Evangelical: I’d like to tell you about Mormonism.
Mormon: Oh, are you a former member?
Evangelical: No.
Mormon: Have you read the Book of Mormon?
Evangelical: No.
Mormon: Doctrine & Covenants?
Evangelical: No.
Mormon: Pearl of Great Price?
Evangelical: No.
Mormon: General Conference?
Evangelical: No.
Mormon: Official Church publications?
Evangelical: No.
Mormon: Then where did you learn what Mormons believe?
Evangelical: A guy on YouTube who learned it from another guy on YouTube who learned it from an anti-Mormon website in 2007.
Mormon: Ah. Please continue explaining my religion to me.
Now that the "Mormons aren't Christians" bandwagon is slowing down (or maybe I'm just not paying attention to it anymore), I must say that I've once again come out the other side with a renewed zeal and love for my faith.
I’ve had 10,000 Christians tell me I’m not a Christian today.
And not one of them has invited me to their church.
You guys are terrible at missionary work.
Let me get this straight...
Your argument is "You disagree with my creed, therefore you're not Christian."
😂
The earliest Christians didn't believe in the Nicene Creed because it didn't exist for centuries. The word "Trinity" isn't in the Bible. The Nicene formulation isn't in the Bible. Yet you're acting as though acceptance of fourth-century philosophical definitions is the test of Christianity.
Latter-day Saints worship Jesus Christ, pray in His name, believe He is the divine Son of God, believe He died for sins, rose from the dead, and is the only source of salvation. Those are Christian beliefs.
What you're really saying is that Christians must accept your interpretation of Christianity. That's a denominational claim, not an objective fact.
And the irony is that if being Christian is determined by post-biblical creeds rather than loyalty to Christ, then you've made the creed the center of Christianity instead of Christ.
You can say Latter-day Saints aren't Nicene Christians. That's fair.
But pretending that belief in Jesus Christ somehow doesn't count as Christianity because it differs from your theology is just sectarian arrogance dressed up as certainty.
Show me in the Bible where it says the thief
- Never fasted
- Never baptized
- Never performed any works
No man of Sola Scriptura can do that.
The thief on the cross is your favorite story because it carries all the weight for your apostate views.
The Lord expects us to be peacemakers.
Difficult as it may seem to be, we have the responsibility to pray for those who may persecute us, as Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount.
We need to learn to leave judgment to Him.