If Mormon's aren't Christian because....?

Question

We follow the "Mormon" Jesus....are other Christians not Christian because they follow "Paul's Jesus"?

Paul taught many things that go against what Christ said, and many of today's churches follow Paul...

http://30ce.com/paulinechristianity.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Christianity
http://essenes.net/romanchr.html
http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/marcionites.html

Mr. Taco, it does make sense...I'm saying people are being hypocritical....


But yes, we DO believe in Jesus and that He is divine, the savior and redeemer of the world. Etc. We ALSO read the KJV of the bible!! :O I know, shocker....we really ARE Christians!

ernezta you are SERIOUSLY mistaken!

http://mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/basic-beliefs/the-restoration-of-truth/god-is-your-loving-heavenly-father

and read the other links I provided......

know what you're even talking about before opening your mouth.

Preacher....where did Jesus say "the bible is the only word of God"?

Yeah...he didn't.

Answer 1

I think that as long as someone is whole-heartedly following what they believe to be the teachings of Jesus Christ, then they have the right to be called Christian.

Liesel.

Answer 2

Here's what I think is funny. In Roman times, Christians were anyone who believed in and followed Christ. By that definition, Mormons are Christian. No where did the Romans specify they had to also believe in the trinity. The Trinity wasn't even a taught belief in Paul's time. Show me one quote from the scripture where paul uses the word Trinity. That came about the same time the bible was organized into the form it is in today. So how is it that Mormons have changed the definition of Christian? They are following the original definition. Believe and follow Christ! It is others who have changed the definition and added the crap about believing in the trinity instead of believing that God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost are three distinct people who comprise the godhead. ANYONE who accepts Christ as their savior, and follows his teachings is christian. Mormons as a whole, do this.

Answer 3

Where the teaching and the followers end up is what matters. You can be anything you want....Even be a Jehova witness and if you believe in Jesus and that Jesus is our personal savior then you are in fact a Christion. You have the faith in Jesus that when you die you will be risen to the realm of heavens glory But by the grace of God all mighty. It is the end result and not the religion we chose. One thing is for sure though. If you go trhough life with a belief that Jesus is a myth? That heaven does not exist? Then you will surely perish. For only those that believe and repent thier sins in life will ever get to the Kingdom of Heaven. What path you choose is your own choice. They all like to have us believe there is only one true religious church that Christ wants us to belong to. That is so wrong. It says and this is what I believe in any religious faith.: Whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16. Nowhere in any Bible does it say especiall if you are a Morman. Or only pertains to catholics.. It means everysingle body in the whole world of hundreds of different faiths,. You guys and your one and only kind of church......Geeeze

Answer 4

I understand what you are saying. In our daily scripture study we have been reading Paul's epistles and I've been pointing out that certain scriptures seem to contradict each other. That is the danger of taking scriptures out of context. Even within Paul's letters, he seems to contradict himself. We just read in Phillipians a passage that fully supports James concerning faith and works, yet seems to go against his other writings about faith and not by works. You have to understand his context, his audience and an assumed knowledge on the part of the readers. You don't have to explain certain elements of a topic if those elements are commonly understood. That is the case with Paul's letters. He didn't have to explain the need for works because that was understood. He was trying to warn the people away from thinking that they could work out there salvation on their own without the help of Christ so he stressed that without the atonement of Christ, all of your good works would avail us nothing. The flip side of that coin is that the atonement alone will not save us either if we don't change our hearts to obey Christ and follow His ways, including giving loving service to our fellow beings throughout our lives. Thus we show our faith by our works as James said.

Answer 5

I always find it amazing that Catholics are allowed to see Catholicism in the Bible, even though there's passages that could be seen to imply that their faith is inaccurate... same with Lutherans, Baptists, etc.... but a Mormon claims to have a Bible-based faith, and he/she is shunned and mocked and called non-Chrisitan.

Regarding our worshiping "another Jesus"--
If you were to take any 3-year old's description of their father, and compare it to a description of the same man from his coworkers, what are the chances those two descriptions would match exactly?.... Hm, that's what I thought.

Just because our description of Him is different in some aspects from other Christians' description, doesn't mean we believen in a different Jesus... unless there were two men who lived about 2 thousand years ago, were both born of a Jewish virgin, then after reaching manhood, taught and traveled for 3 years, died on a cross between 2 thieves, and rose from a borrowed tomb 3 days later....
(Did you notice? This description is drawn directly from the Bible!!!! Ohmahgoodness!~ we actually may take the Bible as the word of God!)






Now isn't that interesting... Mighty Quinn asks a question, but he doesn't allow email or IM.... No matter- here's the answer.

The LDS church has ALWAYS seen those verses at the end of the Revelation of John as a warning from John to not change, alter or add to his revelation. If, as many Chrisians believe, this warning is to be applied to all sacred writings, then anything written after John received that revelation cannot be scripture... including many of Paul's letters. (Chronologically, most of Paul's letters were written after John received and recorded this revelation.)






I have one word for y'all....

Duck.

Answer 6

"Mormon" Jesus?
...there a 2?
"Pauls" Jesus??
(A)Gnostics refer Christians as Paulist or Paulines not Christian, since Paul was not present during life of this other Christ. Yet, neither were Mormons during their Christ,nonetheless, they have internal strife about it teachings and practice.
Mormons undercover Eugenics project with the Indeginous Americans. Past teaching are a bit questionable with DNA tracing exposing some its plagerist practices.
EitherJesus would be pretty peeved I'd think by now.

Answer 7

Protestant aren't christian because Martin Luther taught too many thing that go against what christ said and many of today's protestant churches follow Luther.

Therefore there are in fact no Christians because none of them actually spoke to Jesus Christ before when they wrote the bible. It is call hearsay.

You see the point here? Just because you do not believe they follow what you think they should be following does not make you more authentic. As long as they follow the teaching of Christ, no matter who pass it down, they are still call Christians.

Answer 8

If you read all of Paul's letters, you will see that he addresses NO ONE as "Christian". The Believers are all called "SAINTS". That's what we are supposed to refer to ourselves as.

We are Christian. I suppose you could call us Christians. But, that's not what we are supposed to call ourselves. Like the believers of old, we are SAINTS. We follow Jesus Christ. We find nothing in the Bible that we disagree with.

Answer 9

That doesn't make sense. You ask if Mormons aren't Christians then are other Christians not Christians, but you include the idea that Mormons are not Christians as the first premise of the question. That makes the question illogical.

Regardless, Mormon's believe in Christ's teachings, right? Then they are Christians in the most basic of sense by definition. They may be different than other Christians, but that does not make them not Christians.

Answer 10

Why can't people just understand us? You'd think anyone who listens to a testimony (especially Elder Holland's during conference) would finally get it through their thick skull that we ARE christians. The entire basis of our religion is founded upon the Savior and His sacrifice for all of mankind! Sheesh, why do people have to be so dumb?