. Trinitarian Christians see "Salt Lake' LDS Mormonisnm as closer to Wicca than to Christianity . Sorry about that.
Anyway, Mormons don't see Trinitarian Christians and their Churches or any Non Mormon group as being anything other than apostate . You don't recognize our baptisms,etc ,so why do you want our approval? Happy Day!

Answer 3

This sounds like Mormonism and Mormonism is NOT Christianity. I can't judge personally whether you are a Christian, that is between you and God. What I can do is tell you that Christianity is about a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. If you have such a relationship I assume that you truly are seeking the Truth and want to know it with all your heart. Baptism for the dead is useless [I'll show you the scriptures people use to justify this] and neither the Book of Mormon nor Doctrines and Covenants nor the Pearl of Great Price are scripture. If you honestly seek the truth, shoot me an e-mail and I can show you in detiail what the Bible says about all these things.

Answer 4

The Christian faith does not have a baptism for the dead. If they didn't accept Jesus while alive, they have no chance when dead. Apostle Paul said if any man preach any other gospel than what is in the Bible, God's Word, let him be accursed.

God is three different entities in the Bible with many, many different names. The Father God is Spirit and a consuming fire. The Son of God Jesus Christ our Savior who went to the cross for us and was resurrected to the right hand of the Father. And the Holy Spirit who Christ sent at salvation to teach us all things and live inside of us.

You can't see the Father because He is a consuming fire so the Father branches off and diminishes Himself to become Jesus so we can fellowship and communicate with a Living God and to have the Spirit of the Father in us who will teach us of Christ Jesus we have the Holy Spirit. Trinity is not mentioned in the Bible, but Matthew 28:19 says "baptising in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit."

You are listening to a false prophet who is teaching you false doctrine.

Answer 5

Accepting Jesus Christ as your savior defines you as a Christian....period. Your mention of the Trinity which includes "the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost," sounds like Catholic teachings and possibly you have also run into some sect which does not accept us "mackerel snappers" as Christian. What part of the Son in the Trinity did they fail to identify as Jesus H. CHRISTian? Age 14 puts you two years above the legal age of reason in many counties in the US so you have already made and stuck by your original commitment for several years now; not necessary to "re-new your vows," according to most Christian churches. Why bother to frustrate yourself, accept their deafness or ignorance and move on to your next Christian act, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."

Answer 6

You're not a Christian in the biblical sense! The Church of LDS claims that each male can be the Creator God of His own universe following life here, which logically means that if this has been going on for billions of years there must be billions -- even trillions -- of gods out there; makes Mormonism THE most polytheistic religion of the lot.

Secondly, they teach God was Himself once an ordinary man on a different planet, who himself was redeemed by the Christ of that planet and who then became the God of this universe who became Jesus here so followers could become gods -- etc. Yet God said:
'Ye [are] My witnesses, saith the LORD, and My servants whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe Me, and understand that I [am] He: before Me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me. (Is 43:10, KJV).

God states categorically in that verse that He, and He only, has ever existed as God.

'Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and His redeemer the LORD of Hosts; "I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and beside Me [there is] no God. ... Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared [it]? Ye [are] even My witnesses. Is there a God beside Me? Yea, [there is] no God; I know not any."' (Is. 44:6, 8, KJV)

These two verses, along with the bridging verse 7, make clear that God is eternal, and that He knows of no other God. Yet LDS founders state our God had to be saved by another God. Now, God claims there was no God before Him, and will be no God after Him; therefore either God is a liar (no chance!), or, God has forgotten (in which case He isn't perfect), or the LDS teachings are wrong. Guess which I'll go for!

The whole of Isaiah chapter 45 hammers home the point that there is no other (true) God.

Is 46:9, 10 says:
'Remember the former things of old: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else; I am God, and there is none other like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying "My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure"'.

It is clear in these verses that God says He is unique in all existence anywhere, forever. To deny that, and to hope that some day your husand/brother(s)/father/son(s) and any other male relative may one day be God in their own universes sets you on a collision course with the One True God, because you are denying His word. Please, please reconsider, and check out:

http://www.exmormonsforjesus.org/

http://www.thebereancall.org/node/2594

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-acb/acb-r002a.html

There are many places in the Bible which point to the Triune Godhead, including the OT, starting at Gen. 1:2, and also in the Psalms, Isaiah etc. See:

http://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t002.html

I'm not gloating about differences between us, I'm trying to show you how deceived you've been by the teachings of LDS.
I pray the Lord Jesus Christ will open your eyes.
May He bless you and your family as you ponder the truth.

