James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well:
the devils also believe, and tremble.
The devils believe in God. They are seen in the NT knowing Christ
Acts 19:15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know
Something is obviously missing. The devils have a head knowledge and
probably a good definition since they have even been with Jesus.
According to LDS Daniel C. Peterson and Stephen D. Ricks the definition
is "Christian: anyone or any group that believes in Jesus Christ as the
Savior and Son of God."
The legion that said "What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of
the most high God?" they would qualify as Christians!
Anyway Ricks & peterson want the definition to be so inclusive and
BROAD as to not bar anyone. Yet the Bible tells us MANY are on the
BROADway to Destruction Few find the Narrow way to eternal life. MANY
will be told "depart from me I never knew you." "Depart from me, ye
curse d, into everlasting fire"
Rather than get into the definition game (exclusion by definition
etc.)
Have you read Robinsons book "Are Mormons Christian"?
http://www.mazeministry.com/mormonism/newsletters_articles/aremormonschristians.htm
I thought we might see what some of the GENERAL AUTHORITIES say.
They can give us authoratative information on Mormonism, we can only
hold opinions.
SAME OR DIFFERENT WHICH IS IT?
"Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are
called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New
Testament defines
Christianity." (Brigham Young, Mormonism's Second President,Journal of
Discourses 10:230.)
If all Mormons are Christians then all Christians are Mormons,
right?
LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie - "Mormonism is Christianity;
Christianity is Mormonism; they are one and the same, and they are not
to be distinguished from each other in the minutest detail ...Mormons
are true Christians; their worship is the pure, unadulterated
Christianity authored by Christ and accepted by Peter, James, and John
and all the ancient saints." (Mormon Doctrine, pg. 513).
THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE CHURCH guess which one you are in:
"And he [God] said unto me: Behold there are save two churches only;
the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church
of the
devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God
belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations;
and she is the whore of all the earth." (1 Nephi 14:10, see also 13:6,
14:3, 9; Alma 5:39)
WHICH ONE ARE YOU? IN CASE YOU ARE NOT SURE WHO THE CHURCH OF THE
DEVIL IS:
"What is the church of the devil in our day, and what is the seat of
her power?…It is all the systems, both Christian and non-Christian,
that perverted the pure and perfect gospel….It is communism, it is
Islam; it is Buddhism; it is modern Christianity in all its parts. It
is Germany under Hitler, Russia under Stalin, and Italy under
Mussolini" (Apostle Bruce R. McConkie Millennial Messiah, pp. 54-55).
"This is not just another Church. This is not just one of a family
of Christian churches. This is the Church and kingdom of God, the only
true Church upon the face of the earth..." (Teachings of Ezra Taft
Benson, p.164-165).
"the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth"
(D&C 1:30)
“Each of us has to face the matter—either the Church is true, or
it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom
of God, or it is nothing.” (President Gordon B. Hinckley. “Loyalty,”
April Conference, 2003. )
This Church is the only true and living church upon the face of
the whole earth .... there is no salvation outside the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Bruce McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, Page
670)
"I asked the Personages [God the Father and God the Son] who stood
above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this
time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)--and which
I should join. I was answered that I must join none of them, for they
were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their
creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all
corrupt;..." (Joseph Smith - History
1:18-19, "The Testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith", p. 3) also a
pamphlet in use by LDS missionaries
"the only organization authorized by the Almighty to preach his
gospel and administer the ordinances of salvation, the only Church
which has power to save" (Mormon Doctrine; 1977 ed, p. 136).
"We cannot accept that any other church can lead its members to
salvation." (The Masters Church, Course A, Mormon Sunday school text.)
Have we established that unless I join the LDS Church i can not be
saved?
