A different Jesus? Are Mormons Christians?
Are Mormons Christians? Yes they are, according to the Mormons. But why many other Christians insist that the Mormons are not Christians?
I think that the problem is that those Christians thinks that they have the right to judge others. C. S. Lewis said:”It is not for us to say who, in the deepest sense, is or is not close to the spirit of Christ. We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge. It would be wicked arrogance for us to say that any man is, or is not, a Christian…”
So, those “Christians” are they really showing a good Christian example? Probably not, since they are judging mercilessly other good people. I hope they remember that they will be judged with the same measure they judge others, but I hope that they will be judged with more mercy than they use for the Mormons!
Anyway, what is it that makes these Christians nervous about the Mormons? What kind of Jesus or God do they like? Well, they like the God created by the early Christian councils when men tried to harmonize revealed doctrine with Greek philosophy.
You want to read something fun? This is what Celsus, the famous anti-Christian writer of the second century stated: ” The Christians say that God has hands, a mouth, and a voice; they are always roclaiming that ‘God said this’ or ‘God spoke’… I can only comment that such a God is no god at all, for God has no hands, mouth, nor voice, nor any characteristics of which we know. And they say that God made man in his own image, failing to realize that God is not at all like a man, nor viceversa; God resemble no form known to us…We know that God is without shape, without color…”
So, this is fun… the early anti-Christians closely resemble the current Christians in their attacks against the true knonwledge; the current Christians use the same anti-Christian reasoning against the Mormons. So, who are the most Christians, currently? The Mormons who believe what the early Christians believed, or the current Christians who believe what the old anti-Christians believed?
I think that the answer is easy. It doesn’t matter how you call yourself, if you use anti-Christian reasoning, you probablky are not a real Christian…at least from a doctrinal point of view.
However, I hope that the current Christians (who doctrinally resemble the anti-Christians of the past) will follow, honestly and sincerely, what they understand about Christ and God. If they will do it at their best, I am sure that the true God will teach them and help them understand that the Mormons really are (at least doctrinally) the truest Christians.
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Justin Martyr Jr on
Mon, 14th Jul 2008 6:22 pm
I noticed this also, after a study of early anti-Christian writings, & anti-Mormon, there’s seems to have been 2 restorations. A restoration of the early church in Mormonism; & a restoration of early anti-Christianity in modern anti-Mormon “Christians”! There is examples after examples of how they both parallel each other.