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In reply to the discussion: Anyone wanna disagree with this? [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)58. There is nothing in your link that suggests that Mormons call themselves "Christians"
Believing in Jesus as Christ makes you a follower of Jesus not a "Christian".
Before the Nicene conference there were Gnostic and Trinity Christians, afterwards a strict Trinity definition of Christianity was enforced and they became the Catholic, Protestant and AnaBaptist traditions.
Mormonism is basically a form Gnostic Christianity and as the Mormon up thread clearly states has a completely different systematic theology and a different Christology from the rest of the Church.
To call them all Christians is to eliminate the meaning of words. Muslims also believe that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary, was a Prohpet and the Son of God. Does that also make them Christians?
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I've never met a Fundie Protestant that thought Mormanism was a Christian religion
TeamPooka
Aug 2012
#38
I tend to think of an interview Wolf Blitzer did with Ralph Reed and James Carville a while back.
JoePhilly
Aug 2012
#39
I'd disagree with you ... I grew up with Catholics, graduated from a Jesuit University too ...
JoePhilly
Aug 2012
#41
Personally I am getting a little tired of religion in general being constantly attacked around here
Robyn66
Aug 2012
#61
There is nothing in your link that suggests that Mormons call themselves "Christians"
grantcart
Aug 2012
#58
I disagree; R's don't really want any of that stuff. Republicans are fascists. Fascists want power.
patrice
Aug 2012
#28