Answer 7

I think you are a Christian, but you have absolutely no need to persuade anyone else you are, and it doesn't need to drive you nuts.

Just look at the nuts out there who have already tried to answer your question. Who wants to be like them (or me)? What a load of 'codswallop'?

I've never been able to understand the Christian meaning of 'giving ones life to Christ'. God made everyone different and he gave us 'free will' to shape our own lives. He surely doesn't want us back again, all neatly packaged and brainwashed. So I've not found it necessary to 'give my life to Christ'. Neither have I found it necessary to believe Mary was a virgin or that God decided what should go into the Bible, or that baptism has any spiritual significance. vWhat gives such a heretic the right to believe himself Christian? Had I been born in Thailand I would surely have been a Buddhist and follow the 'middle way', but I was born in England, and I believe in God, and I use the Christian Bible as my guide, and I am a sinner, so I am a Christian.

I think your problem is that you are putting your faith in your church rather than in God, and your charity to God before worldly charity. Put your faith and trust in God, and love your neighbour and all your problems will disappear just like that.

Answer 8

You said you're a christian, but I'm not so sure. The answer is for God to decide. It is that your church doesn't teach trinity, but believe in it or it is that they don't teach it and doesn't believe? I mean, trinity is the core of who God is. You can't have one without the other even though they are three in one. And as for the baptism of the dead? That should not be a practice of christians. I mean once one is dead nothing done for or to the person afterward is going to change his/ her outcome--whether the person is going to heaven or hell. Jesus Never practiced such a thing, so I'm not for it if you ask me.

Answer 9

The Mormon religion was founded less than two hundred years ago by a man named Joseph Smith. He claimed to have received a personal visit from God the Father and Jesus Christ and told that all churches and their creeds were an abomination. Joseph set out to impose a brand-new religion that claims to be the “only true church on earth.” The problem with Mormonism is that it contradicts, modifies, and expands on the Bible. Christians have no reason to believe that the Bible is not true and adequate. To truly believe in and trust God means to believe in His Word. And all Scripture is inspired by God, which means it comes from Him (2 Timothy 3:16).
Clearly there is only one way to receive salvation; to know God and His Son, Jesus (John 17:3). It is not done by works, but by faith (Romans 1:17, 3:28). When we have this faith, we will automatically be obedient to God's laws and become baptized out of love for Him, but not because it is a requirement for salvation. We can receive this gift no matter who we are or what we have done (Romans 3:22). “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Although Mormons are usually friendly, loving, and kind people - they are involved in a false religion that distorts the nature of God, the Person of Jesus Christ, and the means of salvation.

Answer 10

I believe that you asked Jesus into your life but I also believe that the church you are attending is not a Christian church. If you truly believe you belong to Him, then it is only logical that you should be in Christian fellowship. Fellowship with other Christians is not about what makes you feel good, but about obedience to God's word. You cannot be a child of Christ without also accepting His Father and His Holy Spirit. You may have asked Him into your life but you have not given your life to Him.

Answer 11

You may be a Christian, only you know if you asked Jesus to come into your heart, confessed your sins and turned from your wicked ways and asked Him to be Lord of Your Life and it says in Romans 10: 9 & 10.
However, I do not know what church you are going to you, but I can tell you it is not a Christian church - it is teaching false doctrine. In Revelation, it states that we are not to add to or take away from the Bible and that is what this church is doing. Also, Scripture plainly teaches of the Godhead: three in one, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And, the Bible does not teach anything about baptism for the dead. Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No Man Comes to the Father but by me." John 14:6. And Scripture also says that there will be many who come to Him(Jesus) and say that they taught and preached in His name, and He is going to say;"Depart From Me, I never knew you, you worker of iniquity", and send them to Hell. False teachers like the ones at your church are who He is talking about. You need to find a church that is grounded in the Word of God, and preaches the Word of God, and calls it what is is, "the truth without mixture of error". I pray that this helps you.